Webinars
Webinar:
U=USTED: Machismo Culture and HIV
This webinar begins with a personal story about how cultural upbringing and inherited world views influenced one person’s relationship with HIV, and how they are now using their voice and story to change perspectives within their culture. Next, participants are updated on the status of U=U in the U.S. and have an opportunity to provide their expertise and feedback to help shape the future of U=U in the U.S. through an interactive activity..
Presenter:
Moncies Franco, U=U Ambassador, Prevention Access Campaign; Mariah Wilberg, Senior Director of U.S. Strategy & Ending the Epidemic, Prevention Access Campaign
Facilitated Live on: October 20, 2022
Webinar:
HIV Vaccine Research Updates and Latinx Engagement
The presentation focuses on HIV vaccine, how they are designed, how vaccine research trials are conducted and the importance of engaging Latinx.
Presenter:
Jorge Benitez, Community Engagement Coordinator, Columbia Research Unit
Facilitated Live on: October 14, 2022
Webinar:
Monkeypox Infection, How it can affect PLWH
Monkeypox virus is an orthopoxvirus that causes a disease with symptoms similar, but less severe, to smallpox. While smallpox was eradicated in 1980, monkeypox continues to occur in countries of central and west Africa. There is a current outbreak of this disease around the globe affecting mostly member of the LGBTQ community. On this webinar, we can learn about this disease, and how it can affect people living with HIV.
Presenter:
Leandro Mena, MD, University of MississippiMedical Center
Facilitated Live on: October 12, 2022
Webinar:
Trends in PrEP inequity by race and census region, United States, 2012- 2021
AIDSVu released the PrEP use data and maps, we encourage you to tune in for this presentation and share these new data with your networks. AIDSVu will discuss the importance of these data. We encourage you to engage with our social and reshare on your own pages to amplify this.
Presenter:
Patrick Sullivan, Community AIDSVu’s Principal Scientist
Facilitated Live on: October 13, 2022
Webinar:
After 40 years of HIV Epidemic in the USA, U=U and its perspective
In early 2016, a life-changing fact was turned into a campaign that communicate that a person living with HIV who has an undetectable viral load cannot transmit HIV to sexual partners. In other words, Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U). 40 years after the start of the HIV epidemic, U=U is revolutionizing what it means to live and love with HIV. In this webinar, you’ll hear insights from a U=U Ambassador and PAC staff member about how U=U is being used to End the Epidemic and engage the Latinx community in new and innovative ways.
Presenters:
Maria Mejia, Well Project Ambassador
Davina (Dee) Conner, Creative Engagement Outreach Specialist, Prevention Access Campaign
Facilitated Live on: October 28, 2021
Webinar :
40 Years of HIV Epidemic in the USA
Learn about the 40 years of HIV Epidemic in the US. From the uncertain dark beginnings of the epidemic when an entire generation of Americans died due to HIV related illness, through the progress of medicine and science getting us to today when we can say we have the tools to end this epidemic. Also, you will hear about the plan to end the HIV epidemic in America by 2030.
Presenter:
Harold Phillips, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Arianna Lint, Executive Director, Arianna’s Center
Facilitated Live on: November 16, 2021
Webinar #4:
Undetectable = Untransmittable: The Message and the Movement
In early 2016, people living with HIV organized with allies and researchers to communicate a life-changing but widely unknown and radical fact: a person living with HIV who has an undetectable viral load cannot transmit HIV to sexual partners. In other words, Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U). In this webinar, you’ll hear the insights from two U=U Ambassadors and gain tools and strategies to communicate this life-changing, stigma-busting, adherence-promoting message in meaningful and culturally competent ways.
Presenters:
Davina (Dee) Conner, U.S. Creative Engagements and Outreach Specialist, Prevention Access Campaign
Arianna Lint, Executive Director, Arianna’s Center
Facilitated Live on: October 22, 2020
Webinar #3:
Advancing the “Ending the HIV Epidemic” Initiative during COVID-19
Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America (EHE) is a bold plan that aims to end the HIV epidemic in the United States by 2030. EHE is the operational plan developed by agencies across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to pursue that goal.
Presenter:
Harold Phillips, MRP – Chief Operating Officer, Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative @U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Assistant Secretary of Health, Office of Infectious Disease Policy
Facilitated Live on: October 14, 2020
Webinar #2:
Social Determinants of Health and HIV in Latinx and Communities of Color
This webinar will address the intersection of the social determinants of health and their impact on HIV among the Latinx community as well as on communities of color in general – and the disparate impact on health equity and long-term health outcomes among medically underserved populations
Presenter:
Gregorio Millett, MPH,
amfAR – The foundation For AIDS Research
Facilitated Live on: October 6, 2020
Webinar #1:
Informed and Empowered: HIV Self-Testing during COVID-19
This webinar will address the intersection of the social determinants of health and their impact on HIV among the Latinx community as well as on communities of color in general – and the disparate impact on health equity and long-term health outcomes among medically underserved populations
Presenter:
Kayla Coleman, Orasure Technologies
Facilitated Live on: September 28, 2020
Webinar #5:
Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America
In the State of the Union Address on February 5, 2019, President Donald J. Trump announced his Administration’s goal to end the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years. To achieve this goal and address the ongoing public health crisis of HIV, the proposed Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America will leverage the powerful data and tools now available to reduce new HIV infections in the United States by 75 percent in five years and by 90 percent by 2030.
Presenter:
Harold Phillips, MRP – Chief Operating Officer, Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative @U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Assistant Secretary of Health, Office of Infectious Disease Policy
Facilitated Live on: October 17, 2019
Webinar #4:
The Invisible Crisis: HIV/AIDS Among Hispanic/Latino in the United States
A largely overlooked HIV crisis among Latinx in the U.S. is emerging against the backdrop of reinforced national efforts to end the U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030. Although there has been substantial overall progress in the fight against HIV reflected in U.S. aggregate data, recent data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raise alarming concerns about widening, yet largely unrecognized, HIV/AIDS disparities among Latinx.
Presenter:
Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, NYU- CLAFH And Adolescent AIDS Program, Montefiore Medical Center.
Facilitated Live on: October 15, 2019
Webinar #3:
Profilaxis de Pre-exposición (PrEP) en Español
Una orientación para cuidadores de salud para el paciente HSH.
A presentation in Spanish for Healthcare Professionals on the prescription, maintenance and proper discontinuation of PrEP for MSM. Focus on MSM populations given the multiple social barriers that exist to access and care as well as the disparities in the prevalence, incidence, risk, etc. of HIV in the US, Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Presenters:
Luis Alzate-Duque, MD – MPH candidate, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School / Department of Medicine.
Nelson Sanchez, MD – Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Facilitated Live on: October 8, 2019
Webinar #2:
The U=U Message and Movement
U=U is a growing international movement to share the fact that people living with HIV on treatment with an undetectable viral load cannot transmit HIV to sexual partners. U=U is based on the principle that all people living with HIV have a right to accurate and meaningful information about their social, sexual, and reproductive health based on science not stigma.The U=U movement now consists of over 915 organizations in nearly 100 countries, all committed to sharing the news about U=U.
Presenter: Murray Penner, Executive Director, North America, Prevention Access Campaign (PAC) and the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) Campaign
Facilitated Live on: October 3, 2019
Webinar #1:
The Frontlines of HIV: Southern Stories, Communal Strategies
The Human in Human Immunodeficiency Virus is increasingly Southern, immigrant, gay and trans, and as full of possibility as ever. We will share results and recommendations from the first assessment of Latinx LGBTQ+ health across 7 Southern States by the Latino Commission on AIDS. These Southern Stories take seriously Latinx needs and nourish communal strategies for multi-racial healthcare at large.
Presenters: Jose Romero, Hands United, Latino Commission on AIDS; Joaquin Carcaño, Latinos in the South Program, Latino Commission on AIDS
Facilitated Live on: September 25, 2019