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2021
2021
sponsor
biomedical program
prospectus
HIV prevention
summit
March 30-31, 2021
www.biomedicalhivsummit.org
#2021BHPS
WELCOME
This is not how we hoped this year’s Summit would be. I never thought that, one year after we first heard
the words “COVID-19” and “coronavirus,” we’d still be in a position where we had to stay distanced from
each other. Fortunately, it does appear that there is some light at the end of this tunnel and we may start
to slowly regain some of our normal lives as the year progresses.
That is why I’m particularly grateful that you are attending this virtual Summit. As we learned from
USCHA last year, we can provide a meaningful, educational, and empowering experience online. I know
it’s not quite the same as meeting in person so I’m very grateful that you have still chosen to join us.
I also want to thank our meeting sponsors, particularly our presenting sponsor Gilead. All of our sponsors
have stuck by us through a very difficult year and we appreciate their continued support.
This Summit is the first NMAC conference under the Biden-Harris administration and their commitment to
end the HIV epidemic by 2025. It’s a lofty goal and one that we at NMAC fully support. Our programming
for the Summit is designed to help our community partners fulfill that goal in their local areas in keeping
If everyone knew their status, with the federal plan’s strategy. NMAC is committed to being a resource for local communities to help
we could take steps to help them reach the plan’s goal not just at the Summit but throughout all of our programming.
protect ourselves and each I hope that these two days will be informative and uplifting for all
other, bringing us closer to our attendees. But I also hope that the Summit will be a much-
I hope that these two
ending the epidemic. needed opportunity to reconnect. We have now spent a full year
largely separated from our family, friends, and colleagues and it has days will be informative
been difficult for all of us. and uplifting for all
GILEAD IS A PROUD SPONSOR While we cannot yet meet in person, I hope this virtual gathering our attendees. But
OF THE NMAC BIOMEDICAL will help to ease the isolation of the last year and fulfill some of that I also hope that the
SUMMIT 2021 need to socialize and interact with others.
Summit will be a much-
Although we are very hopeful that we can start to return to normal needed opportunity to
in the next few months, we know that there is still a long way to go.
Now is not the time to be complacent. Keep staying safe and get reconnect.
vaccinated as soon as you can.
TO LEARN MORE, PLEASE JOIN GILEAD AT THE NMAC BIOMEDICAL SUMMIT 2021
And, once we can safely gather again, we will have a celebration like no other!
GILEAD PLENARY SESSION Yours in the struggle,
EVOLVING HIV TESTING AS THE ENTRY POINT TO HIV PREVENTION
Date: March 30, 2021
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm ET
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WORKSHOP
REDEFINING “RISK” - BEST PRACTICE SHARING FOR ENGAGING YOUNG PEOPLE
IN THE PREVENTION DIALOGUE
Date: March 30, 2021
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS & PARTNER AGENDA AT A GLANCE
Tuesday, March 30 Times listed are in Eastern Standard Time Zone (EST)
10:00 am – 6:30 pm Conference Platform Open
PRESENTING Noon – 1:00 pm OPENING PLENARY - I Want Your Sex- PrEP and Claiming Power & Pleasure
Among GBMSM
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm Community Corner
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Exhibit Hall – Live Representative Hours
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Community Corner
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm SESSION 1 WORKSHOPS
• PrEP’s Getting a Makeover: Shots, Rings, & Other Splendid Things
BENEFACTOR • Factors Associated with Black MSM’s Participation in Biomedical HIV Research
• Engaging People of Trans Experience into PrEP Care
• TelePrEP: Expanding Access & Adherence to PrEP through Telemedicine
• Sex Work Decriminalization Is Critical for Ending the HIV Epidemic
• Collaborative Partnerships for Optimizing PrEP Navigation in San Diego County
• Jotería bien PreParada
• Mujeres Transgénero - Disparidades y soluciones eficaces en el sur
• Virtual impressions to PrEP retention, and the steps in between!
• Correctional Health is Community Health: The Indiana Peer Education Program
SUPPORTER • Motivational Interviewing for PrEP Adherence in PWID
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm SESSION 2 WORKSHOPS
• Revisiting “Risk” - Best practice sharing for engaging young people in the prevention
dialogue
• Engaging Black Women during an emergency department visit to debunk myths on
HIV and STI risks
• Taking It To The Screen: Creating A Virtual Community
• Remote Patient Navigation and Advocacy During COVID-19: Successes and
Challenges
• PrEP Access and Future Horizons: Drug Market and Coverage Changes
PARTNER
• Mentoring Researchers and Care Providers to Address Disparities
• Expanding Pharmacists’ Role for Providing PrEP/PEP
• Texting lost-to-follow-up PrEP patients from a San Francisco STD clinic
• Expanding Our Legacy: Engaging Black HIV Advocates in Clinical Research
• NIH Center Ending the HIV Epidemic Projects: Community Partnerships in the South
to Address Needs and Advance Implementation Science
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm PLENARY - Evolving HIV Testing as the Entry Point to HIV Prevention
Sponsored by Gilead Sciences, Inc.
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AGENDA AT A GLANCE TRACK DESCRIPTIONS
Wednesday, March 31
Federal Training and Education Models
The Federal track of workshops will showcase aspects Training programs and educational models must
10:00 am – 6:30 pm Platform Open
of the Plan to End the Epidemic in America. Topics include the spectrum of stakeholders involved in
Noon – 1:00 pm PLENARY – Pink Table Talk: Women’s Engagement and Inclusion such as implementation research to PrEP availability ensuring biomedical HIV prevention is understood and
with Biomedical Prevention Research through HRSA’s Community Health Centers will be accessed by the populations in need. All parts involved
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open discussed. There will be an opportunity to connect require education; from those looking for PrEP or
with the National Institutes of Health, CDC, HRSA, viral suppression, to the community-based care and
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm Community Corner HHS and the IHS and ask questions about their role in service providers, health clinic employees, doctors,
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Exhibit Hall – Live Representative Hours ending the HIV epidemic. and nurses. Education modalities might include peer-
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Community Corner education, curriculum development, capacity building,
Finance and Access Models collaborative learning, medical education, and online
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm SESSION 3 WORKSHOPS We must develop and test finance and access models professional programs. This track will explore evidence-
• HIV Prevention: Out of the Specialty Clinics and into the EDs and SSPs – a to increase the uptake of PrEP among those with less based training and educational models that are
framework forward or no resources to access it. It is essential to understand culturally competent and available to all stakeholders
that one model will not address the needs of all the involved in biomedical HIV prevention, including
• Molecular HIV Surveillance and Latino/a/x Immigrant Communities
groups that might benefit from PrEP. For that reason, finance, psychosocial services, and clinical care.
• Pivoting HIV Prevention Services to Meet Community Needs During COVID-19 we look forward to including workshops from diverse
• Increasing PrEP Uptake: When a Clinic Feels Like a “Casita” perspectives and populations focusing on the gender, PrEP en Español
race, and sexuality spectrum. Examples of these models El acceso de las comunidades hispanoparlantes a
• Transgender Women of Color: Disparities and solutions in the South
are drug and co-pays financing programs, clinical care, estrategias biomédicas para prevenir el VIH, depende
• TelePrEP and COVID: Implementing a TelePrEP Program/Enhancing testing during monitoring, adherence support, and initiatives that del acceso que estas poseen a la información y al
COVID-19: Lessons learned from HIV self-testing programs address social determinants and health disparities. cuidado médico. Es por esto que hemos diseñado
• Promoting Equitable Access to PrEP, TelePrEP, and Long-Acting PrEP These workshops will also engage attendees in the esta área temática en español. Aquí se discutirán
conversation about funding for community and clinical avances en las modalidades de PrEP, PEP y tratamiento
• A Tale of 3 Cities: PrEP Navigation in Tennessee
institutions around models proven to be effective in como prevención (“TasP”, por sus siglas en inglés),
• Meet Me Where I Am: Medical Mentorship of Young People the implementation of biomedical prevention efforts. a la vez que se incluirán las barreras encontradas al
• Estrategias para el fin de la epidemia del VIH en poblaciones Latinas de hombres Overall, this track looks at the implementation and implementar programas durante COVID-19, el rol de la
minorías sexuales y mujeres transgénero evaluation of finance and access models and how they movilización comunitaria y el efecto desproporcional
impact community uptake. de la epidemia en estas comunidades. Además, se
• Fuerte y PrEParada: Research and community perspectives on factors impacting
apunta a profundizar sobre los efectos del racismo, el
PrEP uptake among cisgender Latina women PrEP and Ending the HIV Epidemic estatus migratorio y las inequidades en el acceso a la
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm SESSION 4 WORKSHOPS Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) is the federal plan to prevención biomédica, incluyendo, pero no limitado
end the HIV epidemic in the United States by 2025. a, HSH, personas de experiencia trans y aquellas que
• Increasing Choice: Innovation and Biomedical HIV Prevention Research among
Such an initiative will require national-level coordination utilizan drogas intravenosas.
Women
across federal agencies, community organizations,
• Participation of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in Clinical Research clinical providers, health departments, and other key Community Mobilization
• Prevention and Retention in Care for Chem Sex Using MSM stakeholders. Biomedical prevention, including PrEP, In order to be successful in the implementation of
TasP, and PEP, will be critical to lowering the rates biomedical HIV prevention, it is essential to mobilize
• From Innovation to Implementation: Using Adherence Testing to Optimize PrEP
of infections to 90%. On this track, we will discuss the communities most impacted by HIV. Community
• Retos para la prevención de VIH entre las Comunidades Hispanas (HHS) the challenges and opportunities as the targeted mobilization is critical in putting the interests of its
• Workforce Development for Latinx Gay/Bi Men and People with HIV jurisdictions develop their local plans, and the federal members to the fronts. Whether it is through protest,
government roll out their own initiatives like “Ready, demanding representation in clinical trials, or lobbying
• Undetectable = Untransmittable, Walking the Walk, Talking the Talk
Set, PrEP”. Workshops will focus on the essential role of for fair policies, community mobilization has proven
• Get It Get It Presents…Sexual Healing Goes Virtual! biomedical HIV prevention in ending the HIV epidemic. to be effective in promoting change. We should not
• Success Stories and Challenges Implementing PrEP in Indian Country Track content will include a focus on populations underestimate the power of community and how
affected disproportionately including, but not limited it affects health outcomes. Engaged communities
• Expanding HIV Prevention Through HRSA Health Centers to, people of color, MSM, and individuals of trans add a layer of care and trust not always achieved
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm CLOSING PLENARY - Biomedical HIV Prevention Technologies. Are Our Systems Ready? experience. by mainstream health care. Also, reaching increased
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TRACK DESCRIPTIONS THANK YOU SUMMIT COMMITTEE
health literacy around biomedical HIV prevention, is quantitative data on cisgender women and biomedical
only effective when peer and community support is
available. Also, mobilizing communities statistically
HIV prevention. The track will also discuss the barriers
and facilitators for implementing programs and access
NMAC extends a special thank you
overrepresented including, but not limited to, people of to biomedical HIV prevention modalities. to the 2021 Summit program committee
color, MSM, individuals of trans experience is essential
for their self-empowerment and mobilization. Health Disparities, Social Justice and PrEP
who worked many hours for many months
Data has continually shown that HIV does not affect all to provide the fully curated program.
COVID 19 and PrEP populations equally. Instead, a more impactful effect
We are at a historic juncture. We not only continue is observed on those who lack access to medical
fighting to end the HIV epidemic, but also of COVID-19. treatment and quality care. That is why, for example, Melissa Turner, HPTN Community Working Group Chair
Our experience with HIV, and the management of the limited uptake and access to PrEP among Black
the COVID-19 pandemic, reminds us that ignoring or and Latino gay men, compared to white gay men, is a
DeMarc A. Hickson, Us Helping Us
denying such public health threats puts disadvantaged matter of health disparities and social justice. On this
populations in an even worst position. It is not about track, we will deepen into the barriers and facilitators
prioritizing one over the other, but about identifying that affect awareness and uptake on these and other Megan Cannon, Colorado Health Department
how in-place health systems serve to continue HIV populations including, but not limited to, people of
prevention while addressing the crisis caused by color, individuals of trans experience, and people who
Carlos Rodríguez Díaz, George Washington University
COVID-19. Therefore, this track seeks to identify the inject drugs. The discussion will also focus on how
barriers and opportunities to continue providing the social determinants of health impact access to
prevention services during the pandemic. Presenters biomedical HIV prevention and medical monitoring, Rona Siskind, NIAID, NIH
will discuss how organizations have adapted to PrEP stigma, and cultural values around sexuality.
continue offering services while showing qualitative
Carmarion D. Anderson, Black Transwomen, Inc. (NMAC CAP)
and quantitative data on the populations that have Implementation Research, Evaluation, and PrEP
been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 and HIV, This track will discuss current approaches to
including, but not limited to, people of color, individuals implementation science and evaluation related to Natalie Sánchez, NMAC CAP
of trans experience, MSM and people who inject drugs. biomedical HIV prevention and how they inform
It will also inform how health systems developed interventions to increase PrEP awareness and uptake.
Louis B Shackelford, HVTN
around HIV could facilitate COVID-19 testing and its
long-awaited treatment and vaccination. The PrEP Continuum of Care
There is no doubt that PrEP is an effective method to Brandon A. Harrison, Primary Care Development Corporation
Cisgender Women and PrEP prevent HIV transmission. But, for it to be impactful, it
There is little clinical information about the use of must successfully follow the PrEP continuum of care José Ramón García Madrid, ACT Against AIDS Ambassador
current biomedical HIV prevention methods on that builds upon awareness and uptake to adherence
cisgender women. However, according to the CDC, and retention. This track seeks to shed light on how to
cisgender women comprise 19% of the new cases overcome the challenges that prevent the sustainability Sean Bland, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law,
reported in the United States for 2018. This track of a PrEP continuum of care while identifying Georgetown University Law Center
seeks to center the discussion around qualitative and facilitators that might be replicated elsewhere.
Milton Rodríguez, SexTEAM, University of PR
Moctezuma García, San José State University
Sheldon Raymore, The PrEPahHontoz Tipi project
Lucas Lara Rojas, NMAC CAP
James Krellenstein, PrEP4all
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Tuesday, March 30 Session 1: March 30, 2:30pm - 3:30 pm EST Benjamin Brooks, JD, MPH, Assistant Director of
Policy, Whitman-Walker Institute, Washington, DC
Noon - 1:00 pm EST
WORKSHOPS
Meeting the HIV and health needs of sex workers
OPENING PLENARY
Correctional Health is Community Health: The must be part of efforts to end the HIV epidemic. Sex
I Want Your Sex- PrEP and Claiming Power & Pleasure among GBMSM
Indiana Peer Education Program workers are disproportionately impacted by HIV.
Track: Training and Education Models Due to social and economic discrimination, LGBTQ
PrEP has been a game-changer since its introduction in 2012. Although it has not been accessible for those who
Level: Intermediate people, people of color, and women, especially Black
need it the most, particularly communities of color, it has certainly changed the way GBMSM relate sexually
Presenters: and Latinx transgender women, are over represented
with each other. For this plenary, we will explore how PrEP has impacted sexual communication and behavior
Abigail Abram, MPH, Indiana Peer Education in the sex worker population and often face arrest
in an open and real conversation about sex. From academic and community perspectives, panelists will share
Program Manager, Step-Up, Inc., Indianapolis, IN and incarceration. Criminalization of sex work creates
their thoughts on the perceptions of risk, negotiation, and practices as they deepen into the liberating yet highly
John P. Cocco, MSW, LCSW, Director of Reentry, barriers to HIV treatment and prevention, including
stigmatized aspects of PrEP. Panelists will also discuss the transmasculine experience and its impact on not only
Step-Up, Inc., Indianapolis, IN PrEP, and contributes to stigma, discrimination,
its users but also on those who are living with HIV.
Deborah Nichols, MPH, MS, Viral Hepatitis Program and violence against sex workers. The workshop
Host Moderator Director, Indiana Department of Health, Indianapolis, IN will discuss advocacy efforts around sex work
decriminalization and present findings and policy
Facilitated in the Indiana Department of Correction, recommendations from a research project on
Alex Garner, Hornet, the Indiana Peer Education Program (INPEP) ECHO the impact of laws and policies on sex workers in
Ken Williams, Ken Like Barbie Los Angeles, CA Washington, DC and their access to health care
aims to educate people who are incarcerated to
be peer health educators. Peer educators use their and social services. This research identifies the
training to prevent infectious diseases, reduce importance of sex work decriminalization, along
transmission, and improve health. with affordable housing, employment programs, and
LGBTQ protections, for improving HIV and health
Presenter Special Guest INPEP is comprised of four main components. The outcomes among sex workers.
first, the 40-hr workshop, involves training selected
individuals to be peer health educators. Once
David Pantalone, PhD, University Jacen Zhu, U=U Ambassador, trained, peer educators provide 10-hour health Factors Associated with Black MSM’s Participation
of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, Prevention Access Campaign, and education workshops on disease prevention and in Biomedical HIV Research
MA “Undetectable Man” harm reduction to the general population within Track: Community Mobilization
their facility. Monthly site visits allow the INPEP Level: Intermediate
team to connect with the peer educators and audit Presenters:
information presented in 10-hr workshops. Finally, Cheriko Boone, The George Washington University,
Panelists teleECHO sessions create the opportunity for peer Washington, DC
educators at participating facilities to connect
via videoconference for case-based learning and Several promising biomedical advances are in the
continuing education opportunities. This session pipeline, including HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
José Ramón García Madrid, ACT Against AIDS Ambassador, Boulder, CO will give attendees an overview of INPEP and the (PrEP), successful HIV cure in two people to date,
opportunity to hear from INEPP peer educators. and other preventive and potentially curative
strategies (e.g., injectable PrEP; broadly neutralizing
antibodies, or bNAbs). Clinical trials evaluating
Sex Work Decriminalization Is Critical for Ending safety and efficacy of such therapies require
Lucas A. Lara Rojas, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Center for the HIV Epidemic diverse volunteer participation, particularly by
Transyouth Health and Development in Health Services, Los Angeles, CA Track: Health Disparities, Social Justice and PrEP disproportionately impacted populations (e.g., Black
Level: Intermediate men who have sex with men [MSM]). Yet Black
Presenters: people’s underrepresentation in clinical trials is a
Sean Bland, JD, Senior Associate, O’Neill Institute for persistent challenge. Medical research mistrust is a
National and Global Health Law, commonly cited barrier to participation, but other
Brandon A. Harrison, Primary Care Development Corporation, Los Angeles, CA individual-level factors may influence participation
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
Tamika Spellman, Policy and Advocacy Director, decisions, including personal relatedness to HIV,
HIPS, Washington, DC racial/ethnic salience, and altruism. Many Black
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people express altruistic motivations for HIV prevention program at Einstein Medical Center Jotería bien PreParada PrEP’s Getting a Makeover: Shots, Rings, & Other
vaccine trial participation. Less examined are factors Philadelphia. The program serves a mostly Black/ Track: PrEP en español Splendid Things
influencing Black MSM’s clinical trial participation. African American community with low levels of PrEP Level: Intermediate Track: Cisgender Women and PrEP
We examined whether racial/ethnic salience among uptake and wanted to determine if digital marketing Presenters: Level: Intermediate
Black MSM, social activist identification, and medical was an efficient and cost-effective method to reach Jorge Díaz, MSW, Director of Prevention Programs Presenters:
research mistrust were associated with participation people for HIV testing and prevention services. The and Services, Bienestar Human Services Clare Collins, MA, MEd, Microbicide Trials Network,
intentions or interest in injectable PrEP and bNAb campaign aimed to provide trusted information Pittsburgh, PA
Julio E. Frausto, Prevention Counselor | Health
trials. and low barrier access to young MSM in local zip Dazon Dixon Diallo, MPH, Women’s HIV Research
Educator, Bienestar Human Services
codes with high HIV prevalence. The campaign was Collaborative, Atlanta, GA
comprised of digital advertisements on multiple Luis Alberto Borge Duarte, Health Educator, Brian Minalga, MSW, Women’s HIV Research
TelePrEP: Expanding Access & Adherence to PrEP platforms, a landing page, and linkage to a PrEP Bienestar Human Services Collaborative, Seattle, WA
through Telemedicine Navigator. Rates of success with each platform Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, MA, Women’s HIV Research
Track: Finance and Access Models will be shared as well as data on the campaign’s Tres hombres gay latinos/latinx viviendo con Collaborative, Houston, TX
Level: Intermediate continuum - from virtual impressions to PrEP VIH discutirán los factores culturales dentro de Rhonda White, RH Ed, FHI 360, Durham, NC
Presenters: retention, and all steps in between. Costs, campaign la experiencia Queer Latinx, la continua lucha de
Rene Cotto-Lewis, Affiliate Relations, 26Health, design, challenges, and lessons learned will be la autoidentidad, la aceptación y el manejo de la PrEP has been available as a daily pill for nearly a
Orlando, FL shared to inform others considering a PrEP digital inteligencia emocional. La discusión, que también decade, but it’s not meeting the needs of cisgender
Tristan Schukraft, CEO, Mistr, Miami, FL outreach campaign. incluirá la creación de programas sociales para women. About 7,000 cis women are still diagnosed
Daniel Soto, REACH LA, Los Angeles, CA la experiencia Queer Latinx en Estados Unidos, with HIV in the US every year, and Black, Indigenous,
partirá desde sus experiencias como inmigrantes y and Latina women bear the greatest burden. While
PrEP is a vital component of the prevention strategy Collaborative Partnerships for Optimizing PrEP descendientes de inmigrantes. Los presentadores the CDC estimates that nearly 500,000 women in
that’s part of America’s Ending the HIV Epidemic Navigation in San Diego County apuntan a problematizar cómo estos factores y the US could benefit from taking oral PrEP, less than
Plan. PrEP has been FDA approved since 2012, Track: PrEP and Ending the HIV Epidemic programas impactan las crecientes infecciones de 1% of those eligible actually adopt PrEP. Let us be
but uptake and adherence remains extremely low. Level: Beginner VIH y la utilización de PrEP a la vez que tienen una clear: women are not the problem. What could we
One key barrier to PrEP uptake is accessibility, Presenters: conversación profunda sobre las barreras al acceso. change about PrEP to make it work for cis women?
and thus PrEP has remained out-of-reach to many Nicholas Lagunas, San Ysidro Health, San Diego, CA This workshop builds on a program developed by the
individuals, in both rural and urban areas. TelePrEP Women’s HIV Research Collaborative (WHRC) to raise
(telemedicine) can remove this main barrier to San Ysidro Health joined forces with four agencies Mujeres Transgeneros - Disparidades y soluciones
awareness of biomedical HIV prevention for women:
access by eliminating the need for in-person in San Diego County (Family Health Centers of San eficaz en el Sur
current options and future possibilities. Spend an
provider visits every three months. This workshop Diego, Vista Community Clinic, the LGBT Center of Track: PrEP en Español
hour with the WHRC to fortify your knowledge
will allow the audience to hear from multiple San Diego, and San Diego State University which Level: Beginner
of injectable PrEP, vaginal rings, and other major
organizations that have implemented TelePrEP in assists with data evaluation) and formed the San Presenters:
advancements in HIV prevention research among cis
different parts of the country. The audience will Diego PrEP Collaborative for a PrEP Navigation Arianna Lint, Arianna’s Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL
women.
learn how their organization can start or expand proposal. The San Diego Collaborative was awarded
their current PrEP programs utilizing telemedicine, the PrEP Navigation contract focusing on increasing Las mujeres trangeneros que radican en el sur Engaging People of Trans Experience into PrEP Care
while also leveraging their 340B status to create a PrEP prescribing providers as well as providing PrEP continúan sufriendo los saldos mas altos en nuevas Track: Health Disparities, Social Justice and PrEP
sustainable program of offering free online PrEP and Navigation to Black/African American and Latinx diagnosis de VIH en los Estados Unidos. Los Level: Intermediate
STI testing within their community. individuals across the county. In this session, we will estudios mas recientes sugieren que mas de 44% Presenters:
discuss how four competing agencies in different de mujeres negras transgeneros y 23% de mujeres Rebecca Nessen, VP of Strategic Initiatives, Metro
regions of San Diego county have come together latinx transgeneros viven con VIH en el Sur de Inclusive Health, St. Petersburg, FL
Virtual impressions to PrEP retention, and the to successfully provide necessary PrEP navigation la Florida. Tambien siguen las disparidades en el Kiala Emmons Dureke, Trans Services Program
steps in between! services and community/provider education as a acceso a cuidado de salud, empleo, y discriminación Coordinator, Metro Inclusive Health, St. Petersburg,
Track: The PrEP Continuum of Care united front. We will discuss the challenges and en las viviendas y el stigma todos contribuyen a FL
Level: Intermediate successes that have arisen during the first year of la crisis masiva en esta comunidad. En este taller, Christian Klimas, PrEP Navigation Team Lead, Metro
Presenters: implementation as well as lessons learned that might exploraremos los temas que afectan a las mujeres Inclusive Health, St. Petersburg, FL
Aviva Joffe, Einstein Healthcare Network, help other cities/regions develop similar coalitions to trangeneros de color (Incluyendo a las inmigrantes)
Philadelphia, PA provide HIV prevention services. en el sur y buscar soluciones para terminar con METRO provides PrEP Navigation and PrEP medical
la epidemia en estas comunidades que incluyen, care services to over 1,000 patients in the Tampa Bay
Participants will learn about the 2020 digital abogacía, uniones estratégicas y trabajo en la Area. With a robust PrEP Navigation Program and the
outreach campaign of Let’s Stop HIV, the HIV comunidad. ability to engage with and provide care to patients
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via telehealth, METRO has continued this important Motivational Interviewing for PrEP Adherence in Session 2: March 30, 5:00 - 6:00 pm EST This workshop will highlight the importance
service throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, PWID of recruiting, mentoring, and nurturing BIPOC
METRO’s Trans Services Division provides high Track: Health Disparities, Social Justice and PrEP WORKSHOPS researchers and providers and reducing implicit bias
quality linkage and navigation services to those of Level: Intermediate in healthcare and science. Presenters will highlight
trans experience, engaging individuals into services Presenters: Revisiting “Risk” - Best practice sharing for how application of a social justice framework is
and care that speak to the unique needs of the trans Elizabeth Sherman, Cherokee Health Systems, engaging young people in the prevention dialogue critical when discussing how racism in research
community. With the goal to break down the barriers Knoxville, TN Presented by Gilead Sciences, Inc. and medicine impacts access to biomedical HIV
to care for trans individuals, Trans Navigators work as prevention and medical monitoring, PrEP stigma,
Track: Training and Education Models
peers providing health education and risk reduction Despite the provider’s best intentions, HIV risk is and cultural values around sexuality.
Level: Beginner
counseling, building rapport, establishing trust, and often a secondary concern for people in treatment for
Facilitated by Gilead Community Liaisons:
engaging individuals into care. What is uniquely substance use. Usually, the patient’s main concern is
• Blake Rowley
impactful is the fact that Trans Care Navigators are their sobriety. When these patients do take up PrEP, Taking It To The Screen: Creating A Virtual
• Kate O’Connor
cross-trained in PrEP Navigation and therefore able adherence is often inconsistent, fluctuating with their Community
• Michael Barajas
to provide PrEP services to trans individuals and perceived control over their cravings. Additionally, Track: Community Mobilization
• Oscar Mairena
walk them through the entire continuum of care. This since HIV remains connected to the queer community, Level: Beginner
model of care and service delivery, which supports many patients will forgo PrEP because of its Presenters:
Engaging young people (18-25) in the HIV
both the patients and the medical providers, provides associations with LGBTQ+ identity. How are we then Steven Cano, Valley AIDS Council, Harlingen, TX
prevention conversation means expanding our
a best practice approach to serving those who may to recommend PrEP to our patients while avoiding
toolkit (and our vocabulary). This workshop will
otherwise not engage with PrEP care. This workshop paternalism and preserving their autonomy? Further, The Valley AIDS Council Community Mobilization
examine the unique challenges that young people
will share best practices gleaned from experience how are we to encourage adherence when perceived shares insight on how to navigate the Latinx
face, present a framework for engaging with cultural
providing PrEP Navigation and Trans Care Navigation risk changes so frequently? In this workshop, we LGBTQ Community during the on-going COVID-19
competency, and facilitate best practice sharing
Services to the community and highlight challenges examine cases with participants from Cherokee pandemic to include but not limited to: shelter in
around HIV prevention conversations from around
and gaps that still exist as well as a path forward to Health Systems’ experience of combined Medication place activities, mental and physical health, sexual
the country.
addressing these common barriers. Assisted Treatment (MAT) and PrEP services. After an health, and community based learning workshops
explanation of motivational interviewing and a case featuring local organizations and MSM focus/support
example, participants will go through a case together, groups done via the coordination of virtual events.
Mentoring Researchers and Care Providers to
collaborating on the best care plan for the patient. The facilitator will provide specifics on virtual event
Address Disparities
planning using social media, video conferencing
Track: Health Disparities, Social Justice and PrEP
platforms, and in-person events following local/
Level: Intermediate
state/national COVID-19 guidelines towards
Presenters:
continuing community mobilization efforts.
Darrell P. Wheeler, PhD, MPH, ACSW, Provost and
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Iona
College, New Rochelle, NY
PrEP Access and Future Horizons: Drug Market and
Allysha C. Maragh-Bass, PhD, MPH, Scientist I, BECS,
Coverage Changes
Global Health Population and Nutrition, FHI 360,
Track: Finance and Access Models
Durham, NC
Level: Intermediate
Russell Campbell, MA, Deputy Director, Office of HIV/
Presenters:
AIDS Network Coordination
Edwin Corbin-Gutierrez, NASTAD, Washington, DC
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Nicole Elinoff, NASTAD, Washington, DC
A social justice framework is essential when
The HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) landscape
addressing health disparities, specifically for
is rapidly changing. With the introduction of new
Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color
drugs approved for PrEP and generic options
(BIPOC). BIPOC providers and scientists have a
becoming available, many changes are underway or
unique understanding of the physical, cultural,
on the horizon. This presentation provides current
and mental health needs of BIPOC communities,
information on the introduction of PrEP generics,
and this understanding has proven to be effective
potential coverage changes related to the changing
at addressing biomedical, socio-behavioral, and
PrEP drug market, covering PrEP as an essential
structural determinants of healthcare engagement.
health benefit, and the impact on PrEP access.
12 2021 BIOMEDICAL HIV PREVENTION SUMMIT 2021 BIOMEDICAL HIV PREVENTION SUMMIT 13By all of us working together, we can help
end the HIV epidemic.
This is what inspires us to discover
scientific advancements, with a goal of
helping those affected by HIV live longer,
healthier lives.
But it will take more than just medicine.
It takes all of us in the community doing
our part to clear up the facts, correct
misunderstandings, and erase the stigma
that stands in the way of getting tested,
knowing our status, and getting the care
we need.
Working hand in hand, we can put HIV
and its impact in the past.
So that someday HIV is no more.
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Engaging Black Women during an emergency has led to ongoing controversies around HIV discontinuing PrEP. Using a text message-based around pharmacy distributed PrEP/PEP, and policy
department visit to debunk myths on HIV and STI prevention research. The lack of minority group platform, we surveyed City Clinic patients who recommendations and actions happening around the
risks representation within research protocol development initiated PrEP from January 2015-October 2019 and fight here in North Carolina. Staff will also highlight
Track: Training and Education Models and participation has been a longstanding issue, were LTFU as of October 1, 2020, in order to gain current advocacy strategies and updates happening
Level: Advanced signaling a crucial need for the development of answers to these questions. This presentation will directly in North Carolina around pharmacist
Presenters: HIV advocacy training centering the needs of Black review methods, results, and conclusions from this distribution and legislative policy change.
Mandy Hill, DrPH, MPH, UTHealth McGovern Medical people. The COVID-19 pandemic and its socio- text-based survey.
School, Houston, TX political impact further heightened the visibility of
Sandra Coker, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL the structural and systemic factors that contribute Remote Patient Navigation and Advocacy During
to both COVID-19 and HIV burden in marginalized Expanding Pharmacists’ Role for Providing PrEP/ COVID-19: Successes and Challenges
We will share information regarding HIV prevention communities, exposing an urgent need for increased PEP Track: COVID 19 and PrEP
for Black women. Black women in the US are more leadership from community-based advocates in Track: PrEP and Ending the HIV Epidemic Level: Intermediate
at risk of contracting HIV or STIs than other women. infectious disease research. In a collaborative effort Level: Intermediate Presenters:
Disparate rates in HIV/STI risks warrants innovative to address the rapidly evolving conversations around Presenters: Sarah Palmer, Texas Health Action - Kind Clinic,
prevention models. Our study team developed the first HIV prevention trial designs, the Black AIDS Institute Lee Storrow (he/him/his), Executive Director, NC Austin, TX
video log (VLOG)-based HIV prevention intervention (BAI), the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), and AIDS Action Network, Raleigh, NC
for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)-eligible Black the Treatment Action Group (TAG) have developed Arianna Fischer (she/her/hers), Master of Public For many organizations that provide PrEP, PEP and
women who acknowledge recent condom-less sex a curriculum, recruited HIV advocates, and trained Policy Candidate, Duke University, Durham, NC ART, COVID-19 dramatically changed barriers to
during an emergency department (ED) visit. The 30 individuals in research advocacy over a 16-week Matt Martin (he/they), Grassroots Advocacy HIV biomedical prevention access--creating new
intervention leverages vlogs as a novel way to provide certification program, entitled the We The People Manager, NC AIDS Action Network, Raleigh, NC barriers and exacerbating existing barriers. This
HIV prevention messages to Black women. We Research Cohort (WTPRC). session will discuss the barriers COVID-19 created,
discovered potential myths on HIV transmission in two Though they have been on the market since 2012 the interventions Kind Clinic’s Patient Advocate
HIV prevention projects that enrolled Black women. (prior for PEP), uptake for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (navigation and referral) team implemented to
We will describe a warm hands-off strategy from the Texting lost-to-follow-up PrEP patients from a San (PrEP) and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) has address those barriers, and the changes in patient
ED to community clinic partners, discuss utility of a Francisco STD clinic been extremely slow, especially for the communities needs. Interventions discussed include use of
survey as an intervention aimed at building awareness Track: The PrEP Continuum of Care who need it the most. As we continue to advocate telehealth tools to virtually meet with patients,
and knowledge, and compare the HIV risk of Black Level: Intermediate for equitable and accessible PrEP and PEP services creative methods in medication assistance
women to all other women. Target audiences for this Presenters: throughout the South, many jurisdictions across the navigation, and grocery assistance. Successes and
workshop includes health care providers, prevention Montica Levy, MPH, San Francisco Department of country have started to advance policy measures challenges of remote patient advocacy will also
specialists, and researchers. Public Health, San Francisco, CA for increased uptake via pharmacy distributed PrEP be discussed, including patient case examples and
Hannah Brosnan, MPH, San Francisco Department of and PEP. Join NC AIDS Action Network staff as feedback from staff. Following the presentation,
Public Health, San Francisco, CA they discuss the current landscape of PrEP and attendees will be invited to share successes and
Expanding Our Legacy: Engaging Black HIV Stephanie Cohen, MD, MPH, San Francisco PEP services in North Carolina, outline current challenges from their own organizations and
Advocates in Clinical Research Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA policy efforts (successful, failed, and in-the-works) compare experiences of advocacy/navigation staff.
Track: Training and Education Models Kelly Johnson, MD, MPH, University of California San
Level: Beginner Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Presenters:
Myriam Johnstone, BS, Black AIDS Institute, Los Retention remains a barrier to the real-world
Angeles, CA effectiveness of PrEP. At San Francisco’s municipal
Maximillian Boykin, Black AIDS Institute, Atlanta, GA STD clinic (City Clinic), six-month PrEP retention
Louis Shackelford, BS, Fred Hutchinson Cancer rates declined from 66% to 51% (pTUE
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NIH Center Ending the HIV Epidemic Projects: Community Partnerships in the South to Address Needs 5:00 – 6:00 PM EST
and Advance Implementation Science
Track: Federal PLENARY
Level: Intermediate Evolving HIV Testing as the Entry Point to HIV Prevention
Sponsored by Gilead Sciences, Inc.
As part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has funded 65
projects in 46 EHE-priority areas, focusing on how to best implement HIV evidence-based HIV interventions This one-hour plenary session will focus on “Evolving HIV Testing as the Entry Point to HIV Prevention.” Key
in local health care and public health settings through partnerships between community, local partners, and topics to be explored include the current landscape of HIV testing, which includes the Ending the Epidemic
academic collaborators. This session will highlight three projects in the South funded by the NIH Centers plan and other initiatives, barriers, and gaps, as well as best practices highlighted through case studies. It will
for AIDS Research and National Institute of Mental Health’s AIDS Research Centers; each project relies on feature a presentation, a panel discussion, and an audience Q&A.
strong community collaboration and is designed to advance implementation science for improved HIV
prevention and care outcomes. Speakers include academic and community partners from 1) FINISHING HIV: Learning objectives:
An HIV Protection, Diagnosis and Treatment Network for Latinos (Miami-Dade County); 2) PrOTECT: PrEP o Describe opportunities to help strengthen the entry point to the care continuum through
Optimization through Enhanced Capture of Treatment (Alabama); and 3) Getting to [NO]ne in New Orleans: customizing HIV testing initiatives for priority populations
Enhancing PrEP Uptake in Black Women to End the Epidemic (Orleans Parish). o Understand the importance of sustaining urgency for HIV testing, given the barriers/gaps and
the impact of COVID-19
Presenters o Learn about current HIV testing initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels
o Highlight best practices for HIV testing based on successful models from Washington, DC and
the South
Mariano Kanamori, University of
Miami Developmental HIV/AIDS Amy Corneli, Duke University Moderator:
Mental Health Research Center CFAR
Marlene McNeese, Assistant Director, Division of Disease Prevention and Control,
Stephen Meredith Clement, Houston Health Department, Houston, TX
J. Fallon, Louisiana State
Latinos Salud University School
of Medicine
Panelists:
F. Latesha Elopre, University Jacquelyn Bickham, Louisiana
of Alabama Center for AIDS Department of Health and Black
Research Women and PrEP Task Force Clover Barnes, RN, BSN, MBA
Bureau Chief, Integrated HIV Services Division
DC Department of Health, Washington, DC
Ashley Tarrant,
Alabama Quality Casmè Carter,
Management Black Women
Group and PrEP Task
Force Leandro Mena, MD, MPH, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Director, The
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Center for HIV/AIDS Research,
Education and Policy
Jitesh Parmar, Alabama Quality
Management Group
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Noon EST – 1:00 pm EST Session 3: March 31, 2:30 - 3:30 pm EST health care must remove the stigma and barriers
from getting need to reach populations what they
PLENARY WORKSHOPS need to keep them healthy and thriving. As such,
Pink Table Talk: Women’s Engagement and Inclusion with Biomedical Prevention HIV prevention is moving out of specialty clinics and
Research HIV Prevention: Out of the Specialty Clinics and meeting clients where they are. We hope you join
into the EDs and SSPs – a framework forward us for an informative session on how these leaders
Women of color constitute the majority of new HIV new diagnoses among all women in the US and Presented by Gilead Sciences, Inc. are connecting individuals to the preventive services
dependent areas in 2018. Nearly a decade after the approval of the first oral biomedical HIV prevention they need.
strategy, cisgender women’s options for prevention remain limited and participation in prevention research Track: Health Disparities, Social Justice and PrEP
trials face challenges. As a matter of health equity and justice, biomedical HIV prevention research must Objectives:
Level: Intermediate
meaningfully include all women. This critical discussion will address what the field can do to close these • Introduce the FOCUS program and its support
continued gaps. Participants: for screening persons for high risk of acquiring
Derek Spencer, MS, CRNP, Executive Director, HIV and linkage to comprehensive prevention
Host Moderator FOCUS, Gilead Sciences, Inc. services.
Hansel Tookes, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of • Describe how routine screening for HIV can
Clinical Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, connect at-risk individuals to comprehensive
Ken Williams, Ken Like Barbie University of Miami prevention services.
Danielle M. Campbell, MPH,
ATAC, Los Angeles, CA Kris Lyon, MD, Public Health Officer, Kern County • Discuss how linkage to HIV prevention is being
Public Health Services Department; Assistant implemented in multiple setting types.
Medical Director; EMS Medical Director • Identify how populations at risk for HIV are
Anu Hazra, MD, Assistant Professor, Section of identified through the electronic medical records.
Infectious Diseases and Global Health; Medical
Director, DCAM Sexual Wellness Clinic; Director of
Panelists Increasing PrEP Uptake: When a Clinic Feels Like a
STI Services, Chicago Center of HIV Elimination;
“Casita”
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago
Track: Finance and Access Models
Steven McDonald, BS, HIV/AIDS Program Supervisor
Level: Intermediate
Moupali Das, MD, MPH, Executive Director, Virology Therapeutic Area, Gilead Sciences and Case Manager, The John G. Bartlett Specialty
Presenters:
Practice, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Stephen Fallon, Latinos Salud, Wilton Manors, FL
Yu-Hsiang Hsieh, M.S., Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital Latinos Salud, a gay, minority-based agency
Monique Rucker, MPH, Director, FOCUS, Gilead serving the South Florida region with the highest
Ms. Marissa Mercado Sciences, Inc. new HIV rates in the nation, sought to increase
Angelique Griffin, MPH, Director, FOCUS, Gilead PrEP uptake by Latino and other MSM of color.
Sciences, Inc. Between 2016 and 2018, we staged PrEP town halls
René Bennett, JD, Director, FOCUS, Gilead Sciences, and educational galas, and created social media
Inc. campaigns, pamphlets, and videos. PrEP awareness
in our population more than doubled, but PrEP
Kimberly Smith, MD, MPH, Head of Research and Development, ViiV Healthcare Jackie Escobar, MBA, Director, FOCUS, Gilead
uptake did not increase as significantly amongst
Sciences, Inc.
local Latino and other MSM of color. Beginning in
2019, we identified several access barriers to PrEP
This session will feature leaders of Health
uptake. Too often, clients were lost in the hand-off
Departments, Emergency Departments and Syringe
process to external PrEP providers. We hypothesized
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, PhD, Professor of University Diversity and Service Programs from around the country to
that implementing wrap-around services with a
Social Transformation, Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public discuss how they have integrated HIV prevention
prescribing clinic in house would reduce barriers.
Policy and Professor of Sociology at The University of Michigan services for their patient populations. These settings
This workshop reviews the processes and challenges
are often the only access need to reach populations
in launching the clinic, and the outcomes in PrEP
have to health care. We’ve seen health disparities
uptake that resulted. We will also describe the ways
widen in the global pandemic, especially for our
that other CBOs can create similar local impacts.
most marginalized communities. The future of
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Molecular HIV Surveillance and Latino/a/x Promoting Equitable Access to PrEP, TelePrEP, and TelePrEP and COVID: Implementing a TelePrEP A Tale of 3 Cities: PrEP Navigation in Tennessee
Immigrant Communities Long-Acting PrEP Program Track: The PrEP Continuum of Care
Track: Community Mobilization Track: PrEP and Ending the HIV Epidemic Track: COVID 19 and PrEP Level: Intermediate
Level: Intermediate Level: Intermediate Level: Intermediate Presenters:
Presenters: Presenters: Presenters: Allison Wilhelm, MPH, Tennessee Department of
Moctezuma Garcia, San Jose State University, San Landon Myers, O’Neill Institute for National and Ashley Underwood, MPH, Washington University Health, Nashville, TN
Jose, CA Global Health Law, Washington, DC PrEP Program, St. Louis, MO Katherine Buchman, MPH, Tennessee Department of
Rachel Dixon, Prime Health, Denver, CO Health, Nashville, TN
Molecular HIV Surveillance (MHS) is an integral PrEP is not adequately reaching people who could June Gipson, PhD, EdS, My Brother’s Keeper,
strategy for Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) to most benefit from it, including Black and Latinx gay Ridgeland, MS The purpose of this workshop is to explore the
identify HIV outbreaks and ensure people have and bisexual men, Black women, and transgender Kate Curoe, MPH, CDC Midwest Track 2B Capacity differences between three cities in Tennessee
access to biomedical interventions. Public health individuals who are disproportionately impacted Building Assistance (CBA) Staff, Division of where PrEP navigation is supported by the
departments collect HIV genetic sequences from by HIV. Expanded use of PrEP is central to ending Infectious Diseases, Washington University in St. Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) and to
HIV drug resistance tests to identify, monitor, and the HIV epidemic. Financing PrEP medication and Louis, St. Louis, MO describe the barriers and facilitators to supporting
investigate people associated with HIV transmission services and making PrEP initiation, adherence, and a PrEP candidate throughout the PrEP care
networks. However, the use of MHS data presents retention easier are critical issues. This workshop will PrEP has been FDA approved since 2012 and is continuum, and how those barriers and facilitators
several risks and challenges, including stigma, explore inequities in PrEP use and opportunities to a core component of the Prevent Strategy of the differ based on geographic location. Memphis,
marginalization of groups, ethical challenges promote equitable access to PrEP. Attention will be Ending the HIV Epidemic Plan. One barrier to PrEP Nashville, and Knoxville are demographically
and legal issues. Issues related to confidentiality, given to the no cost-sharing requirement for PrEP uptake is accessibility, as PrEP has remained out- diverse, geographically distant, and the resources
documentation status, and informed consent are based on the US Preventive Services Task Force of-reach to many individuals in both rural and each city has to offer impact its ability to support
relevant for Latino/a/x immigrants. Strategies will recommendation and continued work that is needed. urban areas. This barrier has been exacerbated by successful PrEP uptake. Additionally, this workshop
be discussed to ensure equitable participation of Additional attention will be given to the recent COVID-19. As we continue to fight to end the HIV will describe the impact of the addition of new,
highly vulnerable populations to enhance culturally surge in telehealth adoption and opportunities and epidemic, COVID-19 has pushed providers and other affordable PrEP clinics in each city.
responsive EHE endeavors and address concerns challenges for the equitable delivery of telePrEP, as organizations to adapt HIV prevention through
related to MHS activities for Latino/a/x immigrant well as the development of long-acting HIV products TelePrEP and HIV self-testing programs. This ensures During this workshop, the presenters will describe
communities. that do not require daily pill-taking and the need continued linkage to PrEP and PrEP prescribing the development and evolution of the PrEP
for education and policy action to prepare for these during COVID-19. Navigation program, in each city, from 2016 to the
products. present. Improvements have been informed by
Transgender Women of Color: Disparities and This presentation will allow the audience to hear annual program evaluation and navigator input,
solutions in the South more about the impact COVID-19 has had on HIV including review of demographic data to identify
Track: Health Disparities, Social Justice and PrEP Meet Me Where I Am: Medical Mentorship of Young prevention, such as the reduction in HIV testing priority populations served in each city, illustration
Level: Beginner People and disruptions in other care services, and then of how challenges differed across the state, and
Presenters: Track: Health Disparities, Social Justice and PrEP give an overview of two innovative solutions, documentation of how community-initiated solutions
Arianna Lint, Arianna’s Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL Level: Intermediate TelePrEP and HIV self-testing. Attendees will learn addressed those challenges.
Presenters: the benefits of implementing a TelePrEP program
Transgender women of color in the south continue Louie Ortiz-Fonseca, Advocates for Youth, to overcome COVID-19 barriers, the process to
to experience the highest rates of new HIV Washington, DC design and maintain a TelePrEP program, and how Pivoting HIV Prevention Services to Meet
diagnosis in the United States. The most recent to use TelePrEP implementation worksheets to Community Needs During COVID-19
needs assessments suggest that up to 44% of Through the art of storytelling and story of self, gauge what stage they are in the implementation Track: COVID 19 and PrEP
black transgender women and 23% of Latinx three youth activists living with HIV will share process. Attendees will also learn about HIV self- Level: Beginner
transgender women are living with HIV in South their experience how mentorship impacted their testing and important HIV self-testing components Presenters:
Florida. Continued disparities in access to healthcare, experience with medical providers. Participants will to consider while developing a TelePrEP program. Ashlee Wimberly, MPH, Washington AIDS
employment, and housing discrimination and stigma be provided an overview of the “Medical Mentorship Then, a Community Based Organization will speak Partnership, Washington, DC
all contribute to the crisis within this community. In Toolkit” and the importance of incorporating a about both their HIV self-testing program and their Ramatoulaye Keita, MHA, Whitman-Walker Health,
this workshop we will delve deeper into the issues mentorship framework in a medical setting to TelePrEP program and how they were able to use Washington, DC
affecting transgender women of color (including promote self-efficacy, access to care, and medical these solutions to continue to enhance testing, Tania Ruiz-Toledo, MSc in Public Health, La Clinica
those of immigrant experience) in the South and adherence of young people living with HIV. linkage to PrEP, and PrEP care during COVID-19. del Pueblo, Washington, DC/Maryland
look at solutions to help end the epidemic in these
communities that include, outreach, advocacy, and The DC PrEP for Women initiative, which aims to
partnerships. increase access to comprehensive sexual health
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