July 13, 2010

Dear Advocates,

This update includes information on biomedical prevention research-related events at the upcoming XVIII International AIDS Conference (IAC) that will take place from 18-23 July in Vienna. For those of you who will not be attending, this update describes ways to follow the news from afar.

AVAC's HIV prevention research road map identifies a range of sessions of interest to biomedical prevention research advocates. The abridged and expanded versions are both available on AVAC's AIDS 2010 webpage.

To have informal conversations, meet speakers, learn more about AVAC programs and get a range of publications and fact sheets, please visit us at the AVAC exhibition booth (E-409 in the exhibition hall) and at the Partners in Prevention Research booth (637 in the Global Village).

Also at the AVAC booth, you can get a copy of and learn more about the revised Good Participatory Guidelines, which AVAC and UNAIDS are releasing at the conference. You can also learn how to submit your comments on the new version over the coming months. There will be information about GPP and the revision process on the AVAC website at www.avac.org/gpp.
 
AVAC is collaborating in a number of events at the conference, some of which are described below. Click here for a complete list of AVAC activities at IAC.

• Satellite -- Building Young and Early-Career Investigators' Capacity to Engage Community Stakeholders and Advance HIV Prevention Research: An OCTAVE  workshop on the UNAIDS and AVAC Good Participatory Practice (GPP) Guidelines [Saturday, July 17th, 08:30-18:00, closed session]
• Satellite -- The Search for an HIV Vaccine: Where are we, where are we going and how can we get there faster? [Sunday, July 18, 11:15-13:15, Mini Room 6]
• Satellite -- The Promise and Perils of ARV-based prevention: Making it a reality on the ground [Sunday, July 18, 15:45-17:45, Mini Room 6]
• Oral poster presentation -- WHiPT Community Monitoring of Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention and its Impact on Women: Findings from a five-country pilot in Kenya, Namibia, Swaziland, South Africa and Uganda [Tuesday, July 20, 13:00-14:00, Mini Room 7]
• Global Village Workshop -- Get Ahead of the Game: Your Future Prevention Choices [Tuesday, July 20, 17:15-18:30, Women's Networking Zone in the Global Village]
• Global Village session -- The Future of Sex: Lubes or Pills or Both? [Wednesday, July 21, 10:00-12:30, MSM Networking Zone in the Global Village]
• Global Village Workshop -- Get Ahead of the Game: Your Future Prevention Choices [Wednesday, July 21, 13:00-14:30, Youth Networking Zone in the Global Village]
• Workshop -- Advocating for Women-Centered HIV Prevention Technologies and Environments [Thursday, July 22, 11:00-12:30, Mini Room 8]
• WHiPT male circumcision panel and release of summary report Male Circumcision: Making it Work for Women, [Thursday, July 22, 12:15-13:30, Women's Networking Zone in the Global Village]

There are a number of ways to follow the conference news and updates:

• AVAC will provide regular updates via Twitter (@HIVpxresearch) and the Advocates’ Network
• Visit the official conference blog at http://blog.aids2010.org/
• Follow NAM's scientific reporting with their coverage at www.aidsmap.com/vienna2010
• Kaiser Family Health, in partnership with conference organizer IAS, will provide daily webcasts, podcasts, live coverage and new recaps from the conference at globalhealth.kff.org/AIDS2010

AVAC will keep you in the loop with more updates as the conference gets underway, and we look forward to seeing many of you in Vienna.
 
Best,
AVAC