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NEW >>> From Product to Promise - Advancing Rectal Microbicide Research and Advocacy [English and Spanish]
IRMA's new report, From Product to Promise - Advancing Rectal Microbicide Research and Advocacy, officially released at the Microbicides 2010 conference in Pittsburgh on May 23, 2010, provides an overview of the maturing rectal microbicide field, updates the resource tracking exercise IRMA last conducted in 2006, and lays out global advocacy goals and objectives.
Importantly, the report also calls for the creation of a Global Rectal Microbicide Development plan, which would provide the foundation necessary to move the field from pre-clinical studies through Phase III efficacy trials – from promise to product.
Click here for the entire report (64 pages)
Click here for the Letter from the Chair, Acknowledgments, Table of Contents
Click here for Section 1 - Denial, neglect, stigma and criminalisation: Notes on the global challenges to preventing HIV during anal sex
Click here for Section 2 - The state of rectal microbicide research
Click here for Section 3 - Are current global investments in rectal microbicide research adequate to move from promise to product?
Click here for Section 4 - IRMA’s world tour: Key activities 2008–2010
Click here for Section 5 - From Promise to Product: Advancing Rectal Microbicide Research and Advocacy
Click here for the Endnotes
Click the IRMA-ALC page for the Spanish version of the report De la Promesa al Producto: Avanzando en la Investigación y Promoción de los Microbicidas Rectales. You can also find a basic fact sheet in Spanish and a Spanish brochure on this page.
NEW >>> Fact Sheets, PowerPoint [English, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic]
Click here for IRMA's Rectal Microbicides 101 fact sheet, prepared in May, 2010.
Click here for this fact sheet in Spanish (¿Qué son microbicidas rectales?).
Click here for this fact sheet in French (Tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur les microbicides rectaux).
Click here for this fact sheet in Russian (Ректальные микробициды 101).
Click here for this fact sheet in Portuguese (Microbicidas Rectais 101)
Click here for this fact sheet in Chinese.
Click here for this fact sheet in Arabic.
[Special thanks to the Global Forum on MSM and HIV for the French, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese and Arabic translations.]
Click here for the fact sheet that describes our IRMA Nigeria chapter.
Click here for Rectal Microbicides: The Basics, IRMA's adaptable PowerPoint presentation that can be downloaded and utilized in a variety of contexts. Click here for an older version of Microsoft PowerPoint if the other one doesn't work for you. Click here for this presentation in Spanish.
The presentation, prepared in May, 2010, comes complete with talking points. Slides may be edited as appropriate. IRMA members and other community advocates are encouraged to use this presentation and help increase awareness and education around rectal microbicides. IRMA is available for any technical assistance needs - just send an email to rectalmicro@gmail.com.
Featured reports
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Less Silence, More Science, released in New Delhi on February 24, 2008, is available in PDF format in color or b&w.
Press regarding the 2008 report
- Read the official press release in News.
- Read coverage of the report in GCM's Global Campaign News Issue #91 - February 15, 2008.
- Read coverage in the February 27, 2008 PlusNews Global.
- Read coverage in the February 27, 2008 Windy City Times .
- Read about the report, IRMA, and microbicides in the context of public health in NASTAD's March Prevention Bulletin - March 2008.
- Read coverage in Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report - March 4, 2008.
- Read coverage in the Bay Area Reporter - March 6, 2008.
- Read "Saving the World for Anal Sex" here on the Bilerico Project - March 7, 2008.
- Read "Less Silence, More Science: Making Anal Sex Safer" here on RH- Reality Check - March 17, 2008.
- Read “Rectal Microbicides: We Need Less Silence, More Science” here, by Jim Pickett (Summer 2008 edition of Thrive, a quarterly HIV prevention, treatment, and advocacy publication).
Menos Silencio, Más Ciencia
IRMA released Menos Silencio, Más Ciencia (third from left above) in Mexico City August 1, 2008 at a presentation preceding the 17th International AIDS Conference. The translation of this landmark document is largely due to the efforts of IRMA- ALC. Read the press release.
IRMA Goals, General Membership, Steering Committee Membership and Terms of Reference
Created in 2005, the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) is comprised of over 850 advocates, policymakers and leading scientists from 6 continents working together to advance a robust rectal microbicide research and development agenda - with the goal of creating safe, effective, acceptable and accessible rectal microbicides for the women and men around the world who engage in anal intercourse.
IRMA unites AIDS advocates, scientists, and policymakers around the globe in efforts to confront the institutional, socio-cultural and political stigma and denial around the public health need for rectal microbicide research and to increase funding and commitment within this field of inquiry. IRMA hosts a moderated listserv and sponsors regular international conference calls featuring expert updates on the status of rectal microbicide research as well as other relevant developments in HIV prevention technology. It also engages in transnational projects such as a lubricant use survey, designed to gather important data for future research on the safety of over the counter sexual lubricants and insights into acceptability issues for future rectal microbicides.
Click here for general membership information.
Click here for the IRMA blog post announcing the 13 new members who joined the SC in February 2009 after an exhaustive nominations process.
IRMA's Terms of Reference.
IRMA released a Consensus Statement on Rectal Safety of Vaginal Microbicides May 17, 2007, calling upon the microbicide community to support rectal safety trials of vaginal microbicides which have progressed to Phase III efficacy trials, and to ensure that the introduction of safe and efficacious vaginal microbicides shall not be delayed by collecting and reviewing rectal safety data. The full statement is endorsed by the African Microbicides Advocacy Group, the Alliance for Microbicide Development and the Global Campaign for Microbicides.
"Men & Women Demand Rectal Microbicides" is a poster that was presented at AIDS 2006: XVI International AIDS Conference.
Hot Blog Links
Important links:
See the IRMA blog for even more links than the ones listed below
AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coaltion
The Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)
Chicago Coalition for Microbicides
Global Campaign for Microbicides
The Global Forum on MSM and HIV
International Partnership for Microbicides
U-19 Microbicide Development Program
