To ratchet up success in the global fight against AIDS, ICRW challenged AIDS experts and advocates at this year’s Mexico City international AIDS conference to shift from an emergency-response to a long-term strategy that invests more in HIV prevention and focuses on the social and economic issues that drive the pandemic, especially among women and girls. Participating in 18 events, ICRW was well represented.
Conference Sessions
Aug. 2 | Aug. 3 | Aug. 4 | Aug. 5 | Aug. 6 | Aug. 7
Women in HIV Trials: Building Bridges in Clinical and Social Research
ICRW and Tibotec
Sponsored by ICRW and Tibotec, this session will discuss the importance of social science analyses that are crucial to ensuring that HIV clinical trials more adequately meet the needs of women and adolescent girls. Hear from leading researchers on their experiences with prevention and treatment trials, the challenges they face and the solutions they have found toward integrating women into HIV trials.
Date: Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008
Time: 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Location: W Hotel
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Effective HIV Vaccine Requires Women in Clinical Trials
New ICRW research points to gender inequalities keeping women from trials in Kenya
Developing a successful HIV vaccine will depend on whether researchers can successfully address the concerns and barriers that currently keep women from participating in clinical trials in many developing countries, according to new research by ICRW.
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How to Better Marry Clinical, Social Science?
Toward Strengthening HIV Vaccine Trials for Women
Clinical science can benefit enormously from social science, concluded participants in the ICRW pre-session panel on HIV trials in Kenya at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
Gender and HIV Research Network Launch
ICRW, International AIDS Society, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, Soul City: Institute for Health and Development Communication; and African Population and Health Research Center
ICRW and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation have joined forces to strengthen HIV prevention, treatment and care programs and establish a global network to fill research-program gaps and act more strategically to reduce HIV. The Gender, Sexuality and HIV Research Network will serve as a conduit for people to more easily and effectively coordinate resources and efforts; collaborate on research, program design and strategic agendas; and communicate new ideas, lessons learned and other information important to reducing HIV.
Date: Sunday, Aug., 3, 2008
Time: 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Skills Building Room 9
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ICRW, San Francisco AIDS Foundation Launch New Network to Strengthen Coordination, Response to HIV Epidemic
At the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, ICRW and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation join forces today and launch the Gender, Sexuality and HIV Research Network, one of the first networks to bring together researchers and programmers to strategize and collaborate on their work related to gender, sexuality and HIV.
Conference report:
New Research Network Hits Home at Mexico City AIDS Conference
Time ran out before everyone could share their ideas about how to improve the ways that researchers and the broader AIDS community share vital information to improve HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and services. But as people crowded through the door, off to their next conference session Monday afternoon, they left their names and e-mail addresses – the crucial first step in establishing a strategic network on gender, sexuality and HIV research.
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Date: Monday, Aug. 4, 2008
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Location: SR-7
Combating Stigma and Discrimination in Healthcare Settings
Date: Monday, Aug. 4, 2008
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Location: SR 10
The link between mobility and HIV risk among recent male migrants in Karnataka, India
Date: Monday, Aug. 4, 2008
Location: Hall D, Level 2
Improving Quality of Care for People Living with HIV by Reducing Stigma and Discrimination in Vietnamese Hospitals
Poster Presentation
Date: Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Poster Exhibition, Hall D
Political Leadership can! : Lessons from Parliamentarians for Women’s Health (PWH)
Date: Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Poster Exhibition, Hall D
Special edition of The Lancet on HIV prevention – to be presented by lead authors
This special Lancet series consists of six reviews on the challenges of current and future needs for global HIV prevention. Topics include the evidence for biomedical interventions, how to improve behavioral approaches, addressing and understanding structural approaches, and how to make programs work and scale them up. ICRW’s Geeta Rao Gupta and Jessica Ogden, two of the lead authors, will present Structural Approaches to HIV Prevention.
Date: Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008
Time: 12:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. with press conference at either 3 p.m. or 4 p.m.
Location: Session Room 9
Press Conference
3 p.m. - 3:45 p.m .
Room 1 (Aztecas), Media Centre, Hall A, Level 1, Centro Banamex, Mexico City
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Special Session on HIV Prevention Calls for Moving Beyond “Magic Bullet” Approaches to Fighting AIDS
ICRW presents key research finding showing that AIDS experts must tailor HIV prevention efforts to context of countries affected by the AIDS pandemic
The global health community and governments must move beyond “one-size-fits-all” approaches to HIV prevention to design interventions that are tailored to the epidemic in heavily affected countries, according to a new paper, "Structural Approaches to HIV Prevention.” The paper, written by leading researchers from ICRW and other co-authors, appears in The Lancet series on HIV prevention and was released today at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
Political Leadership Can! : Lessons from Parliamentarians for Women’s Health
Date: Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Poster Exhibition, Hall D
Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, UNAIDS, ICRW and Tibotec sponsor
Making HIV Trials Work for Women and Adolescent Girls
Date: Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Location: Skills Building Room 2 (SBR 2)
Impact of AIDS on human development: Reproduction in social context
Date: Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: Session Room 3
Moving from Promises to Actions: Building Global and National Commitment for Evidence-Based Approaches to Addressing Stigma and Discrimination
ICRW researcher Laura Nyblade will speak as part of a panel presentation,
Date: Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
Time: 12:45 p.m.
Location: Session Room 10
My Shobhanam (wedding-night): Drivers into Sex Work and Their Impact on Sex Workers Vulnerability to HIV, Stigma and Violence
Poster Presentation
Date: Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Poster Exhibition, Hall D
Private-public Innovation for Youth: Civil Society Programming as a Catalyst for Government Scale-up of HIV Prevention Among Ethnic Minority and Vulnerable Adolescents in China
Poster Presentation
Date: Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Poster Exhibition, Hall D
Young Women Investigator Prize: Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS
before the plenary session
Date: Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
Time: 8:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Location: Session Room 1 (6090), Banamex Center
Building Partnerships with Communities to Reduce Stigma: Results of a Two Year Community-led Stigma-reduction Program
Date: Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Poster Exhibition, Hall D
HIV and Livelihoods: Is Microfinance the Magic Bullet?
Date: Thursday, Aug. 7 2008
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Skills Building Room 5
Young Men and Women Working Together for Gender Equality and Sexual and Reproductive Health
Date: Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Location: Poster Exhibition, Hall D