Improving Access to Tuberculosis Care and HIV Prevention in South Africa

Dear Colleagues – CHIPTS is pleased to invite you to an in-person lecture presented by Dr. Andrew Medina-Marino entitled “Improving Access to Tuberculosis Care and HIV Prevention in South Africa” on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PT at the A2-342 MDCC (Moss Auditorium). Find more information below and attached.

Dr. Medina-Marino will share recent findings from two on-going studies – The Community PrEP Study which leveraged community-based platforms to improve access and adherence to PrEP among adolescent girls and young women, and a formative study exploring men’s preferences for a gender responsive intervention to support their engagement and retention in care. The event objectives are to:

• Describe the acceptability and feasibility of leveraging community-based HIV testing platforms to provide same-day initiation services for oral PrEP to adolescent girls and young women
• Describe the limitations of adherence support interventions to improve adolescent girls and young women’s prevention effective use of daily oral PrEP
• Appreciate the gendered inequities associated with Tuberculosis
• Describe men’s needs and wants for an intervention to support their engagement and retention in TB care and treatment

Following the lecture, we invite you to a networking session with Dr. Andrew Medina-Marino from 1:00PM – 2:30PM PT! at the CHS Switzer Plaza. *A light lunch will be provided

RSVP Here or copy and paste URL: https://bit.ly/3UEbfyh

If you have any questions, please contact Enrique Sanchez at EESanchez@mednet.ucla.edu

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If you are unable to attend in-person, join the meeting via zoom using the link below:

https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpc-qhpj4iGNWMcDWSJ7ZblV0g__W75Fff