The 11^th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science will be a virtual event with a local partner hub in Berlin on Sunday, July 18 through Wednesday, July 21, 2021.

ICAP staff will support satellite sessions, share e-posters and oral presentations, and participate in the International Workshop on HIV Pediatrics 2021.

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Satellite Sessions:

• “Leveraging the Lessons of Differentiated Service Delivery to Provide High-Quality Integrated Maternal and Child Health services”

July 18, 19:00- 20:30 (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna

Speakers Include: Elaine Abrams, ICAP; Fatima Tsiouris, ICAP; Aleny Couto, Mozambique Ministry of Health; Angela Mushavi, Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care; Robinah Babirye, APV+

• “Innovative Clinical Trial Designs to Accelerate Increase in PrEP Choices”

July 18, 21:00- 22:30 (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna

Speakers Include: Jessica Justman, ICAP

• “Differentiated HIV Services for Mobile, Migrant and Displaced Populations”

July 19, 19:00- 20:30 (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna

Speakers Include: Miriam Rabkin, ICAP; Carol Camlin, University of California San Francisco; Andrea Low, ICAP; Jibrin Bilkisu, Federal Ministry of Health, National HIV/AIDS, STIs & Hepatitis Control Programme (NASCP); Olawale Fadare, ICAP; Hélder Macul, Ministry of Health, National STI/HIV/AIDS Control Program; Shambel Aragaw, ICAP

• “Differentiated Service Delivery and COVID-19: Resilience, Innovation and Lessons Learned”

July 19, 21:00- 22:30 (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna

Speakers Include: Peter Preko, ICAP; Catherine Godfrey, OGAC/PEPFAR; Tiffany Harris, ICAP; Sage Semafera, Rwanda National Network of People Living with HIV; Henry Zakumumpa, Makerere University; Koffi Simplice Bohoussou,PLNS/MOH Cote d’Ivoire; Zenebe Melaku, ICAP; Akudo Ikpeazu, NASCPH/MOH Nigeria

Oral Presentation:

• “Optimizing antiretroviral treatment and viral suppression for adolescents and young people living with HIV by implementing Operation Triple Zero (OTZ) in four states in Nigeria”

Speakers Include: Franklin Emerenini, Ruby Fayorsey, Olawale Fadare, Ejike Okwor, Izuchukwu Umahi, Samuel Orisayomi, Richard Opara, Chibudem Momah, Emmanuel Atuma

E-Posters:

• “Improving access to HIV viral load testing in the Northern regions of Cameroon”
• “Determinants of long-term HIV infections at point of HIV diagnosis in the Kingdom of Eswatini: Results from the HIV-1 recent infection surveillance program”
• “Ensuring quality in HIV point of care testing for recent infections in a surveillance program”
• “Maintaining Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) services amid COVID-19 outbreak in Gambella region, Ethiopia”
• “Oral PrEP consultations among adolescent girls and young women in Kisumu County, Kenya: Insights from the DREAMS program”
• “Changes in HIV outcomes and progress towards epidemic control from 2016 to 2020 in Lesotho: Comparing results from two nationally representative surveys”
• “Contrasting needs and vulnerabilities of adolescent females aged 15-19 years living with HIV according to likely mode of transmission in Mozambique”
• “Interventions to enhance uptake of PrEP for high-risk populations in Nampula Province, Mozambique”
• “Improving viral suppression among children and adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in Nampula province, Mozambique”
• “Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy (TPT) focal point strategy and its impact on TPT cascade in Nampula Province”
• “Maintaining HIV services in the context of COVID-19 pandemic in Nampula province, Mozambique”
• “The impact of HIV stigma on time to ART initiation in four African countries”
• “Reaching males living with HIV though scale-up of index testing services: 8 countries in sub-Saharan Africa”
• “Access to maternal health and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission services during the COVID-19 era in sub-Saharan Africa”
• “Older persons living with HIV (OPLWH) aged 50+ make more progress toward the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets in four African countries”
• “Who is missing from the HIV care cascade? Factors associated with not achieving the 90-90-90 targets among adults living with HIV in four African countries”
• “Associations between individual and partner-level mobility, household food insecurity and women’s transactional sex behavior: an analysis from six African countries”
• “HIV risk behaviors among those with and without viral load suppression: findings from population surveys from four African countries”
• “Expansion of multi-month dispensing of HIV antiretroviral medication in sub-Saharan Africa in the COVID-19 era”
• “Correlates of couples HIV testing and counseling and reported barriers to uptake among adolescents and young adults: results from two population-based surveys conducted in Malawi and Zambia”
• “Differentiated Service Delivery (DSD) model to increase access to HIV – 1 RNA viral load testing in four states in Nigeria”
• “Finding the missing: characterization of HIV recent infection clusters in Rwanda”
• “Gender differences in perceived and actual HIV risk in rural high school learners in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa”
• “’Stable patients’ need health services too: HIV-related symptoms are common amongst people eligible for less-intensive differentiated service delivery treatment models in Harare, Zimbabwe”
• “Zimbabwe’s progress toward the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets: comparing 2016 and 2020 population-based surveys”
• “A comparison of self-reported antiretroviral therapy use and detection of antiretrovirals in the blood: the Zimbabwe Population-based HIV Impact Assessments (ZIMPHIA 2016 and 2020)”
• “Estimated prevalence of prior HIV diagnosis among children living with HIV in Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the Population HIV Incidence Assessments (PHIA)”

International Workshop on HIV Pediatrics 2021:

• E-poster: “Missed opportunities for prevention of vertical HIV transmission and early infant antiretroviral treatment in Eswatini” (Reidy W, Kamiru H, Nhlabatsi N, Mthethwa N, Tsiouris F, Parmley L, Sahabo R, Abrams E)
• E-poster: “The Journey from a Positive HIV Self-test to Linkage and Treatment: Barriers and Enablers Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Zambia” (Chipungu J, Mwamba C, Rabkin M, Bolton C, Abrams E, Msukwa M, Kasonde P, Sundano L, Zech J, Zerbe A, Boccanera R, Sharma A)
• Oral presentation: “Optimizing antiretroviral treatment and viral suppression for adolescents and young people living with HIV by implementing Operation Triple Zero (OTZ) in four states in Nigeria” (Speakers include: Franklin Emerenini, Ruby Fayorsey, Olawale Fadare, Ejike Okwor, Izuchukwu Umahi, Samuel Orisayomi, Richard Opara, Chidubem Momah, Emmanuel Atuma)