Webinar & Meeting Reports

On December 15, the COVID Advocates Advisory Board (CAAB) and AVAC held a webinar about the Omicron variant featuring Salim Abdool Karim, director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA).

World AIDS Day takes place on 1 December every year. It’s an opportunity for everyone to support people living with HIV/AIDS, commemorate those we have lost, take stock of the tireless work being done worldwide and re-energize advocacy efforts to end the epidemic.

With long-acting injectable PrEP coming to market, how can we mitigate barriers and adopt the intervention widely in high-risk settings? On Wednesday, November 10, Evidence to Action, the webinar series hosted by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), heard from experts at Johns Hopkins University, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), AVAC, Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM), and EGPAF on what’s new in PrEP, the present and future of long-acting injectables, what actions to take for optimal implementation and how we can better enable access in key populations.

On Wednesday, October 27th, we held a webinar to discuss the state of global HIV cure investment and how Martin Delaney Collaboratory (MDC) is making investments in cure research and working with communities. The webinar featured the growing investment in both the science and stakeholder engagement of HIV cure and included an overview of the HIV cure research funding landscape, a history of the MDC program and a panel discussion.