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Webinar: The Ethics of Cure Research

The HIV cure research field presents new challenges to study conduct, design, risk and a host of other issues — scientific, biological, social, ethical and regulatory — that many stakeholders are grappling with. This module will begin to unpack some of the ethical issues associated with HIV cure research.

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Webinar: Pediatric HIV Cure Research

The case of the “Mississippi child” has intrigued scientists since the case was first announced as “cured” in 2013. After the Mississippi child rebounded after two years of remission little has been mentioned about pediatric HIV cure research in the media. This webinar answered the essential questions about the state of the research and discussed the opportunities and challenges in pursuing curative strategies in pediatric populations.

Materials from additional webinars in the Cureiculum series are available, click here.

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Webinar: Operationalizing Ethics – A focus on informed consent

Professor Gail Henderson, PhD describes what regulatory processes are in place to keep participants in HIV cure research safe. In this webinar, she described the relationship between informed consent and ethical research, identified challenges of discussions around risks and benefits and provided points of considerations for the informed consent process.

Materials from additional webinars in the Cureiculum series are available, click here.

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Before the Pen Hits the Pad: PrEP Education for Health Care Providers

The US CDC estimates that nearly 500,000 women in the US could benefit from using PrEP. But women’s uptake of PrEP is small compared to men’s because most women who might want it have never even heard of it. One of the most effective ways to raise most women’s awareness of PrEP is to get their health care providers (usually family planning clinics) talking to them about PrEP.

In this webinar we explored the education that needs to be done among those health care providers to make this happen and what is being done to be prioritize it, especially by federal agencies, state and local health departments.

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New Data, New Questions: An Update on Hormonal Contraception and HIV

AVAC, in collaboration with ICW East Africa, hosted a webinar on the most recent data regarding hormonal contraception and HIV. The call, moderated by ICW-EA, featured a number of resource people to address the following:

  • A summary of the recently released systematic review on hormonal contraception and HIV.
  • Updates from the World Health Organization on actions planned and underway related to this important question.
  • Reflections from investigators involved in the ongoing ECHO trial that is studying three different contraceptive methods and their impact on the risk of acquiring HIV.
  • The civil society view from the HC-HIV Advocacy Working Group—an issue-focused platform of African women advocates and their allies, convened by AVAC and ICW-EA.

Webinar Recording

A recording of the webinar is available here. The slides are available to download as well—click here.

Background

For background on this topic, please see the following resources:

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Webinar — VMMC: New mathematical models for strategic planning

This webinar will officially launch the newly released PLOS One Collection, “Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) for HIV Prevention: New Mathematical Models for Prioritizing Sub-Populations by Age & Geography.”

In the first half of the webinar, presenters will discuss new findings from mathematical models featured in the collection that relate to the potential effects of targeting sub-populations for voluntary medical male circumcision services. The second half of the webinar will feature panelists who will discuss how the models have been used to inform their choices about where best to invest their resources to prevent HIV.

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CROI 2017

The annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) took place February 13–16, 2017 in Seattle, Washington. Read on to review the coverage, access webcasts of conference sessions and to check out what caught AVAC’s attention.

In the Media

CROI 2017 was covered extensively by Medscape and aidsmap, and on AVAC’s feed on #CROI2017.

Highlighted Webcasts

Whether from the conference rooms in Seattle or while streaming remotely, the following sessions caught our attention.

Monday, February 13

Tuesday, February 14

 

Wednesday, February 15

 

Thursday, February 16

Additional Resources

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Hangouts with HIVE — PrEP Awareness Campaigns: Including Women

Surveys and focus groups conducted with women demonstrate few women know about PrEP as an effective HIV prevention method and women are interested in learning more about PrEP as a potential option for themselves.

Join HIVE for a 1-hour discussion via Google Hangouts.

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National HIV PrEP Summit

The National HIV PrEP Summit (NHPS) is a new NMAC conference slated for December 3-4, 2016 in San Francisco. Like the conference’s logo, this meeting is a collaboration between community-based organizations (CBOs), health departments (HDs), national organizations and NMAC. The meeting brings together HIV leaders to discuss and learn about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and other biomedical HIV prevention interventions.

The intent of NHPS is not to argue the science of PrEP. Instead, it will focus on the implementation and infrastructure needed to turn the promise of the science into an effective community-level HIV prevention option.

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World AIDS Day 2016

Every year World AIDS Day events take place across the globe to raise awareness and show support for people living with HIV. To find a local event, or add your own, visit worldaidsday.org.

UNAIDS has campaign materials, social media tools and other information on how to participate all available here.