Jim Pickett speaks at the Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference 2010

Today AFC Advocacy Director Jim Pickett gave a plenary presentation at the Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference 2010 in Sydney, Australia. His talk, “Yes, There is a Gay Agenda: The need to re-conceptualize HIV prevention in the epidemic’s third decade” was part of the session titled “Re-Thinking Prevention.”

Pickett discussed HIV prevention in the United States context and provided insights into the U.S. Gay Men’s Health Agenda, Chicago’s “How are you healthy?” campaign, the U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy, sexual health, and biomedical prevention. Click here to view his slide set.

Yesterday Pickett co-chaired a symposium called “Political, Cultural, and Logistic Realities of Microbicides for Australasia and the Pacific” and sat on a number of panels discussing STI prevention and gay men’s health.

Read more about the Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference 2010 and invited speakers.

BE HEARD! - Presentations Now Available from AIDS 2010 Event

Condoms Aren’t Enough! 
Will Pills and Lubes Define the Future Of Sex? 
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More than 100 of the world's top experts on human rights and HIV among sexual minorities led presentations and workshops in Vienna on July 17 at BE HEARD, an all-day conference event that addressed soaring global rates of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM). The event preceded the launch of AIDS 2010, the XVIII International AIDS Conference (IAC) and had nearly 600 participants.

IRMA was an event sponsor and Steering Committee members Ian McGowan, Jorge Sanchez, Roger Tatoud and Jim Pickett led a 2-hour session with other top researchers including Drs.Gaudensia  Mutua, Jorge Saavedra and Patrick Wilson called "Condoms Aren’t Enough! Will Pills and Lubes Define the Future Of Sex? An Overview of New HIV Prevention Tools in Development."

Below are 5 of the presentations - please give each of them a click and learn. The first - directly below - begins with Dr. Mutua's talk - "Basic Concepts about AIDS Vaccine Research."

 

Hosted by the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF), BE HEARD focused on challenges and solutions to achieving universal access to HIV-related prevention, care, treatment, and support services for sexual minority communities worldwide.

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