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In this episode, Oni Blackstock, MD, MHS, and Brittany Williams, PhD,discuss key considerations to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake in cisgender women, including: 

• The misconception by patients and healthcare professionals (HCP) that cisgender women are at low risk for HIV 
• Reframing HIV prevention from “risks” to “reasons” such as promoting self-care and taking control of one’s own sexual health
• CDC PrEP guidance recommendations 
• Increasing PrEP awareness by sharing PrEP experiences with others in the community
• The importance of community representation in PrEP marketing and campaigns 
• Challenges with finding HCPs who prescribe PrEP for cisgender women
• Promoting self-advocacy when seeking care, including HIV prevention 
• Strategies for patients to engage with their HCPs to learn about and obtain PrEP 
• Available resources for PrEP coverage

Faculty: 

Oni Blackstock, MD, MHS
Founder & Executive Director

Health Justice

New York, New York

Brittany Williams, PhD
Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration

Department of Education

University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

Link to full program: https://bit.ly/3PZGYdR

In this episode, Kenyon R. Farrow and Raphael J. Landovitz, MD, MSc, discuss key considerations to PrEP uptake in transgender individuals and racial and ethnic minority men who have sex with men, including: 

• Rates of HIV diagnoses in Black and Brown communities
• Issues stalling success in HIV prevention (eg, stigma, healthcare coverage, and administration and operational barriers)
• Considerations for healthcare professionals when discussing PrEP with patients
• Importance of representation (eg, racial and ethnic minority people, transgender people) at clinic offices
• Promoting cultural humility to build strong patient-provider relationships

Faculty: 

Kenyon R. Farrow
Vice President of Policy
Point Source Youth
Contributing Editor
TheBody.com
Cleveland, Ohio

Raphael J. Landovitz, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Director, UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Co-Director, Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services
Los Angeles, California

Link to full program:
https://bit.ly/3PZGYdR

In this episode, Winnie Sseruma and Linda-Gail Bekker, MBChB, DTM&H, DCH, FCP(SA), PhD, discuss some of the barriers to genuinely patient-centered HIV care in Africa and offer calls to action for healthcare professionals for responding to patient preferences.

They discuss the efforts to improve patient-centered HIV care in the foundations and organizations for which they work. They also address issues related to stigma around HIV and complacency and lack of visibility for HIV.

You will then hear them talk through differentiated service delivery in South Africa and Mozambique as models for other parts of Africa. They focus on HIV prevention and some of the difficulties of reaching certain populations to better communicate effective prevention practices.

They end with a discussion about the importance of documenting the experiences and stories of people living with HIV.

Winnie Sseruma
International Development Consultant 
London, United Kingdom

Linda-Gail Bekker, MBChB, DTM&H, DCH, FCP(SA), PhD
Director
Desmond Tutu HIV Centre
Past President
International AIDS Society
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa

Link to full program:
https://bit.ly/3Fxsfkz

In this episode, Iskandar Azwa, MBChB, and patient advocate Andrew Tan Tze Tho discuss barriers to genuinely patient-centered HIV care in Malaysia and the surrounding region and offer calls to action for healthcare professionals for responding to patient preferences.

They discuss health literacy programs and other forms of effective health communication, especially with respect to disparate communities. They also address the prevalence of late presentation in Malaysia and the importance of getting people tested and into care earlier.

They then discuss the urgency of rapid initiation of antiretroviral therapy, discrepancies in access to health services, and stigma and discrimination.

Finally, they discuss the issues preventing newer antiretrovirals from being more readily available to people in the region; the importance of maintaining and refining patient-focused, differentiated care in the face of such disparities; and the role of advocates and healthcare professionals in helping to drive those improvements. 

Iskandar Azwa, MBChB
Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine
University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Andrew Tan Tze Tho
President
Kuala Lumpur AIDS Support Services Society (KLASS)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Link to full program:
https://bit.ly/3Fxsfkz

In this episode, Marc Thompson and Tristan J. Barber, MA, MD, FRCP, discuss some of the barriers to genuinely patient-centered HIV care in the United Kingdom and offer calls to action for healthcare professionals for responding to patient preferences. They discuss barriers to HIV testing and effectively communicating the benefits of testing to disparate communities. They also talk through the difficulties in maintaining patient engagement in HIV care and the value of using peer support workers in HIV clinics. You will then hear Marc and Dr Barber talk through treatment and prevention practices. They focus on the importance of messaging around U=U: that treatment can make a patient’s HIV undetectable, and therefore their HIV is untransmissible. They end with a discussion about changing treatment paradigms and how to keep patients informed and empowered—not overwhelmed—by those changes to help ensure lasting health outcomes.

Marc Thompson
Director, The Love Tank
Co-founder, Prepster
London, United Kingdom

Tristan J. Barber, MA, MD, FRCP
Honorary Associate Professor
Institute for Global Health
University College London
Consultant in HIV Medicine
Ian Charleson Day Centre
Royal Free Hospital
London, United Kingdom 

Link to full program:
https://www.clinicaloptions.com/hiv/programs/2022/what-pts-want-hiv

In this episode, please join Steve and Eddie for a conversation with Cristian Eduardo, who is an advocate, speaker and educator for anti-trafficking initiatives, as well as  immigrant and LGBTQ+ rights.
Cristian is a survivor of international and domestic human trafficking, a Mexican immigrant, HIV+, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, and someone who speaks openly about the mental health challenges he has faced that frequently result from trauma.


Cristian Eduardo's: 
Instagram
Linkedin

Center for Health Empowerment
PrEP
PEP

Latinx HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

legacycares.org

fallingoutlgbtq.com

instagram: @fallingoutlgbtqpod

twitter: @fallinglgbtq

Melissa Grove M.S., LPC has served as Executive Director of Legacy Counseling Center, Inc. since 1999, transforming the agency into the largest provider of mental health services for HIV+ people in the South. The Grace Project National Conference for Women Living with HIV she founded hosts 200 HIV+ women annually. Other projects include founding Legacy Founders Cottage, an AIDS care facility, and creating the centralized housing solution, Homebaseforhousing.org website. Her newest program, Legacy Master Leasing, sublets apartments to homeless people living with HIV. Ms. Grove speaks around the nation on issues pertaining to mental health, relationships, muscular dystrophy, HIV and chronic illness She additionally has a private therapy practice in Dallas, TX.

She was named the 2014 Public Citizen of the Year through the North Central Texas National Association of Social Workers, and received the 2015 Black Tie Dinner Kuchling Humanitarian Award. Currently Ms. Grove has served on the National Consumer Advisory Committee for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and consults on the STS4HIV Project, a project of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

In this episode, hear HIV activist Marc Thompson share his perspectives on aging with HIV including: 

• His early experiences after receiving his diagnosis
• Persisting issues of the HIV epidemic including stigma and discrimination
• Changes in healthcare with the advent of HIV treatment
• Added issues of aging with HIV like polypharmacy, multimorbidity, and mental health concerns (eg, loneliness, social isolation)
• Actions needed to improve the path for the future: addressing opportunities to expand research, improve collaboration between HIV and other healthcare professionals and gain wisdom and knowledge from others aging with HIV

Presenter:

Marc Thompson
Director, The Love Tank

Link to full program: 
https://bit.ly/3yIkntc

You can also join Marc Thompson and a panel of patient advocates and healthcare professionals in person or in a live simulcast as they discuss healthy aging with HIV at our live symposium at AIDS 2022 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They will discuss the challenges faced by older people with HIV, including medical and nonmedical issues, and specific challenges faced by subgroups of older patients such as women and patients in resource-limited settings.

In this episode, Darcy Wooten, MD, discusses new HIV data from IDWeek 2021, including:

• A rapid test-and-treat program to start DTG/3TC in patients newly diagnosed with HIV (STAT)
• Efficacy when switching from 3-drug to 4-drug TAF-based regimens to DTG/3TC (TANGO)
• Virologic outcomes with 2-drug vs 3-drug ART regimens (Trio Health HIV Network Study)
• Metabolic complications in treatment-naive patients (Study 1489 and Study 1490)
• Resistance analysis of an investigational agent, lenacapavir (CALIBRATE)
• The Positive Perspectives Survey to evaluate the U=U Educational Campaign in North American patients

Presenter:

Darcy Wooten, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California

Link to full program:
https://bit.ly/3BCHF2E

凱文博士又來拜訪啦！本集請凱文來為性傳播感染 STI 解惑以及去除污名。不僅是對性活躍者，STI 對於整個同志群體來說都是個跳不過的話題，可是很多人卻對它們知之甚少。在不夠了解的情況下，也給自己帶來更大的心理壓力，也可能獲得更多來自其他人的異樣眼光。

到底性傳播感染的分類有哪些？需要哪些治療和預防方式？HPV 疫苗到底要不要打？我們今天一次講給你聽。

想了解更多關於 HIV 的知識，歡迎收聽 EP16 對話 ACON 成员：HIV 陽性又怎樣

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In this episode, Jennifer Cocohoba, PharmD, and Jason Schafer, PharmD, MPH, discuss key studies from IAS 2021 that will influence the role of the pharmacist in the treatment and prevention of HIV. Their discussion includes analyses of:

• The 144-week analysis of the TANGO study, showing high rates of virologic suppression of patients switched from a TAF-containing regimen to DTG plus 3TC
• The 144-week analysis of the TANGO study, showing high rates of virologic suppression of patients switched from a TAF-containing regimen to DTG plus 3TC
• An extension of the FLAIR study, evaluating efficacy and safety of long-acting CAB plus RPV in treatment-naive patients
• The CUSTOMIZE study, an implementation effectiveness study that evaluated the feasibility of implementing provision of long-acting CAB plus RPV in the clinic setting
• The HPTN 084 study of PrEP using CAB vs TDF plus FTC in sexually active cisgender women
• The CALIBRATE and CAPELLA studies of long-acting lenacapavir in treatment-naive and treatment-experienced patients, respectively

In addition, Drs. Cocohoba and Schafer discuss key considerations of these medications, including cost and acquisition logistics.

Presenters:

Jennifer Cocohoba, PharmD
Professor
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Jason Schafer, PharmD
Professor and Vice Chair
Jefferson College of Pharmacy
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Content based on conference coverage of IAS 2021 with educational rant support from Gilead Sciences, Inc.; Janssen Therapeutics, Division of Janssen Products, LP; Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.; and ViiV Healthcare.

Link to full program:
https://bit.ly/3z8SBnC

Link to full program:
https://bit.ly/3263Q1s

Marc is the co-founder of Black Out UK and PrePSter.

A Black gay man living with HIV, Marc unveils his story, his passion and his work around PrEP, U=U & social justice has gone to make a huge impact in the lives of many.

Follow Marc on IG @marct_01 
Follow Dan on Instagram & Twitter @danyomii 

Alexander Charles Adams is here to teach us and make fun of mean zach when he bombs.

Featured song: Magnolia Tree by Otis Jedding

A person living with HIV who, has an undetectable viral load, cannot transmit the virus to their sexual partners. To discuss this significant advance in science and its impact, James Watson talks to two people passionate about the topic and the messaging, Laurie Edmiston, the Executive Director of the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE), and Adrian Betts, an HIV-positive activist and the Executive Director of the AIDS Committee of Durham Region.

U=U was first coined by the Prevention Access Campaign and an international Consensus Statement was developed endorsed by over 100 countries.

In the episode Laurie discusses some of the skepticism that surrounds both the statement and the science, but how that became reduced as national agencies like CATIE and the Government of Canada publically endorsed U=U. 

For further reading, check out the Blog section of The Positive Effect for a couple of new posts exploring current understandings and implications of the U=U message.

Visit the episode page on The Positive Effect website for full episode details and more about guests Laurie and Adrian. Click here for the full audio transcript.

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