AIDS 2020: UCSF Experts to Speak, Present at International Conference

Dozens of UC San Francisco infectious disease experts will present at the bi-annual International AIDS Conference, known this year as AIDS 2020, being hosted virtually in San Francisco and Oakland, July 6-10, 2020, with a pre-conference July 1-3.

UCSF’s Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, UCSF professor of medicine in the Division of HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine, and Medical Director of Ward 86 at UCSF partner hospital Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG), is the scientific co-chair. Her co-chair for the meeting is Cynthia Carey-Grant, an advocate for women, communities of color and justice in Oakland.

Originally planned to be held in San Francisco and Oakland, the conference is being run entirely online event due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. On July 10 and 11, there also will be a special COVID-19 program.

AIDS 2020 will feature many of the biggest names nationally, including National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci, MD, and White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Ambassador Deborah Birx.

All online demand content will be available July 4 for those registered for the conference, with the exception of research being presented at an official press conference, live Global Village, and supplementary Q&A sessions. All conference content led by Bay Area scientists and HIV leaders, including those live sessions, can be found here, in addition to posters presented by UCSF investigators.

Here is the line-up of UCSF investigator oral abstract and abstract presentations, bridging sessions, satellite sessions, and plenary talks.

The 6th Workshop on Children and Adolescents HIV-Exposed and Uninfected 
Theodore Ruel

Transgender in Latin America 2020 - Session 1
Salud Anal

Pathways to an HIV Cure: Tools for Community and Clinicians | Opening & Advancing the HIV Cure Field, and Debunking Myths and Misconceptions
Steven Deeks, Lillian Cohn

Target Product Profiles for an HIV Cure and Closing Session
Steven Deeks

Community and Academic Partnerships to Advance Evidence-Based Policymaking: Lessons Learned from the California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Centers
Wayne T. Steward, Emily A. Arnold

PrEP for Transgender Communities: Lessons from 3 demonstration projects in California
Albert Liu, Jayne Gagliano, Sophia Zamudio-Haas, Arianna Salinas, Luz Venegas, Luis Gutierrez-Mock

Hands Across the Bay: Collaborations in HIV Science
Marguerita Lightfoot, Paul Volberding, Hyman Scott

HIV, COVID-19 and Housing Instability in High-Income Cities
Elise D. Riley, Asa Clemenzi-Allen

Launch of a JIAS Supplement: Integrating services for HIV and related comorbidities: modelling to inform policy and practice
David Boettiger

Psychometric Properties of Measures of Substance Use: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Reliability, Validity and Diagnostic Test Accuracy
Glenn-Milo Santos

Men & HIV: Insights from sub-Saharan Africa
Sue Napierala

End Hep C SF: Collective impact efforts to eliminate HIV and Hepatitis C in my community
Annie Luetkemeyer

Celebrating the resilience and wisdom of Long-Term Survivors (LTS) and elders with HIV: A community-building networking zone for LTS, elders and allies
Meredith Greene

Hard Bop Collective with Peter Hunt
Peter Hunt

Ward 86: The HIV/AIDS Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Mary-Lawrence Hicks, Jon Oskarsson, Helen Lin, Elizabeth Lynch, Joseph Watabe, John Szumowski, Monica Gandhi

Community and Academic Partnerships to Advance Evidence-Based Policymaking: Lessons Learned from the California HIV Policy Research Centers
Wayne Steward, Kimberly A. Koester

Apply reproductive justice & trauma-informed care principles to HIV prevention
Lealah Pollack

Investing in the next generation of diverse HIV prevention researchers: A call for impactful mentored research experiences
Jonathan Fuchs, John Sauceda, Phillip Coffin

Opening Session 2
Monica Gandhi

Vulva puppets, home mapping and teapots: how to enhance biomedical research and understand the context of HIV prevention through innovative and interactive qualitative methods
Ariane van der Straten, Elizabeth Montgomery

Promoting Reductions in Intersectional StigMa (PRISM): A Critical Lens to Advance HIV Prevention and Care Research
Sheri Lippman, Jae Sevelius

Kill or be killed: HIV vs. host immune responses
Ashley George, Gladstone

PrEP for Transgender Communities: Lessons from 3 demonstration projects in California
Erin C. Wilson, Christina Sanz Rodriguez, Robert Grant, Madeline Deutsch, Jae Sevelius, Luis Gutierrez-Mock, Arianna Salinas, Luz Venegas

Emerging success stories in PrEP in MSM and TGW in Asia
Glenn-Milo Santos

Mortality and tuberculosis: What are we doing to prevent them?
Diane Havlir

Untangling the web of sexual reproductive health and sex differences in prevention
Joelle Brown

From within: Effective strategies for community mobilization and demand creation
Emily Arnold

Gaps in our response: Who are we missing?
Albert Liu

Can we achieve UTT? What can UTT achieve?
James Peng 

Pleasure, prevention, or fear: Far reaching effects of online messaging and mHealth interventions
Hyman Scott

PrEP at Scale
Catherine Koss

Breaking the silence of stigma: Innovative approaches
Andres Maiorana, Erin C. Wilson

I Test, You Test, We All Test: Multiple Roads to the First 90
Sheri Lippman

Where did our voices go? HIV advocacy in a noisy landscape
Monica McLemore

Controlling HIV: lessons from controllers
Michael Peluso

Track D late-breaker abstracts
Sarah Roberts, RTI

TB
Annie Luetkemeyer

PrEP for Transgender Communities: Lessons from 3 demonstration projects in California
Erin C. Wilson, Christina Sanz Rodriguez

Differentiated service delivery: One size does not fit all
Carol Dawson-Rose

HIV & Society: Community and structural approaches for HIV prevention, treatment and care
Tammy Nicastro

It’s complicated: Co-infections and co-morbidities
Joel Palefsky

Synced up: STIs and HIV
Stephanie Cohen

One Year after ECHO: Integration in the Time of COVID
Nyaradzo Mgodi, UZ-UCSF

How data is leading innovation: Evidence informed programmes
Wanjiru Waruiru

ARV, cure and testing strategies
Steven Deeks

Integrated healthcare for co-infections and conditions
Diane Havlir

Men and HIV: Insights from sub-Saharan Africa
Sue Napierala, RTI

HPTN Scholars Program: The Next Generation of Emerging Leaders of Color in the HIV Prevention Landscape
Glenn-Milo Santos

The whole person: Addressing all aspects of health of people living with HIV
Marguerita Lightfoot

Live Session: Hands Across the Bay: Collaborations in HIV Science
Marguerita Lightfoot, Hyman Scott, Paul Volberding

COVID Track D: Public health responses including physical distancing and community level efforts, programmes, policies, lifting restrictions, modeling
Elizabeth Imbert

The defense shall not rest: Rights, rhetoric and reality
Neil Sircar 

Across the cascade: Research methods in implementation science
Aaloke Mody, Madellena Conte

COVID Track C: Epidemiology, transmission dynamics, prevention, vaccines
Gabriel Chamie

Older and wiser: Ageing with HIV
Meredith Greene

Panoramic view of drug use and HIV
Danielle Veloso

It’s raining men: How to effectively engage men into care
Andrew Kerkhoff

Innovation in initiation, treatment and care: Differentiated Service Delivery
Elizabeth Imbert

Men and HIV: Insights from sub-Saharan Africa
Sue Napierala, RTI

Community and Academic Partnerships to Advance Evidence-Based Policymaking: Lessons Learned from the California HIV Policy Research Centers
Wayne Steward, Kimberly Koester

Implementing people-centered PrEP
Albert Liu

What’s Hot in HIV Treatment: Expert Discussion
Monica Gandhi

Why HIV and Mental Health Care Need to Work Together in Sub-Saharan Africa: Collaborative Scale-Up to Address Evolving Epidemics
Susan Meffert, Eric Goosby

Live Session: HIV, COVID-19 and Housing Instability in High-Income Cities
Elise Riley, Elizabeth Imbert, Matthew Hickey, Darpun Sachdev

Adolescents and young people
Theodore Ruel

Identity, expression and orientation: Gender-transformative approaches within the HIV response
Glenda Baguso

Prime Session 3: Prevention
Susan Buchbinder

New Formulations for HIV Rx and Preventions
Nyaradzo Mgodi, Christine Dehlendorf, Dominika Seidman 

How did they do it? What successful communities can teach all of us about making dramatic progress against HIV epidemics and what this means in the age of COVID
Diane Havlir

Impact of COVID-19 in the health sector
Sheri Weiser