This World AIDS Day, five leaders in the fight against AIDS presented on what it will take to defeat HIV/AIDS in our lifetime. Mo Rocca, correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, moderated a panel discussion probing the latest advances in prevention, the coming battles in advocacy, and the challenges that we can overcome by working together.
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It’s About Time Together We Can End AIDS
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PrEP Access & Engagement Training
The PrEP Access & Engagement Training was hosted by BTAN Bay Area and the Black AIDS Institute. Health care access, PrEP guidelines, how to engage in a conversation about PrEP, community mobilizing around PrEP and prevention and much more were discussed.
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Neutralizing HIV: The Future of Treatment and Prevention
The Rockefeller University invited people to learn about promising new approaches to treat and prevent HIV. Attendees heard about ongoing research with broadly neutralizing antibodies, components of the body’s immune system that can be harnessed to attack HIV, and perspectives from scientists, doctors, HIV advocates and volunteers in clinical trials about their experiences with HIV research.
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EATG-AVAC Webinar Series on Prevention Vaccines, Douches, Gels and Injectables
This was the third and final webinar in the new series on HIV prevention topics. We envisioned what the future of HIV prevention might look like in years to come. This webinar series was designed to update and inform the European community on scientific breakthroughs and the resulting introduction of new prevention options into European contexts.
Speakers included Professor Ian McGowan, principal investigator at the Microbicides Trial Network and Dr Stefano Vella, Head of the Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation at the ISS (the Italian National Institute of Health).
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HIV Cure: Where Are We And Where Are We Going?
The Water Reed Army Institute of Research invited anyone in or near the DC area for a World AIDS Day seminar.
Jintanat Ananworanich, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director for Therapeutics Research, MHRP, was the guest speaker.
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PEPFAR’s DREAMS Initiative: Advancing a Prevention Agenda for Women and Girls
A talk on advancing the prevention agenda for women and girls occurred on November 20, 2015 in Washington, DC.
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Atlanta Counter Conference at the National HIV Prevention Conference
Mirroring the need for intersectionality and inclusivity in the fight to end HIV/AIDS, the People’s Mobilization on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy Counter Conference is a community-built space that aims to empower constituencies most impacted by HIV to be in control of the dialogue. The Counter Conference happened in parallel with the National HIV Prevention Conference (NHPC) as an alternative and accessible space for those who cannot attend the larger NHPC.
Over two days from Monday, December 7 through Tuesday, December 8, activists and advocates hosted conversations at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta on the remaining shortcomings of NHAS and its recently released Federal Action Plan, as well as other crucial intersectional issues that were missing from NHPC discussions. Sessions centered on not only raising issues and communities absent from NHAS, but was a vital space to plan collective advocacy work, prioritize policy issues and build power among communities ahead of changing federal leadership in 2016.
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CROI 2016
The annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) took place from February 22 to 25 in Boston. Read on for news and materials from the conference and information on our post-CROI webinar series.
News from the Conference
From our blog:
- Reflection on bNAbs and Broadening the Toolbox – Josh Agee
- The Railroad: From science to delivery, freeing young black gay men from a tragic trajectory – Brandon Harrison
- AVAC’s Take On Ring Trial Results—Breaking News in HIV Prevention
- Conducting Research With a Heart: The stories of CROI 2016 Award Recipients – Morenike Ukpong
- Finally, You Can Put a Ring On It! – Anna Miti
- Making Space for Community Educators and Activists at CROI – Ntando Yola
- Push – Julie Patterson
- CROI for the Community – Rob Newells
- Context Matters: Key Thoughts from CROI 2016 – Josephine Ayankoya
- CROI, For the First Time – Yvette Raphael
For further background information, press releases and other useful resources on the ring trial results, visit here.
Additional Coverage
As in years past, aidsmap covered the conference with their excellent in-depth reporting across a range of research areas, including HIV prevention. Their full coverage is available here.
Post-CROI webinar series
We will be convening a series of post-CROI webinars covering a range of topics over the next couple of months. For more information on upcoming webinars and for slides and audio from past webinars, click here.
And stay tuned to our Advocates’ Network emails to be the first to know about additional webinars in the series!
Webcasts and Posters
All CROI webcasts may be accessed here. Electronic posters will be available a week after the conference.
Tweets from #CROI2016
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Exploring Dapivirine Ring Results
In the first webinar in our post-CROI webinar series, Jared Baeten (MTN) and Zeda Rosenberg (IPM) spoke about the dapivirine ring trial results announced at the conference and fielded questions from webinar participants.
Download slides and audio from the webinar. A video version is available below.
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PrEP and Women in the US: Update on the science, research and implementation
The US women and PrEP Working Group held a webinar on the state of the science and implementation of PrEP for women in the US. Slides are available below.