Institute
SYNCing to Empower Black Women in HIV Prevention: Health Departments and HBCUs
Studio FThis session is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the current landscape of HIV prevention for Black women—from both a Health Department and HBCU perspective, emphasizing the need for culturally competent, multimodal strategies that are feasible and scalable. Participants will gain insight into practical approaches for reducing HIV and STI risk among one of the most vulnerable populations in the U.S.
Navigating Healthy Aging: Innovation, Challenges, and Equitable Health Solutions
Studio CThis institute will open with an overview of HealthHIV's Third Annual State of Aging with HIV™ National Survey. Presenters will then demonstrate that despite advancements in treatments, our communities continue to face significant health challenges.
Unveiling HIV: Challenging Assumptions on Molecular Surveillance and Criminalization
Potomac A/BExperts will ground attendees in an understanding of HIV criminalization as well as the efforts that attendees can join for modernizing HIV criminalization laws and eradicating HIV related stigma. Attendees will also have the opportunity to learn more about MHS and why PLHIV and advocates are so concerned with a program whose ostensible purpose is the promotion of public health. Finally, panelists will educate attendees on the interrelationship between different forms of surveillance, focusing on different ways in which reproductive autonomy is targeted as a case study.
Beyond Daily Oral PrEP
Studio AGet to know APRETUDE, including a discussion with a patient ambassador, followed by early insights from the PILLAR & EBONI implementation science studies.
CANN and HealthHCV’s 9th Annual National Monitoring Report on HIV/HCV Co-Infection
Studio BThe Community Access National Network (CANN) — in collaboration with HealthHIV, HealthHCV, and the National Coalition for LGBT Health — is hosting the Annual National Monitoring Report on HIV/HCV Co-Infection. During the SYNC session, CANN will present its annual report on the state of co-infection in the United States, including a summary of the HIV/HCV Co-Infection Watch. HealthHIV will present data and implications from its State of Harm Reduction Inaugural National Survey.