BE HEARD! - Presentations Now Available from AIDS 2010 Event

Condoms Aren’t Enough! 
Will Pills and Lubes Define the Future Of Sex? 
Click 'n Learn right here!

More than 100 of the world's top experts on human rights and HIV among sexual minorities led presentations and workshops in Vienna on July 17 at BE HEARD, an all-day conference event that addressed soaring global rates of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM). The event preceded the launch of AIDS 2010, the XVIII International AIDS Conference (IAC) and had nearly 600 participants.

IRMA was an event sponsor and Steering Committee members Ian McGowan, Jorge Sanchez, Roger Tatoud and Jim Pickett led a 2-hour session with other top researchers including Drs.Gaudensia  Mutua, Jorge Saavedra and Patrick Wilson called "Condoms Aren’t Enough! Will Pills and Lubes Define the Future Of Sex? An Overview of New HIV Prevention Tools in Development."

Below are 5 of the presentations - please give each of them a click and learn. The first - directly below - begins with Dr. Mutua's talk - "Basic Concepts about AIDS Vaccine Research."

 

Hosted by the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF), BE HEARD focused on challenges and solutions to achieving universal access to HIV-related prevention, care, treatment, and support services for sexual minority communities worldwide.

Click 'n Learn - Modelling the impact of a rectal microbicide

Dr. Rowena Johnston of amfAR and Dr. Anna Foss (pictured) of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine presented "Modelling the impact of a rectal microbicide used by men who have sex with men in Lima, Peru and Bangalore, India" for the last IRMA Global Teleconference of the year, held earlier today.

Foss's excellent slides are available on the IRMA website, in the Teleconference section.

You can also click the first slide below to download the entire set.

IRMA Resources - Click 'n Learn

The online home of IRMA - International Rectal Microbicide Advocates - is an important resource for everyone interested in the research and development of safe, effective, and acceptable rectal microbicides. Whether you are an advocate, a scientist, an interested community member, a funder or a policy maker - you will find all kinds of useful information on our site.

Below, please check out three sections we would like to highlight today - all of which can be found under the tab Resources - including Teleconferences, Community Presentations and IRMA Materials. We hope you will utilize everything our website has to offer.


Click Community Presentations for access to a host of rectal microbicide and new prevention technology presentations given in the Community - at conferences and workshops all over the world, by advocates and scientists.


Click above for access to all Teleconference presentations, dating back to 2006. IRMA regularly conducts global teleconferences to allow members to learn about the latest in research and advocacy efforts on behalf of rectal microbicides - all without ever leaving their chair. Click the Teleconference section of the site to not only look at past presentations and related materials and notes, but also to find information about the next scheduled call.


Click above - IRMA Materials - for access to materials created and published by IRMA, including our latest report - Less Silence, More Science - Advocacy to Make Rectal Microbicides a Reality - in English and in Spanish. In addition, you will find a basic rectal microbicide fact sheet here, and a basic rectal microbicide PowerPoint presentation.

Please feel free to take advantage of these resources to inform yourself and others about rectal microbicides. Men and women around the world who engage in anal intercourse need more options - beyond condoms - to protect themselves against HIV. Please use these tools to help push the science forward!

Click 'n Learn - "Making Anal Sex Safer for MSM in the Developing World"

Today IRMA presented our workshop - Making Anal Sex Safer for MSM in the Developing World.

It was featured at "The Invisible Men: Gay Men and Other MSM in the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic" - the pre-conference for MSM prior to the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, organized by the Global Forum for MSM and HIV.


For your ease and convenience, the slides are available in PDF format on the IRMA website here, under Community Presentations.


IRMA presenters also unveiled the brand new Spanish-language version of our "Less Silence, More Science" report. Titled "Menos Silencio, Más Ciencia" the new translated document may be found on the IRMA website here.


Read the news release here.


You can view other "Click 'n Learn" presentations on the blog here.

Click 'n Learn - New Resources for IRMA Advocates!

IRMA is delighted to offer our rectal microbicide advocates two new resources!

Now online - a fresh new PowerPoint presentation on the basics of rectal microbicides as well as a newly updated rectal microbicide fact sheet - in the "IRMA Materials" section of the website.

Click 'n learn with this presentation - go to the IRMA site and download the basic rectal microbicide PowerPoint presentation (full images - LARGE file) so you can share with others. It has been designed generically so you may personalize it and adapt as needed. Please take advantage of this template - and let us know when and where you do presentations! Our membership and blog readers love to hear what is going on around the world in terms of rectal microbicide advocacy. Click here for the same presentation with REDUCED IMAGES - it is a much smaller file and much easier to download.

And click here for the newly updated fact sheet, also on the IRMA site.

Of course, if you have questions, please contact us!