Webinars
The HIV Care Cascade in the U.S.
As every year, AIDSVu presents a webinar during the NLAAD campaign. Since this year NLAAD focuses on the importance of HIV treatment, AIDSVu will present statistics and information on the HIV Care Cascade in the U.S.
Presenter:
Patrick Sullivan, DVM, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health; Principal Scientist, AIDSVu
Facilitated Live on: October 21, 2024
Integrating Aging and HIV Care
This webinar is focused on learning the needs of the older people living with HIV, based on a research made by the Latino Commission on AIDS Research department in Texas. We will be able to learn about epidemiological trends, and the process of aging with HIV.
Presenter:
Evelio Salinas Escamilla, Senior Research Associate, Latino Commission on AIDS
Facilitated Live on: October 8, 2024
Advances on HIV Treatment
In over 40 years of HIV epidemic science has progressed and discovered many medications to treat HIV, not yet a cure but the disease is now controllable and treatable. With time treatment has evolved from a “cocktail” of medication at the beginning to one injection every 6 months. Let’s learn what treatment options are currently available, when to start treatment, why it is important to adhere to the treatment, benefits of receiving treatment, as well as the difficulties our community confronts to get access to treatment.
Presenter:
Dr. Annelys Roque Gardner, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Emory University
Facilitated Live on: October 7, 2024
New HIV Diagnoses in Texas
In recent years, the HIV epidemic has been concentrated in the South, with more than 50% of the cases located there. The increasing number of new HIV cases in the South makes it the most affected area in the country. Starting with Texas, the Latino Commission on AIDS, through its research and innovation unit, has been assessing the socioeconomic and health needs of the region, particularly in Hispanic communities at risk of HIV or living with HIV. In this webinar, Daniel Castellanos will discuss the epidemiology of HIV in Texas.
Presenter:
Daniel Castellanos, DrPH, Vice President of Research and Innovation, Latino Commission on AIDS
Facilitated Live on: October 3, 2024
Highlights of the International HIV/AIDS Conference – Munich 2024
In July of this year, the 25th International HIV Conference took place in Munich, Germany with the theme “Put people first.” The event showcased community-led innovation alongside scientific breakthroughs. Luis Nava, the presenter of this webinar attended the conference and will share the highlights of the sessions he attended.
Presenter:
Luis Nava, Director of Aging Initiatives, Latino Commission on AIDS
Facilitated Live on: September 30, 2024
Collaborative, community-based approaches to increasing PrEP access for Latinx sexual minority men
In this webinar, you will learn how a group of clinicians, researchers and community members joined forces to create a low-barrier, telemedicine-based PrEP service tailored to the Latinx LGBTQ community. This presentation features perspectives from peers and care providers on how to reduce barriers to PrEP and lessons learned.
Presenters:
Ruben Rodriguez, Navigation Coordinator, Latino Commission on AIDS; Elí Andrade, Study Coordinator, Montefiore Medical Center; Carolina Miranda, MD, Physician, Montefiore Medical Center; Jonathan Ross, MD, Physician, Montefiore Medical Center
Facilitated Live on: October 12, 2023
PrEP Use among the Hispanic/Latinx Community
The Latino Commission on AIDSVu join efforts again to bring you crucial data and information about PrEP use among the Hispanic Community by areas of the country. From this data, federal, state and local agencies can now identify where to address issues, create programs and work towards the improvement of health disparities.
Presenter:
Patrick Sullivan, DVM, PhD,Professor of Epidemiology at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and the Principal Scientist for AIDSVu
Facilitated Live on: October 10, 2023
HIV Prevention Strategies for National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day
Celebrate NLAAD with by learning ways to promote HIV prevention and treatment with two ambassadors from the “Let’s Stop HIV Together” campaign.
Presenters:
Ronaldo Andrés Vázquez Maldonado, Let’s Stop HIV Together Community Ambassador and Dr. Joseph Cherabie, Let’s Stop HIV Together Clinical Ambassador
Facilitated Live on: October 4, 2023
HIV and Aging
This online seminar provides information about what Aging with HIV looks like, what common lifestyle diseases happen with aging and how to prevent them. Also, it discusses on lifestyle changes that can positively impact one’s health and the recommended screening milestones for common lifestyle diseases associated with aging.
Presenter:
Mable Taplin, RN, MSN
Patient Advocate; Non-Profit Executive; Author; Keynote Speaker at TheraTechnologies
Facilitated Live on: October 2, 2023
Achieving a National PrEP Program in the U.S.
Over the past two years, PrEP4All and the National PrEP Program Working Group, a broad coalition of HIV prevention advocates and community members impacted by the HIV epidemic, have advanced important policy advocacy for the funding and implementation of a National PrEP Program for un- and under-insured individuals. This webinar covers the current state of that advocacy, including a proposal from the Biden administration for a $9.8B 10-year investment in such a program, and identifies key implementation recommendations.
Presenter:
Jeremiah Johnson, MPH
Executive Director, PrEP4All
Facilitated Live on: September 26, 2023
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..
Presenters:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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