Globally‚ women make up more than half of those infected with HIV. Women have been hit hard by the epidemic due to a complex mix of biologic susceptibility‚ social and economic vulnerability‚ and complex behavioral factors. In the past year‚ results from a number of clinical trials have demonstrated that antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) can be potent tools to reduce HIV transmission. However‚ the social and economic factors that drive the global epidemic also present challenges for bringing those tools to the women most in need.
Challenges and opportunities for preventing HIV in women by using ARVs were highlighted at this FHI 360 forum.
Supporting Documents
PowerPoint: by Lori Heise
A Day of Promise, A Day of Reckoning: Making ARV-based prevention work for women
PowerPoint: by Elizabeth Tolley
Planning for PrEP with Women in Mind: Why targeting the “Most-at-Risk” is likely to miss Most Women at Risk
PowerPoint: by Nduku Kilonzo
Women and ARVs for HIV prevention: What do we need to think about?
PowerPoint: by Dazon Dixon Diallo
Social, Structural, and Historical Dimensions of Integrating ARV-Based HIV Prevention into the Lives of African-American and Other Minority Women in the United States
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Program
Keynote
Lori Heise
Executive Director, Structural Driver of HIV Research Consortium
Senior Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Chair
Chair
Kathleen M. MacQueen
Senior Scientist, Behavioral & Social Sciences
FHI 360
Moderator
Suzanne Leclerc-Mandala
Senior Advisor, Office of HIV/AIDS, Global Health Bureau
USAID
Introductory remarks
Timothy D. Mastro
Vice President, Health and Development Sciences
FHI 360
Opening and closing remarks
Kathleen M. MacQueen
PhD, Forum Chair
Senior Scientist, Behavioral & Social Sciences
FHI 360
Speakers
Elizabeth Tolley
Senior Scientist, Behavioral & Social Sciences
FHI 360
Nduku Kilonzo
Executive Director
Liverpool VCT, Care and Treatment, Kenya
Dazon Dixon Diallo
Founder, President
Sisterlove, Inc., Atlanta, GA