VIDEO: POZ on Location Captures 4 HOT Minutes on Rectal Microbicide Research

"The Bottom Line on Rectal Microbicide Research" was presented by IRMA's Jim Pickett at Gay Men's Health Crisis in NYC on January 23, 2013. POZ Magazine recorded the proceedings and produced this 4-minute highlight video, below. Check it out!

Click here to download Jim's presentation slides.

"The Rectal Revolution is Here" was screened as well. You can watch the 14-minute video describing rectal microbicide clinical trials on YouTube in English, Spanish, or Thai. It's an entertaining mix of live action and animation, and features a rectal microbicide trial participant who explains what the process was like, and why he chose to be in a prevention trial.

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  *Join IRMA's robust, highly-active. moderated, global listserv addressing rectal microbicide research and advocacy as well as other interesting new HIV prevention technologies by contacting us at rectalmicro@gmail.com. Joining our listserv automatically makes you a member of IRMA - a network of more than 1,100 advocates, scientists, policy makers and funders from all over the world.

*Please look for us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/InternationalRectalMicrobicideAdvocates, and you can follow us on Twitter: @rectalmicro.

*Also, please note that shared news items from other sources posted on this blog do not necessarily mean IRMA has taken any position on the article's content.

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Download Your Rectal Road Map to AIDS 2012

The AIDS 2012 Rectal Road Map put together by IRMA is a quick guide to rectal microbicide-related research and advocacy content + other selected sessions of interest at the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC.

It's a big conference - you don't want to get lost, or miss any of these really great sessions!

IRMA's Rectal Road Map

Click "View on slideshare" - bottom left of the document - to download a copy of the Road Map.

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*Join IRMA's robust, highly-active. moderated, global listserv addressing rectal microbicide research and advocacy as well as other interesting new HIV prevention technologies by contacting us at rectalmicro@gmail.com. Joining our listserv automatically makes you a member of IRMA - a network of more than 1,100 advocates, scientists, policy makers and funders from all over the world.

 *Please look for us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/InternationalRectalMicrobicideAdvocates, and you can follow us on Twitter: @rectalmicro.

*Also, please note that shared news items from other sources posted on this blog do not necessarily mean IRMA has taken any position on the article's content.

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.