This global health seminar featured Dr. Dvora Joseph Davey who focused on research to address equitable delivery of HIV and STI interventions, focusing on a case study of oral and injectable PrEP, and STI management, in pregnant and lactating people, in South Africa.
Presentation by Lynn Nguyen and William Dyer that examines women living with HIV/AIDS (WLHA) and the additional and unique need to seek sexual and reproductive health services. WLHA’s maternal health journeys can be shaped by the cultural norms and resources that exist in their society. This study sought to understand if and how WLHA’s family planning, pregnancy, and motherhood experiences could be influenced by the patriarchal culture,
gender roles, and HIV stigma in Vietnam, specifically.
Oral Presentation at the CHIPTS HIV Next Generation Conference featuring Steven Shoptaw, Thomas J. Coates, Pamina Gorbach, and Dvora Joseph Davey held on January 2022. The presentation focused on alcohol use and HIV describing the interrelated public health issues associated with adverse health outcomes for the mother and fetus. The presentation examined associations between reported alcohol use and HIV risk behaviors among pregnant women in Cape Town, SA
Flyer for the upcoming grand rounds session on January 14, 2022, from 11am- 12pm PT. The grand rounds share the latest research findings on HIV prevention, care, and treatment, and highlight important developments in HIV-related research. Join this session to learn about environmental justice within women reproductive health.
Oral presentation by Alicia. D. Bonaparte, Pitzer College at the Addressing Medical Mistrust in Black Communities: Implications for HIV and Other Conditions, Los Angeles meeting on November 19, 2019 that discusses the medicalization of birth and pathologization of pregnancy that led to the removal of autonomy and legitimacy of grandmother midwives and led to a legacy of scientific racism that persists against Black people.
This infographic, entitled Undetectable=Untransmittable, explains that U=U means that people with HIV who achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load—the amount of HIV in the blood—by taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) daily as prescribed cannot sexually transmit the virus to others.
Oral presentation by Lisa Bohmer at the Learning Session: HIV Exposed Children and Early Child Development on March 7, 2019 that discusses the 5 year strategy of The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation which is to identify, test, and deliver program approaches that have the potential to improve developmental outcomes of all children affected by HIV and AIDS in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. They are currently supporting efforts to field test approaches to improve care giving and child development outcomes as part of health systems and within local communities, with focus on areas with high HIV prevalence.
This infographic, entitled Undetectable=Untransmittable, explains that U=U means that people with HIV who achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load—the amount of HIV in the blood—by taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) daily as prescribed cannot sexually transmit the virus to others. Thus, treatment for HIV is a powerful arrow in the quiver of HIV prevention tools.
This infographic, entitled Undetectable=Untransmittable, explains that U=U means that people with HIV who achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load—the amount of HIV in the blood—by taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) daily as prescribed cannot sexually transmit the virus to others. Thus, treatment for HIV is a powerful arrow in the quiver of HIV prevention tools.