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2022
2022
sponsor
program
prospectus biomedical
HIV prevention
summit
April 20-21 Chicago, IL
biomedicalhivsummit.org #2022BHPS
CREATING Gilead is proud to
support the Biomedical
POSSIBLE Summit 2022
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WELCOME
Welcome back!
This is the moment We’ve been waiting for this moment for two years: when we FINALLY get to see each
other again.
These two days could become very emotional for me and, I’m sure, for many of you. After so much
separation and isolation in the last two years, seeing so many people I care about in person could be
overwhelming…but in a very good way. So if you see me getting emotional this week, you’ll know why.
It’s especially important for us to meet in person at a time of great strife and uncertainty around the
world and here at home. Since we last met, we’ve seen Covid variants, Black Lives Matter protests, a
contentious national election, Jan. 6, and war in Ukraine. And we’ve had to deal with it largely isolated
from each other. I think we need to be around each other to begin to address the shared trauma we’ve
faced in the last two years. If nothing else, it will be cathartic for many people.
While so much has consumed our attention in the last two years, we have not lost sight of the
importance of ending the HIV epidemic. We have all continued our work, even in the face of challenges
unprecedented in scope and sheer volume. And for that, we should all be proud of ourselves. When it
would have been so easy to give up and go home, we persisted.
This conference is an opportunity for the HIV community to This conference is an
recommit and rededicate our efforts to our common mission: ending
HIV. We have less than a decade to meet the goals of the federal
opportunity for the HIV
plan to end HIV. Now is the time to come together again and do the community to recommit
hard work in our communities. Our priority populations have been and rededicate our
hard hit by Covid and their reluctance to even hear anything about
medical care has likely only increased.
efforts to our common
mission: ending HIV.
We have a tremendous amount of work ahead of us in a very
uncertain environment. This week marks our first steps on that path.
But, finally, we’ll be on that path together again.
Yours in the struggle,
Paul Kawata
2022 BIOMEDICAL HIV PREVENTION SUMMIT 1
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
PRESENTING
BENEFACTOR
SUPPORTER
2 2022 BIOMEDICAL HIV PREVENTION SUMMIT
AGENDA AT A GLANCE
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 Times listed are in Central Time
12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Registration
Location: Ballroom Foyer, Level 4
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open
Location: Chicago Ballrooms 8-10, Level 4
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
7:00 am – 4:00 pm Registration
Location: Ballroom Foyer, Level 4
7:30 am – 8:15 am Breakfast
Location: Riverwalk, Level 1
8:30 am – 10:00 am Morning Plenary
The role of biomedical prevention in ending the HIV epidemic
Location: Chicago Ballrooms 4-7, Level 4
10:00 am – 5:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open (closed during plenary sessions)
Location: Chicago Ballrooms 8-10, Level 4
10:30 am – 12:00 pm SESSION 1 WORKSHOPS
16-Week STEM Program For Black Youth Having Our Say: Including Black Women
in San Francisco in HIV Prevention
Location: Mississippi, Level 2 Location: Sheraton Ballroom 2, Level 4
Como aumentar el acceso de Latines a No Data No More: Manifesto aligns
la Prevención Biomédica research and TGNC realities
(Presented in Spanish with English Location: Colorado, Level 2
Interpretation)
Location: Michigan B, Level 2 Promoting PrEP & Ensuring its Coverage
& Affordability
Enhancing Provider Response to HIV Location: Mayfair, Level 2
PrEP/Treatment Services for Black Gay
Men Responsible Hoeing: Understanding
Location: Michigan A, Level 2 Underground & Chemsex Culture in
Black/Latinx Communities
Getting more providers to be U=U (La interpretación en español está disponible)
champions Location: Sheraton Ballroom 3, Level 4
Location: Sheraton Balltoom 1, Level 4
The Power of Togetherness: Building
Future HIV Advocates
Location: Missouri, Level 2
12 noon - 1:00pm Lunch
Location: Riverwalk, Level 1
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Afternoon Plenary
Grinding stigma in the underground. Negotiating sex in the app’s world
Location: Chicago Ballrooms 4-7, Level 4
2022 BIOMEDICAL HIV PREVENTION SUMMIT 3
AGENDA AT A GLANCE
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm SESSION 2 WORKSHOPS
Access through Equity: Realizing PrEP’s Solving America’s PrEP Failure: A
Potential for Black Women’s Health National Financing and Delivery
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 2, Level 4 Program
Location: Michigan A, Level 2
Black and Latina/x/o Community-
Engaged HIV Research Partnerships in HIV Status Neutral: Voices from the
Chicago Ground
(La interpretación en español está disponible) Location: Mayfair, Level 2
Location: Michigan B, Level 2
Role of pharmacists’ along the HIV
ESCALATE: Strengthening prevention and treatment continuum
Organizational Effectiveness through Location: Missouri, Level 2
Stigma Reduction & Elimination
Location: Mississippi, Level 2 Diverse Perspectives on Aging with HIV
from Members of the National HIV &
Existing in the Margins: The Aging Advocacy Network (NHAAN)
Transmasculine Community Location: Sheraton Ballroom 3, Level 4
Location: Colorado, Level 2 (La interpretación en español está disponible)
Radical Intersectionality Among
Communities of Cultural Influencers and
Health Advocates
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 1, Level 4
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm SESSION 3 WORKSHOPS
BLUPrInt: Tools and Resources for Philadelphia’s Citywide TelePrEP
Building Equity-Focused PrEP Services Program
Location: Michigan A, Level 2 Location: Missouri, Level 2
COVID-19 Kept Us Apart but Brought Sex Positive interventions towards
Faith and Science Together! Chemsex and PrEP for Latino MSM
Location: Colorado, Level 2 (La interpretación en español está disponible)
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 3, Level 4
Follow the Experts - Developing Teen-
Centered Social Marketing Campaigns Thinking Inclusively: The intersection
Location: Mayfair, Level 2 of HIV, TGNC and Gender-Affirming
Surgeries
Long-Acting Antiretroviral Injectables (La interpretación en español está disponible)
and Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies - Location: Michigan B, Level 2
What’s New?
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 2, Level 4 We Didn’t Know - It was designed that
way!
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 1, Level 4
6:30 pm - 8:30pm Welcome Reception
Location: Chicago Ballrooms 4-7, Level 4
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AGENDA AT A GLANCE
Thursday, April 21, 2022
7:00 am – 12:00 pm Registration
Location: Ballroom Foyer, Level 4
7:30 am – 8:15 am Breakfast
Location: Riverwalk, Level 1
Morning Plenary
Can Fantasies Become Realities? The Quest for Multi-purpose Prevention Products
Location: Chicago Ballrooms 4-7, Level 4
10:00 am – 12:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open
Location: Chicago Ballrooms 8-10, Level 4
10:30 am – 12:00 pm SESSION 4 WORKSHOPS
Addressing “Addictophobia” to Engage Trabajadoras sexuales en la frontera:
MSM Who Use Drugs in PrEP Usando sus voces para sobrevivir
(La interpretación en español está disponible) (Presented in Spanish with English
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 3, Level 4 Interpretation)
Location: Michigan B, Level 2
Color the Blanks: Radical Clinical/
Non-Clinical Dialogues within TGI We’re In Control: Events and
Communities Advertising By Us, For Us
Location: Missouri, Level 2 Location: Michigan A, Level 2
Connect! Developing Youth Programs to Taking Care of Our Own: How Peer
Deliver PrEP and TasP Effectively Services Can Fill The Gaps In Our Mental
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 2, Level 4 Health System For People Living With
HIV
Developing/ implementing innovative Location: Colorado, Level 2
PrEP intervention strategies through
community engaged research HIV Prevention and Action in Asian
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 1, Level 4 American & Native Hawaiian/ Pacific
Islander Communities
Location: Mississippi, Level 2
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
Location: Riverwalk, Level 1
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Afternoon Plenary
The PrEPpy Awards - The best PrEP Education programs and Campaigns in 2021
Location: Chicago Ballrooms 4-7, Level 4
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TRACK DESCRIPTIONS
Finance and Access Models online professional programs. This track will explore
We must develop and test finance and access models the importance of evidence-based capacity budling
to increase the uptake of PrEP among those with and culturally competent training and available to all
less or non-resources to access it. One model will not stakeholders involved in HIV biomedical prevention,
address all groups’ needs due to the diversity among finance, psychosocial services, and clinical care.
the populations at risk of infection that will benefit from
PrEP. These models entail drug and co-pays financing Community mobilization and advocacy strategies
programs, rebates, clinical care, monitoring, adherence proven to have an impact
support, and initiatives that address social determinants If we are to be successful in implementing biomedical
and health disparities. These workshops will also HIV prevention is essential to mobilize the communities
engage attendees in the conversation on funding most impacted and at risk of HIV infection. Community
for community and clinical institutions to implement mobilization and evidence-based advocacy strategies
evidence-based models. Overall, this track looks at the are critical in putting the interests of its members to
implementation and evaluation of finance and access the fronts. Civil disobedience, community organizing,
models and how they impact communities’ uptake in and advocacy for fair policies and funding has proven
need. effective in promoting change. However, we should
not underestimate the power of community and
The National HIV/AIDS Strategy on how it affects health outcomes. This track looks for
implementing PrEP workshops that display advocacy strategies, specifically
The National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) provides a those impacting biomedical HIV prevention access.
framework for the federal plan to end the HIV epidemic. The underground and sexual culture of PrEP
The first version was published in 2010 under President PrEP has been a game-changer since its introduction
Obama, and it was updated in 2015 and 2020. in 2012. Although it has not been accessible for
While the early versions look at the details, the communities of color, it has changed how gay and
updated 2020 version looks at the broader aspects bisexual men who have sex with men (GBMSM) relate
of the epidemic. The NHAS will require national sexually. In addition, it is essential to recognize that
coordination across federal agencies, community gay men look for underground venues to find pleasure
without judgment. Therefore, substance use, or how
organizations, clinical providers, health departments,
it is known underground, chemsex, becomes another
and key stakeholders. On this track, we will discuss
critical topic that needs to be discussed. This track
the challenges and opportunities presented by the
looks for workshops on sex positivity, chemsex, sex
NHAS and its impact on the federal plan to end the
apps, and the underground.
HIV epidemic. In addition, workshops will focus on
the essential role of biomedical HIV prevention on the
NHAS and the ending of the HIV epidemic. Transgender and nonconforming communities
There is little clinical information about the use of
current biomedical HIV prevention methods on
Capacity Building and Training to strengthen
transgender and gender-nonconforming
organizational effectiveness on PrEP and TasP
services (TGNC) people, especially TGNC people of color.
We need capacity building and training programs However, according to the CDC, HIV prevalence rates
through the spectrum of stakeholders involved in among trans women of color are exceptionally high.
making sure biomedical HIV prevention is understood More than half of all new transmissions among women
and utilized by the populations in need. All involved and men of trans experience are African American.
require learning, from the person looking for PrEP or This track focuses on qualitative and quantitative data
viral suppression to the community-based care and on TGNC people of color and biomedical prevention
service providers, health clinic employees, doctors, interventions (PrEP, PEP, TasP). The track will also
and nurses. These education modalities include peer- discuss the barriers and facilitators for implementing
education models, curriculum development, capacity programs and access to biomedical HIV prevention
building, collaborative learning, medical education, and modalities among communities of TGNC experience.
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TRACK DESCRIPTIONS
Cisgender Women and PrEP Implementation Research and Evaluation
There is little clinical information about current This track will discuss current approaches to
biomedical HIV prevention methods on cisgender implementation science and evaluation related to
women. However, according to the CDC, cisgender biomedical HIV prevention and how they can inform
women comprise 19% of the new cases reported in the evidence-based interventions to increase PrEP
United States for 2018. This track focuses on qualitative awareness and uptake.
and quantitative data on cisgender women and
biomedical HIV prevention. The way will also discuss Prevención biomédica para personas
the barriers and facilitators for implementing programs hispanoparlantes
and access to biomedical HIV prevention modalities for Nota: Solo se aceptarán propuestas escritas en español.
cisgender women.
Note: Only abstracts written in Spanish will be
accepted.
Community participation and representation in HIV
biomedical prevention research El acceso de las comunidades hispanoparlantes a los
This track will discuss practical strategies for making avances de prevención biomédica del VIH, depende
HIV biomedical prevention research more reflective del acceso que estas poseen a la información y al
of the communities most vulnerable to new HIV cuidado médico. Es por eso que hemos diseñado
transmissions. In addition to sharing effective methods esta área temática en español. En él se discutirán
at diversifying HIV research, this track will focus on avances en las modalidades de PrEP y tratamiento,
how CAP/CAB organizers can ensure meaningful las barreras para accederlos y el rol de la comunidad y
participation from people living with HIV, especially las organizaciones de base comunitaria en cerrar esta
queer, transgender, bisexual people of color (QTBIPOC) brecha. También se busca profundizar en el efecto
living with HIV. desproporcional de la epidemia en personas latinas, y el
impacto del racismo y el estatus migratorio.
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April 6, 2022 National Minority AIDS Council 1000 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 200 Washington, D.C. 20005-4903 Dear Annual Biomedical HIV Summit Attendees, I am pleased to welcome everyone to the National Minority AIDS Council’s Annual Biomedical HIV Summit. This event elevates the stories and experiences of often underrepresented persons, ensuring their perspectives on living with AIDS and HIV are included in larger conversations about ending the HIV epidemic and destigmatizing people living with HIV (PLWH). By educating people about these issues, the National Minority AIDS Council is working to eliminate the stigma and racism surrounding HIV, as well as the HIV epidemic itself. I applaud the work the National Minority AIDS Council is doing for PLWH. You have my best wishes for a successful event. Sincerely, Governor JB Pritzker
HOTEL MAP
Floors - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk
Floors - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk
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EXHIBITORS
EXHIBITOR TABLE #
AHF Pharmacy 12
American Academy Of HIV Medicine 14
American Exchange 20
Arianna’s Center Puerto Rico 2
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health
Forum 19
Avita Pharmacy 22
Curant Health 9
Gilead 3-4
Host Committee 24
Janssen Infectious Diseases and Vaccines 15
MISTR 13
NASTAD 8
NMAC 1
O’Neil Institute 6
OraSure Techologies Inc 18
Prevention Access Campaign 23
Q Care+ 5
R&S Northeast, LLC 16
Say It With A Condom 11
Southern AIDS Coalition 7
Stanford University 17
ViiV Healthcare 10
12 2022 BIOMEDICAL HIV PREVENTION SUMMITEXHIBITORS
7 8 9 10 11A
ViiV
Southern
AIDS
Coalition
Curant Health
Healthcare
Say it With
A Condom
NASTAD
11B
AHF Pharmacy
O'Neil Institute 12
6
MISTR
13
Q Care+
American
5 Academy Of
HIV Medicine
14
Janssen
Infectious
Diseases and
Vaccines
15
4 Gilead
3 R&S Northeast, LLC
16
Stanford
University
Arianna's Center Puerto Rico 17
2
Orasure
18
NMAC
Asian & Pacific
1 Islander American
Access Campaign
Host Committee
Health Forum
19
Prevention
Pharmacy
American
Exchange
Avita
20
24 23 22
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4/20 SUMMIT MORNING PLENARY
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
8:30 am – 10:00 am
MORNING PLENARY
The role of biomedical prevention in ending the HIV epidemic
Location: Chicago Ballrooms 4-7, Level 4
We must continue the conversation on ending the epidemic. Well-planned and coordinated efforts with clear
indicators and evidence-based interventions will allow us to end HIV. This plenary will discuss the specifics of
well-planned PrEP/TasP initiatives and the indicators to show a relevant and sustainable impact, and how this
impact directly contributes to the steady decline and end of HIV infections in America.
Speakers
Demetre C. Daskalakis, MD,
MPH, Director, Division of HIV
Prevention (DHP), National Center Arianna Lint, Founder, Arianna’s
for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD & TB Center
Prevention, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
Abraham Johnson, MPH, HIV
Terrell Parker, ESCALATE Manager,
Community Engagement Officer,
The Center, NMAC
Treatment Access Group
Mariah Wilberg, Senior Director,
Amy Killelea, JD, Killelea U.S. Strategy & Ending the
Consulting Epidemic, Prevention Access
Campaign
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4/20 SUMMIT WORKSHOPS: SESSION 1
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Session 1 Workshops
16-Week STEM Program For Black Youth in San 19 pandemic aggravated the situation. It will briefly
Francisco review the problems that affect the availability,
Location: Mississippi, Level 2 access, and acceptability of medical services that
Track: Community mobilization and advocacy are essential to provide PrEP; or medical care in
strategies proven to have an impact order to achieve U=U. Emphasis will be placed on the
Level: Beginner uncommon factors that contribute to the problem
Presenter: (i.e., trauma). Presenters will use some of the
Antwan D. Matthews, BS, Code Tenderloin, Berkeley, tools provided in the PrEP for Managers trainings.
California Through a participatory process, the complexity of
the different barriers that are preventing the Latin
Several organizations have funded Code Tenderloin community from reaching the neutral status of
since last year’s pilot program for Empowering Black eliminating HIV transmission will be brought to the
Youth (EBY). Each year, our EBY internships build out surface. Finally, the presenters will provide additional
different Public Health modules to address sexually information, as well as open the room for questions
transmitted infections amongst Black youth. Since and answers.
last year, our Empowering Black Youth Program has
grown into an internship and a fellowship for year 2.
Enhancing Provider Response to HIV PrEP/
This year’s cohort is gaining skillsets in film, public
Treatment Services for Black Gay Men
health, technology, and community development
to find innovative ways to engage Black youth in Location: Michigan A, Level 2
decision-making for social determinants that directly Track: Capacity Building and Training to strengthen
affect the Black community in San Francisco. The organizational effectiveness on PrEP and TasP
EBY Program is working with participants now to services
develop a community film project to display at our Level: Intermediate
first EBY festival to demonstrate to community Presenters:
members how Black youth are getting engaged Henry Ross, MSPH, University of Rochester-Center
to decrease sexually transmitted infections. Our for Community Practice, Rochester, New York
program helps reduce educational and financial Maureen Scahill, NP, MS, University of Rochester-
barriers as our interns matriculate through this Center for Community Practice, Rochester, New York
multifaceted program.
The University of Rochester-Center for Community
Practice has developed a face-to-face course entitled
Como aumentar el acceso de Latines a la Culturally Responsive HIV PrEP and Treatment
Prevención Biomédica Services for Black Gay Men (CR Workshop), and
(Presented in Spanish with English interpretation) an adapted version of this course for delivery in
Location: Michigan B, Level 2 a virtual setting. This presentation will navigate
Track: Prevención biomédica para personas participants through the CR Workshop curriculum,
hispanoparlantes which uses the lens of anti-Black racism to critically
Level: Intermediate examine intersectional stigmas and other forms
Presenter: of discrimination at intrapersonal, interpersonal
Miguel Chion, MD, MPH, CAI, Glendale, California and multi-structural levels. Participants will gain
understanding about the CR Workshop’s structure
During this workshop the status of HIV in Latino and design, review summaries of didactic content
communities will be reviewed. Specifically, the and experience key exercises that highlight this
disproportionate gap in new HIV cases (29% cases process.
versus 14% of the population) and how the COVID
2022 BIOMEDICAL HIV PREVENTION SUMMIT 15WED
4/20 SUMMIT WORKSHOPS: SESSION 1
Getting more providers to be U=U Champions mobilization campaign, K.I.S.S. (keep it safe and
Location: Sheraton Balltoom 1, Level 4 sexy) & Tell. The multi-faceted intervention K.I.S.S.
Track: Capacity Building and Training to strengthen & Tell is designed to impact HIV disparities among
organizational effectiveness on PrEP and TasP Black women through addressing HIV risk behaviors
services and facilitating community support for their health
Level: Intermediate and well-being.
Presenters:
Carole Treston, RN MPH ACRN FAAN, Association of
No Data No More: Manifesto aligns research and
Nurses in AIDS Care, Uniontown, Ohio
TGNC realities
John Parisot, PhD, MSN, RN, ACRN, Michael Reese
Foundation/Mercy Hospital Care Program/ANAC, Location: Colorado, Level 2
Chicago, Illinois Track: Transgender and Gender Nonconforming
Sarah Williams, MSN, FNP-BC, ANP-BC, AAHIV-S, Communities
Michael Reese Care Program/ANAC, Chicago, Illinois Level: Intermediate
Presenters:
This session is meant for consumers, peer educators Brian Minalga, MSW, Fred Hutchinson Cancer
and advocates and clinical and community Research Center, Seattle, Washington
providers. After a mini review of the U=U evidence, Leigh Ann van der Merwe, Social, Health and
attendees will examine barriers to widespread U=U Empowerment Feminist Collective of Transgender
acceptance and messaging by providers. Strategies Women of Africa, East London, Eastern Cape
for developing partnerships and achievable actions Tori Cooper, Director of Community Engagement
that support the uptake of accessible and digestible for the Transgender Justice Initiative, Human Rights
U=U conversations using supportive language, Campaign, Washington, DC
tailored for busy clinical practices or community
organizations, will be shared. Exploring the real- The No Data No More Manifesto, written by trans and
life experiences of client and provider workshop gender-diverse (TGD) advocates from Cape Town to
participants along with the use of interactive case Cologne, with support from AVAC, offers practical
studies to identify challenges faced by clients and and essential priorities for meaningful change. The
providers will explore solutions that inform best future must include peer-led HIV prevention research
practices for implementation after the summit. with true ownership, acceptability and viability in
TGD communities. The historic neglect of trans-
inclusion in HIV research has resulted in lack of
Having Our Say: Including Black Women in HIV effective HIV interventions, programs and services
Prevention for trans people. The Manifesto offers a vision for a
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 2, Level 4 research agenda that centers trans people, rather
Track: Cisgender Women and PrEP than subsuming them into statistically insignificant
Level: Intermediate subgroups. This workshop sheds light on the
Presenters: TGD experience and the role of gender-affirming
Sharita J. Ambrose, MPH, CHES, CHWI, Allure therapy, and the HIV prevention research landscape,
Alliance, Elgin, Texas including its historical gaps and recent progress.
La’Toya Swan, BS, CHES, CHWI, Allure Alliance, The workshop puts forward the Manifesto’s relevant
Austin, Texas and inclusive TGD research agenda, offering public
recommendations to finally fulfill an inclusive HIV
The purpose of this presentation is to share research future where TGD people flourish in all their
insights from Black women regarding the viability diversity.
of culturally-relevant HIV prevention community
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4/20 SUMMIT WORKSHOPS: SESSION 1
Promoting PrEP & Ensuring its Coverage & for new HIV diagnosis in the black community was
Affordability 8 times that of their white counterparts and for
Location: Mayfair, Level 2 the Latinx community, it was 4 times that of their
Track: Finance and Access Models white counterparts. When considering individuals
Level: Intermediate who partake in chemsex, sex while on mind-altering
Presenter: psychoactive drugs, the risk for contracting HIV
Carl E. Schmid, MBA, BA, HIV + Hepatitis Policy increases due to lowered inhibition and engagement
Institute, Washington, District of Columbia in risky unsafe sex practices. This interactive
The workshop will educate attendees about presentation aims to increase knowledge of the
efforts to create national programs to increase underground and sexual cultures of PrEP and how
the promotion of PrEP to those communities that to increase accessibility, acceptably, adherence for
are most in need of it, along with their providers. these priority populations.
Additionally, ways in which PrEP can be covered and
made affordable now and in the future by various
The Power of Togetherness: Building Future HIV
payers including private insurers, Medicaid, and
Advocates
Medicare will be discussed. Implementation barriers
will be identified along with potential steps that can Location: Missouri, Level 2
be taken to overcome them. Ideas on how to provide Track: Community participation and representation in
PrEP to the uninsured and underinsured will also HIV biomedical prevention research
be explored. Attendees will have an opportunity Level: Beginner
to provide input on the proposals presented and Presenters:
learn what advocacy is needed to ensure the goal Myriam P. Johnstone, Black AIDS Institute, SYLMAR,
of increasing the uptake of PrEP, particularly in the California
communities most impacted by HIV, will be achieved. Abraham Johnstone, MPH, Treatment Action Group,
Durham, North Carolina
Responsible Hoeing: Understanding Underground In 2019, the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN)
& Chemsex Culture in Black/Latinx Communities partnered with the Black AIDS Institute (BAI) and
(La interpretación en español está disponible) Treatment Action Group (TAG) to develop “We The
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 3, Level 4 People Research Cohort” (WTPRC), a 16-week, first-
Track: The Underground and Sexual Culture of PrEP of-its-kind certification program for HIV prevention
Level: Beginner research advocates, created through a uniquely
Presenters: and unapologetically Black lens. In 2021, after
Steven A. Lopez, REACH LA, Los Angeles, California reviewing lessons learned from its first cohort and
Miguel Bujanda, REACH LA, Los Angeles, California the addition of the Southern AIDS Coalition (SAC)
to the partnership, the program was re-launched
Since the introduction of PrEP back in 2012, there with an increased retention and graduation rate.
has been a decrease in the amount of new HIV This workshop will provide best practices and
infections by 73% between 1984 and 2019 and 9% strategies to engage underrepresented populations
between 2015 and 2019. However, these downward in biomedical HIV research to increase their
trends are not seen in every community. Black visibility in the field of HIV advocacy, the process of
and Latinx people account for a disproportionate designing curricula on biomedical prevention, and
share of new HIV diagnoses. As of 2019, the rate the power of collective impact among HIV advocacy
organizations.
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4/20 SUMMIT AFTERNOON PLENARY
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
AFTERNOON PLENARY
Grinding stigma in the underground. Negotiating sex in the app’s world
Location: Chicago Ballrooms 4-7, Level 4
Stigma acts like a virus. It invades the self-esteem cells of a person. It incapacitates the self-worth system that
protects the individual from discriminatory words and attitudes from uneducated individuals who constantly
judge and stigmatize people living with HIV (PLWH). We witness vicious attacks when PLWH disclose their
status or freely enjoy sex with condoms or undetectable viral load. Racism is also displayed in hook up apps.
Stigma is pervasive and reigns over the underground world of app’s hookups for sex. This plenary is about
having an open discussion about stigma and how it plays out in the virtual space of social/sexual apps like
Grindr, Scruff, Adam4Adam, BarebackRT, and Jack’d. Grinding stigma is fundamental for a healthy self-worth
system and HIV-free humans.
Presenters
Jen Hecht, Building Healthy Online Communities (BHOC)
Alexi Diaz, NMAC Constituent Advisory Panel
Jax Kelly, President, Let’s Kick ASS Palm Springs
Lauren Miller, Program Coordinator, NMAC
Porchia Dees, Executive Committee Member and Chair of the Vertical
Special Interest Group, National HIV & Aging Advocacy Network (NHAAN)
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4/20 SUMMIT WORKSHOPS: SESSION 2
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm Session 2 Workshops
Access through Equity: Realizing PrEP’s Potential This workshop will present models of community-
for Black Women’s Health academic HIV research partnerships based
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 2, Level 4 on lessons learned from two partnerships in
Track: Cisgender Women and PrEP Chicago, IL - one with Black and one with
Level: Intermediate Latina/x/o communities. In 2021, two partnerships
Presenters: were established between community-based
Erin Starzyk, PhD, MPH, HealthHIV, Washington, organizations (CBOs) and academic research
District of Columbia institutions to orient an intentional HIV research
Michelle Lopez, Mt. Sinai, New York City, New York agenda responsive to Chicago’s Black and Latina/
Matthew Prior, MPH, HealthHIV, Washington, District x/o community’s priorities. One partnership is
of Columbia comprised of Black sexual and gender minority
youth and researchers, while another partnership
The speakers will unpack the social determinants is comprised of Latina/x/o HIV health professionals
of health that impact Black women’s health and at CBOs and researchers. Each model presents
outline comprehensive and sustainable strategies unique opportunities for meaningful engagement
to provide more equitable and culturally responsive of queer and transgender Black, Indigenous, and
healthcare related to HIV prevention, specifically people of color (QTBIPOC) in research leadership.
PrEP. We will also walk through three case studies The workshop will share the history of these
outlining Black women’s experiences accessing partnerships, ideas for future directions and
PrEP. Through these case studies, the speakers will invite attendees to discuss current or prospective
contextualize the experiences and outline the multi- partnerships in their local communities.
level barriers and challenges Black women continue
to face when accessing PrEP services and how this
ESCALATE: Strengthening Organizational
impacts quality of care. Lastly, the speakers will
Effectiveness through Stigma Reduction &
outline data-informed strategies to mitigate barriers
Elimination
experienced by Black women when trying to obtain
PrEP services. Location: Mississippi, Level 2
Track: Capacity Building and Training to strengthen
organizational effectiveness on PrEP and TasP
Black and Latina/x/o Community-Engaged HIV services
Research Partnerships in Chicago Level: Beginner
(La interpretación en español está disponible) Presenters:
Location: Michigan B, Level 2 Terrell D. Parker, BA, NMAC, Washington, District of
Track: Community participation and representation in Columbia
HIV biomedical prevention research Christopher J. Paisano, BS, NMAC, Washington,
Level: Beginner District of Columbia
Presenter: Cora Cartagena, MPH, NMAC, Washington, District of
Pedro A. Serrano, MPH, CPH, CORE Center at Cook Columbia
County Health, Chicago, Illinois John Guidry, MPH, TRX Development Solutions, New
Christopher V. Balthazar, MA, Taskforce, Chicago, York
Illinois
Darnell Motley, PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, HIV stigma has created multiple barriers to HIV
Illinois care and prevention services. “ESCALATE” (Ending
Gregory Phillips, PhD, Northwestern University, Stigma through Collaboration And Lifting All To
Chicago, Illinois Empowerment) is an innovative approach to address
this issue. NMAC created ESCALATE to reflect its
mission and relationship to the communities of
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people with HIV. NMAC “leads with race” as the Victoria Ortega, AHF, Los Angeles, California
burdens of the HIV/AIDS epidemic are most deeply AHF’s Affinity Groups are volunteer-driven social
felt in racial and ethnic minority communities. HIV groups that innovatively and effectively address
stigma reflects structural inequities and amplifies barriers to health access that are attributed to
the multiple stigmas experienced by communities cultural, socio–economic, and political factors. By
impacted by HIV based on their race, ethnicity, providing “Edutainment” experiences, AHF’s affinity
sexual orientation, gender identity, social status, groups bring the conversation around stigma, sexual
mental health and substance use, and relationship to health and wellness to the community on a relatable
sex work or incarceration. interpersonal level.
ESCALATE uses training, technical assistance, and
learning collaboratives with the aim of reducing Solving America’s PrEP Failure: A National
HIV stigma at the individual, organizational and Financing and Delivery Program
systems level, thus improving effective and long- Location: Michigan A, Level 2
lasting access to HIV care. Attendees will participate Track: Finance and Access Models
in an interactive workshop designed to preview the Level: Intermediate
ESCALATE experience. Presenters:
Jeremiah Johnson, MPH, PrEP4All, Brooklyn, New
York
Existing in the Margins: The Transmasculine Julia Zigman, BA, NACCHO, Washington, District of
Community Columbia
Location: Colorado, Level 2 Armonté Butler, BA, Johns Hopkins University
Track: Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore,
Communities Maryland
Level: Intermediate
Presenter: In 2021, Johns Hopkins University faculty and
Tyree Williams, AA, Brothers Obtaining and colleagues developed a policy proposal for a
Navigating Dynamic Solidarity (BONDS), Virginia national U.S. program – the “Federal PrEP Program”
Beach, Virginia – to address the low and inequitable uptake of PrEP
for HIV prevention in the U.S. and the fragmented
Existing in the Margins examines the exclusionary and broken PrEP financing and delivery system for
navigation transmasculine communities face the uninsured and those on Medicaid. The proposal
discovering and accessing sexual and reproductive recommends a centralized federal purchasing
health services. Through a panel discussion mechanism for PrEP medications and labs, and
attendees will receive first hand narratives from broad distribution channels through both clinical and
transmasculine panelists and be provided resources non-clinical community providers. Implementing an
to evaluate the inclusion of transmasculine ambitious new plan will take political commitment
communities in their sexual and reproductive and buy-in from HIV providers and people who
services. would benefit from PrEP. An author of the proposal
will discuss key features of the policy and lead
audience members and a panel of community
Radical Intersectionality Among Communities of and public health partners in a discussion on
Cultural Influencers and Health Advocates the proposal’s implications, implementation
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 1, Level 4 considerations, and how to build support for a
Track: Community mobilization and advocacy federal PrEP program.
strategies proven to have an impact
Level: Beginner
Presenters:
Lucas A. Rojas, BS, FLUX- AHF, Los Angeles,
California
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HIV Status Neutral: Voices from the Ground HIV in their early childhood. Vertical Long-Term
Location: Mayfair, Level 2 Survivors face many similar issues that other people
Track: The National HIV/AIDS Strategy on aging with HIV face, but often at earlier ages.
implementing PrEP This panel, comprised of leaders and members
Level: Advanced from the National HIV & Aging Advocacy Network,
Presenters: will discuss lessons learned from decades of health
Ashwini Hardikar, MPH, Callen-Lorde Community advocacy. Topics will range from:
Health Center, New York, New York • History of U=U and how it’s changed over the
Jorge Soler, PhD, MPH, New York Blood Center, New years
York, New York • Polypharmacy and navigating health systems/
being a self-advocate Transitioning from pediatric
Now adopted by state, local, and federal health HIV care to adult HIV care
agencies, “Status Neutral” is an emerging framework • Lessons learned from starting a national HIV
and approach for providing HIV-related services advocacy network
that centers equitable access to prevention and care
resources regardless of HIV status. The status neutral
framework aims to empower service providers and Role of pharmacists’ along the HIV prevention
lessen HIV stigma. However, many providers are and treatment continuum
unaware of what “status neutral” means and how Location: Missouri, Level 2
it can be implemented. This workshop highlights Track: The National HIV/AIDS Strategy on
the voices of HIV service providers who have implementing PrEP
adopted status neutral frameworks in their agencies, Level: Beginner
revealing successes, challenges, and lessons learned. Presenters
Participants will learn about the impact of status Kenric Ware, PharmD, Joseph H. Neal Health
neutral approaches on overall patient wellness Collaborative, Columbia, South Carolina
and satisfaction. Additionally, participants will be Russell Campbell, MA, Office of HIV/AIDS Network
encouraged to brainstorm ways to enact status Coordination (HANC) - Fred Hutch, Seattle,
neutral frameworks in their own agencies. Washington
Pharmacists’ knowledge and accessibility in nearly
Diverse Perspectives on Aging with HIV from every urban and rural community can be leveraged
Members of the National HIV & Aging Advocacy as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention and
Network (NHAAN) care strategy to expand access to care and improve
population health. As trusted health care professionals,
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 3, Level 4
pharmacists develop trust and a strong rapport with
Track: Community mobilization and advocacy
patients and may be the key to addressing current
strategies proven to have an impact
disparities in PrEP-prescribing patterns as well as
Level: Intermediate
serving as an essential liaison between patients and
Presenters:
other members of the multidisciplinary care team.
Convening Members from the National HIV & Aging
Pharmacists and community pharmacies should be
Advocacy Network (NHAAN) utilized to expand rapid, point-of-care HIV testing in
communities. In addition, studies have shown that
The National HIV & Aging Advocacy Network engaging pharmacists as key players in a care team
(NHAAN) advocates for our collective and cumulative can increase retention in care and adherence to ART
interests as persons aging with HIV. We envision a and maintain viral suppression. This workshop will
world in which all people thrive as they age with HIV. highlight multiple capabilities of pharmacists to HIV
NHAAN has put in tremendous work over the past prevention and care considerations as part of the
year to expand our network to include individuals who National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States 2022
have been living with HIV since birth or who acquired – 2025.
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4/20 SUMMIT WORKSHOPS: SESSION 3
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Session 3 Workshops
BLUPrInt: Tools and Resources for Building The COVID-19 global pandemic ushered in an era
Equity-Focused PrEP Services of unprecedented partnership across industries to
Location: Michigan A, Level 2 respond to this public health crisis. Among them
Track: Capacity Building and Training to strengthen was collaboration between faith communities and
organizational effectiveness on PrEP and TasP services the scientific community. Faith — much like scientific
Level: Advanced research — is rooted in the desire for abundant life
Presenters: for all, with healing as a key tenant in every sacred
Sarit A. Golub, PhD, MPH, Hunter College and text. This workshop will review a model implemented
Graduate Center of the City University of New York, in Northern Georgia during the COVID-19 pandemic
New York, New York that leveraged both spirituality and science to
Kathrine Meyers, DrPH, MS, MPP, Columbia University deliver comprehensive COVID-19 education and
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York, information to the most vulnerable populations,
New York with sensitivity to diverse belief systems. Join the
Executive Director of Foundations for Living and the
Participants will be introduced to BLUPrInt (www. Founder of UBtheCURE to hear best practices and
hivbluprint.org), a resource hub with materials explore how this model can be a framework for HIV/
to help clinics and service providers create and AIDS education, and other health disparities.
strengthen their HIV prevention programs, focused
on health equity. Workshop leaders will explain the
Follow the Experts - Developing Teen-Centered
rationale behind and organization of the website and
Social Marketing Campaigns
introduce its three core components: 1) Key Topics,
comprehensive and easily digestible reviews of the Location: Mayfair, Level 2
scientific literature most relevant to engaging and Track: Community participation and representation in
supporting patients; 2) the Program Builder, a toolbox HIV biomedical prevention research
of programmatic guidelines, standard operating Level: Intermediate
procedures (SOPs), checklists, trainings, metrics, and Presenters:
other tools to build or enhance a PrEP program; 3) Kathryn Macapagal, PhD, Department of Medical
the Planning Roadmap, an annotated list of activities Social Sciences, Department of Psychiatry &
to help sites plan the introduction of PrEP into their Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University,
clinical services and track their progress. Participants Chicago, Illinois
will be asked to share common implementation Silvia Valadez-Tapia, M.A., AIDS Foundation Chicago,
problems they have observed or experienced in their Chicago, Illinois
PrEP program, will be shown resources that address Jim Pickett, HIV Advocate, Chicago, Illinois
their problem, and taught how to use them.
Young people make up a substantial number
of new HIV diagnoses every year in the United
COVID-19 Kept Us Apart but Brought Faith and States, with sexual and gender minority (SGM)
Science Together! youth experiencing unacceptably high rates. Teens
Location: Colorado, Level 2 deserve developmentally and culturally literate social
Track: Community mobilization and advocacy marketing campaigns that speak to them directly.
strategies proven to have an impact Yet there are little to no PrEP social marketing
Level: Intermediate specifically designed for SGM teens, which is likely a
Presenters: contributing factor in the under-utilization of PrEP in
Sande Bailey-Gwinn, Doctor of Christian Ministry, this vulnerable population. PrEP4Teens is a teen-led,
Foundations For Living, Commerce, Georgia interdisciplinary, and collaborative project in Cook
Ulysses Burley, Doctor, UBtheCURE, LLC, Commerce, County, IL in which teens are being empowered to
Georgia create their own social marketing campaign about
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4/20 SUMMIT WORKSHOPS: SESSION 3
PrEP, including ideas for community mobilization Philadelphia’s Citywide TelePrEP Program
activities. In addition to an explanation of the Location: Missouri, Level 2
engagement process, drafts of the teens’ first round Track: Finance and Access Models
of work and activation plans will be shared. In small Level: Intermediate
groups, participants will practice components of this Presenters:
teen-led approach while engaging in a creative rapid Javontae Lee Williams, MPH, Philadelphia
planning exercise, spotlighting their own jurisdiction. Department of Public Health, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Kathleen A. Brady, MD, Philadelphia Department of
Long-Acting Antiretroviral Injectables and Broadly
Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Neutralizing Antibodies - What’s New?
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 2, Level 4 This workshop will provide participants with a unique
Track: Capacity Building and Training to strengthen opportunity to understand how a community and
organizational effectiveness on PrEP and TasP public health authority can plan for and implement
services a new telemedicine model for HIV prevention
Level: Intermediate program. The workshop will include: (1) an overview
Presenters: of the context of Philadelphia’s experience with
Russell Campbell, MA, Office of HIV/AIDS Network PrEP including its challenges and promises, (2)
Coordination (HANC) - Fred Hutch, Seattle, demographics of priority PrEP populations, (3)
Washington planned program goals including how the structure
Michael Stirratt, PhD, National Institute of Mental is designed to make the TelePrEP program financially
Health (NIMH) Division of AIDS Research, Rockville, self-sufficient by the end of the first year of
Maryland operation, and (4) the framework for evaluation. The
Christopher Hucks-Ortiz, MPH, HealthHIV, Los workshop will combine a visual presentation with
Angeles, California the opportunity to explore questions in real time as
Typhanye Dyer, PhD, MPH, University of Maryland, they emerge. The session will end with a facilitated
Baltimore, Maryland exercise to generate a joint consensus statement
reflecting the lessons learned by participants at the
Although oral antiretroviral medicines are the workshop regarding the promise of telemedicine for
cornerstone of contemporary approches to HIV HIV prevention in the age of PrEP.
treatment and prevention, clinical trial research is
advancing new HIV regimens that are long-acting
and which do not require daily use, allowing for more
individual options. 2021 was a watershed year for Sex Positive interventions towards Chemsex and
these long-acting HIV regimens -- it opened with the PrEP for Latino MSM
US FDA approval of the first long-acting injectable (La interpretación en español está disponible)
regimen for HIV treatment, and closed with the first Location: Sheraton Ballroom 3, Level 4
US FDA approval the first long-acting injectable Track: The Underground and Sexual Culture of PrEP
regimen for HIV prevention (PrEP) – and both are Level: Intermediate
now approved for bimonthly administration. Long- Presenters:
acting HIV treatment and PrEP are at the leading Oscar R. Lopez, Poderosos, Harlingen, Texas
front in a wider effort to develop a variety of long- Sean Bland, JD, O’Neil Institute, Georgetown
acting regimens for HIV treatment and prevention, University, Washington, District of Columbia
which include broadly neutralizing antibodies. The Oralia Loza, Ph.D., University of Texas - El Paso, El
novelty of these regimens will require efforts to Paso, Texas
educate our communities about their availability and
use. HIV prevention efforts nationwide must prioritize
PrEP and PEP uptake for Methamphetamine using
Latino men who have sex with men (MSM). National
HIV prevention efforts have long underprioritized
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4/20 SUMMIT WORKSHOPS: SESSION 3
the health and wellbeing of Borderland communities, prevention and treatment. This workshop will be
Latino MSM and especially Latino MSM at highest interactive, and provide attendees with a greater
risk for HIV exposure, overdoses, and transactional level of understanding the intersectionality of being
sex due to their use of meth which facilitates TGNC, having undergone surgeries, and how DEI
uninhibited condomless sex with multiple partners. efforts must include this demographic.
Bilingual interventions that support meth using
MSM with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and
harm reduction strategies while addressing social We Didn’t Know - It was designed that way!
determinants of health are needed especially across Location: Sheraton Ballroom 1, Level 4
Southern states and along the U.S. – Mexican border Track: Cisgender Women and PrEP
where homophobia and racism are rampant, and Level: Beginner
legislators have been reluctant to enact syringe Presenters:
exchange legislation. This presentation explores how Alicia E. Diggs, MPH, BSW, University of North
to engage meth using Latino MSM and promote Carolina-Chapel Hill, Burlington, North Carolina
PrEP, PEP and viral suppression based on work Alecia Tramel-McIntyre, Positive People Network, Inc.,
conducted along the 830 mile stretch of the Texas – Miami, Florida
Mexico Border. Rita McDaniel, Community Representative, Durham,
North Carolina
Melanie Reese, Community Representative,
Thinking Inclusively: The intersection of HIV, TGNC Baltimore, Maryland
and Gender-Affirming Surgeries
(La interpretación en español está disponible) This workshop will provide informed information and
education to all cisgender women and those working
Location: Michigan B, Level 2
on ending the HIV epidemic. We have a dream that
Track: Transgender and Gender Nonconforming
all women, especially Black, Indigenous, and People
Communities
of Color (BIPOC), will have access to all healthcare
Level: Beginner
services and programs. There is a lack of information
Presenter:
and education provided to cisgender women
Colton Gibbons, MPS, CAKE Society Co., Arlington,
regarding PEP and PrEP availability and usage. The
Virginia
goal of PrEP is to prevent people from exposure
to HIV. Truvada is the only medication available to
The purpose of this workshop is to invite attendees
cisgender women. PrEP has been available since
to broaden their understanding and education
2012 and was designed for MSM, Young MSM, and
behind the TGNC population and how HIV impacts
Transgender women, which has resulted in the lack
those planning for, or having different surgeries.
of resources and infrastructure to provide PrEP for
This workshop will engage attendees in new ways
cisgender women in settings they use for healthcare.
of understanding TGNC populations. It will address
This is the contributing factor for the steady HIV
issues related to inclusivity in HIV education,
transmission rates of cisgender women.
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4/21 SUMMIT MORNING PLENARY
Thursday, April 21, 2022
8:30 am – 10:00 am
MORNING PLENARY
Can Fantasies Become Realities? The Quest for Multi-purpose Prevention Products
Location: Chicago Ballrooms 4-7, Level 4
Multipurpose prevention technologies, or MPTs, are designed to simultaneously prevent HIV, other STIs, and/
or unintended pregnancy. Internal and external condoms are the only MPTs currently available and, while
effective, they are less than desirable for many sexually active humans on the planet. However, humans need
and deserve a suite of options, and the more types of protection an option provides, the more likely it will be
used. Expert presenters will share updates and perspectives about the MPT research pipeline, focusing on the
products closest to actual roll-out and implementation
Speakers
Raniyah Copeland, MPH; Founder & Principal of Equity & Impact Solutions
Dr. Craig Hendrix, Wellcome Professor and Director, Division of Clinical
Pharmacology
Jim Pickett, HIV Prevention Research and Implementation Consultant
Lucas A. Rojas, Health Services and Behavioral Research Associate,
Center for Transyouth Health and Development, Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles
2022 BIOMEDICAL HIV PREVENTION SUMMIT 25THU
4/21 SUMMIT WORKSHOPS: SESSION 4
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Session 4 Workshops
Addressing “Addictophobia” to Engage MSM Who Color the Blanks: Radical Clinical/Non-Clinical
Use Drugs in PrEP Dialogues within TGI Communities
(La interpretación en español está disponible) Location: Missouri, Level 2
Location: Sheraton Ballroom 3, Level 4 Track: Transgender and Gender Nonconforming
Track: The Underground and Sexual Culture of PrEP Communities
Level: Intermediate Level: Intermediate
Presenters: Presenters:
William Schlesinger, BA, UCLA David Geffen School Xelestial Moreno-Luz, REACH LA, Los Angeles,
of Medicine and Department of Anthropology, Los California
Angeles, California Sandy Nguyen, REACH LA, Los Angeles, California
Steve Shoptaw, University of California, Los Angeles,
Los Angeles, California Transgender, Gender-Non-Conforming, and Intersex
Russell Campbell, MA, Office of HIV/AIDS Network (TGI) communities have always been here. In the
Coordination (HANC) - Fred Hutchinson, Seattle, past and present, the health of TGI people has been
Washington determined by the effects of societies that deem
Christopher Hucks-Ortiz, MPH, HealthHIV, Los these populations as non-human. This ideology
Angeles, California bounds individuals to negligent health disparities
and disastrous economic limitations in both
Addictophobia is a term that describes an institutional and social realms. This session will shed
exaggerated fear of or aversion to people who light, inform, and expand discourses around harmful
use drugs. In the field of HIV prevention and clinical language impeding access to PrEP, and HIV
treatment, addictophobia helps to explain the under- prevention strategies, in particular highlighting the
representation of drug users in HIV prevention and experiences of Black Indigenous & People of Color
treatment research, inequitable access to treatment (BIPOC) of transgender and gender-nonconforming
for both HIV and substance use disorders, and experience. Matching historical knowledge with
under-utilization of HIV prevention tools, including present-day data will allow attendees to see how the
PrEP (Strathdee et al. 2012). Addictophobia past compares with the present. Finally, attendees
manifests on both interpersonal and structural levels, will experience the healing powers of artmaking
intersecting with other forms of marginalization and and community sharing through discussing steps
oppression, including racism, to exacerbate health to end transgender inequity in different areas of life
disparities. For instance, even when data indicate including HIV disparities.
that rates of substance use do not differ by race,
substance use is emphasized as a reason for racial/
ethnic disparities in HIV rates and people of color Connect! Developing Youth Programs to Deliver
are often stigmatized as substance users regardless PrEP and TasP Effectively
of whether or not they engage in it. This interactive Location: Sheraton Ballroom 2, Level 4
session addresses the concept of addictophobia as Track: Capacity Building and Training to strengthen
a significant barrier to PrEP scale up and highlights organizational effectiveness on PrEP and TasP
specific strategies that public health and medical services
professionals, along with community health Level: Intermediate
advocates and members of the affected groups Presenter:
themselves, can implement to improve access to and William E. Wheaton, BA, Positive Impact Health
uptake of PrEP for MSM of color who use drugs. Centers, Atlanta, Georgia
Youth programs can be an effective way of
disarming spaces, tackling stigma, and linking clients
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