Open AccessHIV Prevention in a Time of COVID-19: A Report from the HIVR4P // Virtual Conference 2021
Author(s) -
Fatima Laher,
Simone I. Richardson,
Smith Pk,
Patrick S. Sullivan,
Andrea G. Abrahams,
Osaretin E. Asowata,
Patrick Bitangumutwenzi,
Smritee Dabee,
Annabell Dollah,
Natalia Fernández,
Robert Langat,
Devi Leena Bose,
Udom Likhitwonnawut,
Ranajoy Mullick,
Rachel S. Resop,
Jyoti Sutar,
Ashaki Nzingha Thompson-Hall,
Michael W Traeger,
Marina Tuyishime,
Jacque Wambui,
LindaGail Bekker,
Pontiano Kaleebu,
Sheena McCormack,
David H. O’Connor,
Mitchell Warren,
Tamara Torri,
Bargavi Thyagarajan
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
aids research and human retroviruses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.993
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1931-8405
pISSN - 0889-2229
DOI - 10.1089/aid.2021.0138
Subject(s) - microbicides for sexually transmitted diseases , pandemic , medicine , psychological intervention , harm , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , covid-19 , webcast , family medicine , psychology , disease , nursing , world wide web , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty) , computer science , population , health services , pathology , social psychology
The HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P) conference catalyzes knowledge sharing on biomedical HIV prevention interventions such as HIV vaccines, antibody infusions, pre-exposure prophylaxis, and microbicides in totality-from the molecular details and delivery formulations to the behavioral, social, and structural underpinnings. HIVR4P // Virtual was held over the course of 2 weeks on January 27-28 and February 3-4, 2021 as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continued to inflict unprecedented harm globally. The HIVR4P community came together with 1,802 researchers, care providers, policymakers, implementers, and advocates from 92 countries whose expertise spanned the breadth of the HIV prevention pipeline from preclinical to implementation. The program included 113 oral and 266 poster presentations. This article presents a brief summary of the conference highlights. Complete abstracts, webcasts, and daily rapporteur summaries may be found on the conference website (https://www.hivr4p.org/).