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  • July 23, 2018 to July 27, 2018

    The 22nd International AIDs Conference (AIDS 2018) was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from 23-28 July 2018 and brought together 18,000 participants from around the globe.

  • May 17, 2018

    On Thursday, May 17, AVAC’s HVAD 2018 webinar told the story of the current state of HIV vaccine research from two perspectives. Dr. Sandhya Vasan of the Military HIV Research Program in Thailand provided her perspectives on the world of HIV vaccine research since RV144: where have we come and where are we going? Mark Hubbard, a veteran vaccine advocate and community representative for HIV research in Nashville, Tennessee offered his take from a community and advocacy perspective: what are today’s current success and challenges, and how are community members pushing the HIV vaccine agenda?

  • April 23, 2018

    AVAC PxROAR Europe presents a webinar introducing European approaches to HIV vaccines and a cure. The European HIV Alliance’s Sheena McCormack will discuss HIV vaccines and the quest to identify immune correlates associated with control of HIV replication and HIVACAR’s Felipe Garcia will discuss research into a therapeutic alternative to “cART for life” (combined antiretroviral therapy).

  • April 18, 2018

    At CROI 2018 we heard stories, saw new data, and had lots of questions about early PrEP rollout. On Wednesday, April 18th, AVAC and partners from Jilinde in Kenya and PZAT in Zimbabwe explored valuable resources for people working to deliver oral PrEP. See below for some of the tools and resources we will explored and discussed during the webinar.

  • April 11, 2018

    Join researchers Renee Heffron and Kerry Thomson for a discussion of their data that showed women who were pregnant or post-partum were 3-4 times more likely to acquire HIV. They will review the data presented at CROI 2018 and discuss implications for care and prevention.

  • March 29, 2018

    Join Dr. Zeda Rosenberg, International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM), and Dr. Jared Baeten, Microbicide Trials Network (MTN), for a brief presentation and discussion on the latest data on the dapivirine vaginal ring for HIV prevention.

  • March 4, 2018 to March 7, 2018
    Click for a recap of CROI 2018—conference coverage, a webinar series and more.
  • December 4, 2017 to December 9, 2017

    AVAC was at ICASA 2017, along with many of our partners, participating in sessions both before and during the conference.

  • November 21, 2017

    There was a joint amfAR, AVAC, Health Gap webinar in a PEPFAR Watch series focusing on PEPFAR data interpretation with Brian Honermann, Deputy Director for Policy at amfAR.

  • October 27, 2017

    This is the second webinar in a series with Dr. Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, about the future of investments in the NIH HIV clinical trial research networks in the US and internationally.

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