Community Presentations 2008
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"Microbicidas y prevención de la infección por VIH" - presented November 29, 2008 by Jerome T. Galea MSW, UCLA Program in Global Health, in Lima, Peru for the XVIII Jornada Científica de Laboratorio Clínico y Anatomía Patológica.

 

"Biomedical Interventions Among Men Who Have Sex With Men" - presented September 28, 2008 by Dr. Jorge Sanchez , Principal Investigator Peruvian Clinical Trials Unit, in Washington, DC.

"Aspectos básicos sobre Microbicidas y PEP" - presented by F. Javier Arellano (Clínica Condesa) on September 23, 2008 in Ixtapan de la Sal, México. In Spanish.

"Making Anal Sex Safer for MSM in the Developing World" - IRMA presented this workshop August 1, 2008 at the AIDS 2008 pre-conference sponsored by the Global Forum for MSM and HIV - "The Invisible Men: Gay Men and Other MSM in the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic." IRMA presenters included Jim Pickett, Jeremy Wing Kien Kwan, Olanrewaju Onigbogi, and Dr. Javier Lama.


IRMA Vice-Chair Bridget Haire presented on rectal microbicides at the 2008 Microbicides and HIV Biomedical Prevention Symposium, held at Sydney University in Sydney, Australia on July 14 and 15, 2008. Here are her slides.

 

Direct from Delhi - Microbicides 2008 Comes to Sweet Home Chicago, a community forum sponsored by the Chicago Women and Girls HIV Prevention Coalition and IRMA, June 25 in downtown Chicago, provided an update on the current developments in microbicide research and advocacy - direct from the Microbicides 2008 conference held in New Delhi, India. Speakers included Latifa Boyce of the Alliance for Microbicide Development who talked about the microbicide pipeline (click here for her slides), Jim Pickett of IRMA who focused his remarks on rectal microbicides (click here for his slides) and Dazon Dixon Diallo of SisterLove, Inc. who placed everything into a human rights context. Click here to view the flyer for the event. Click here to see photos from the event.

Click "HIV Epidemic among MSM in Africa - Prevalence & Incidence" presented by Eduard Sanders at the Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi, May 14, 2008.



"Forward Thinking - The Future of HIV Prevention" by David Munar, presented in Philadelphia, PA, May 2008.

 

Microbicides 2008 presentations [February 24 - 27, 2008 in New Delhi, India]


Rectal Microbicides Update - presentation slides from New Delhi

amfAR, the UCLA AIDS Institute, and The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine presented a Rectal Microbicides Update, a pre-M2008 satellite symposium, at the Hotel Ashok, New Delhi, India on the 24th of February, 2008, from 9:00 a.m.to noon. The symposium Co-Chairs were Ian McGowan MD PhD FRCP and Rowena Johnston PhD.

The update had the following objectives:

• An overview of recent advances in rectal microbicide development
• Improvements in applicator design
• The role of nonclinical studies in screening rectal microbicide candidates
• An update on advocacy directed towards increasing funding for rectal microbicides

The program was as follows. Please click on the title of the presentation to download the slides. Many thanks to all the presenters for supplying their slides to IRMA!

Ian McGowan MD PhD - "An Overview of Rectal Microbicides"

Rowena Johnston PhD - "Getting to the bottom of rectal microbicides"

Charlene Dezzutti PhD - "Rectal Microbicides Update: Nonclinical Evaluation"

Dorothy Patton PhD - "Pigtailed Macaques as a Model for Rectal Microbicide Use"

Ross Cranston MD - "Do candidate rectal microbicidesalso need to protect the anal canal?"

Peter Anton MD - "The Evolving Design of Rectal Microbicide Safety Studies: a Perspective from Two Trials"

Craig Hendrix MD - "Methods to Develop a Rectal-Specific Microbicide"

Alex Carballo-Dieguez PhD - "Importance of the Right Microbicide Delivery Device (MDD) for Rectal Microbicide Acceptability"

Jim Pickett - "Less Silence, More Science. Advocacy to Make Rectal Microbicides a Reality"

Dr. Peter Anton of UCLA, the Principal Investigator of the MDP-U19 project (often referred to as 'the rectal microbicide flagship program") presented three times in succession at the M2008 in New Delhi on various findings from the first-ever rectal safety study of a NNRTI gel called UC-781. His PowerPoint presentations are listed below. Click on the presentation's title to download that set of slides. Many thanks to Peter and his colleague Justin for making these slides available to IRMA.

- "Ex Vivo HIV-challenge of in vivo exposed colorectal explants may be an important predictor of microbicidal effectiveness"

- "A Phase I safety and acceptability study of the UC-781 microbicide gel applied rectally in HIV
seronegative adults"

- "Stability of Mucosal Cytokine Profiles (Proteins) and Mucosal Mononuclear Lymphocyte Phenotypes Following Rectal Administration of UC-781 Microbicide Gel in a Phase 1 Safety Assessment"

"The Media - Microbicide Friend or Foe?" is a skills-building session that was presented at the M2008 conference in New Delhi, February 25, 2008. There are lots of helpful hints around media engagement - please check it out!

Dr. Nesha Haniff presented "Rectal Microbicide Advocacy and Anal Intercourse in a Homophobic Nation: The Problems of the Sexual Act as Sexual Orientation" at the M2008 conference in New Delhi, February 26, 2008.

Poster presentation - "Characteristics of Lubricant Use Among Peruvian Men Who Have Sex With Men" from the M2008 conference.