From July 22nd to 26th, Munich, Germany, will be the stage, in person and virtually, for the 25th International Conference on AIDS, organized by the International AIDS Society. Considered the largest global event on HIV, with more than 200 sessions including symposiums, presentations, posters, debates and the Global Village (space intended for community sharing), AIDS 2024 reaffirms itself as the main platform at the intersection of science and human rights in the global response to the epidemic.

More than 15 thousand participants are expected, including researchers, scientists, health professionals, people living with HIV, stakeholders, funders and community representatives from various countries.

The conference’s agenda includes a wide range of topics ranging from the most recent recommendations from the World Health Organization on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV, other sexually transmitted infections and hepatitis, to issues such as HIV in the context of conflicts. from war, humanitarian crises and criminalization of the virus in some regions, to the discussion of artificial intelligence in the HIV/AIDS universe.

The ImPrEP CAB Brasil project will once again be present at the conference, providing knowledge and answers through the organization of a satellite symposium, oral presentations and posters (check out the program bellow).

Representatives from ImPrEP CAB Brasil will also participate in several sessions of the pre-conference symposium “Welcome to the Era of PrEP Choice”, to be held on Saturday, July 20th, from 3 am to 11:30 am (Brasília time), organized and supported by PEPFAR, Usaid, Unitaid, Bill & Melissa Gates Foundation and World Health Organization.

The event will bring together experts from around the world to address the PrEP product introduction landscape, the transformative potential of prophylaxis choice, key programmatic considerations, and early learnings from efforts to deliver PrEP choice around the world. For the project, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Cristina Pimenta, Mayara Secco, Marcos Benedetti will be present, as well as Brazilians Inês Dourado (PrEP 15-19) and Dráurio Barreira (Ministry of Health).

Another important event in AIDS 2024 will take place at the closing ceremony of the conference, on July 26th, with the inauguration of Beatriz Grinsztejn, head of the Clinical Research Laboratory in STIs and HIV/AIDS, at the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, at Fiocruz , and principal researcher at ImPrEP CAB Brasil, as president of the International AIDS Society for the period 2024-2026. Beatriz will be the first Latin American researcher to hold this position.

Check out the ImPrEP CAB Brasil program at AIDS 2024:

Satellite Symposium “Building on evidence to fosterperson-centered PrEP services: the ImPrEP experience” (room 13A, channel 6)

July 23^rd, Tuesday, available to conference registrants from 7h AM – Germany time

Topics and participants:

– Opening remarks, with Dráurio Barreira (Department of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Viral Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections, of the Brazilian Ministry of Health) and Valdiléa Veloso (Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil – INI/Fiocruz);

– Racial disparities in HIV incidence and PrEP non-adherence among gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW) using oral PrEP in Brazil – ImPrEP Study, with Lucilene Freitas (INI/Fiocruz);

– Factors associated with bacterial sexually transmitted infections among MSM and TGW using oral PrEP in Latin America – ImPrEP Study, with Mayara Secco (INI/Fiocruz);

– Performance of oral PrEP indirect adherence measures among TGW and young MSM in Latin America – ImPrEP Study, with Thiago Torres (INI/Fiocruz);

– Factors associated to HIV seroconversion in the ImPrEP Study, with Carlos Cáceres (Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia)

– Choosing oral or injectable PrEP: perspectives from the ImPrEP CAB Brasil Study, with Cristina Pimenta (INI/Fiocruz);

– Final Remarks, with Valdiléa Veloso (INI/Fiocruz).

Oral presentation

– Food insecurity directly impacts adherence to antiretroviral therapy and to PrEP among sexual and gender minorities in Brazil, with Paula Luz (INI/Fiocruz) et al. (OAC2902 – Track C)

Posters

– Stimulant use and its correlates in MSM and TGW populations: an analysis in a multi-country Context – ImPrEP Study, with Carolina Coutinho (INI/Fiocruz) and ImPrEP Study Group (WEPEB143 Track B)

– Impact of substance use on PrEP adherence among MSM and TGW in Latin America: a sub-analysis of the ImPrEP Study, with Hamid Vega-Ramirez (National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico)et al (THPEC196  Track C)

– High syphilis incidence among PrEP adherent Peruvian men who have sex with men and trans women PrEP users, with Silver Vargas (Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia) et al. (TUPEC214 Track C)

– Depression among TGW and MSM from Brazil, Mexico, and Peru: who has the highest odds?, with Hamid Vega-Ramirez (National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico) andImPrEP Study Group (WEPED439 Track D)

INI/Fiocruz

The activities of ImPrEP CAB Brasil are part of the INI/Fiocruz program, which, at the conference, will present a wide and varied range of work not only on HIV and PrEP, but also on viral hepatitis, mpox, Covid-19, tuberculosis , substance use and chemsex, among other topics (to see the complete INI program, access https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l9N1Laj4F7naF5Bz-Oj6I3kSJm3fuI0zNYVV76Rb1HI/edit?usp=drive_link).

Also noteworthy is “Cooking with PrEPina Blue”, at Global Village, with the presentation of the pilot episode of a series of video interviews carried out by the character who gives the program its title, created to disseminate information about the combined prevention and treatment of HIV and other ISTs, with simple, accessible language and lots of humor. The guests interviewed are researchers, health professionals and digital influencers involved in HIV and STI research, treatment and care in peripheral communities in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (the episode will be shown on 7/24 at 3PM – German time – GVFS17).