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HIV Prevention England Conference 2024 Programme and Livestream

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HIv prevention england conference 2024. Prioritising equity and impact

This Friday, 6 September 2024 health professionals, community experts and researchers in HIV prevention and sexual health will gather for the sixth HIV Prevention England Conference.

Programme

The conference sessions include

  • Insights into PrEP awareness and needs
  • Impactful approaches to address HIV stigma
  • Sexual health knowledge and key populations
  • Opt out testing for HIV in emergency departments
  • Achieving equitable access to PrEP
  • Experiences of navigating health systems for Black African and Caribbean communities
  • Addressing inequalities and unmet need in the HIV response
  • Making an impact in re-engagement  and retention in care
  • Developing better insights to achieve equity for underserved communities
  • Working in partnership for impact
  • What’s needed from a new HIV Action Plan for England?
  • Getting to zero by 2030. How can we make it a reality?

Get the full programme here

Livestream

Not able to attend the HIV Prevention England Conference 2024 in-person? You can stream selected sessions via YouTube on Friday 6 September, including our opening and closing plenary sessions. Go to YouTube now, and click the ‘Remind me’ so you don’t miss it.

Opening plenary – 9.30am

Opening remarks around equity and impact in HIV prevention, including from:

  • Andrew Gwynne MP (Minister for Public Health and Prevention)
  • Professor Kevin Fenton (Chief Advisor on HIV to the Department of Health and Social Care)
  • Memory Sachikonye (Co-ordinator of UK-CAB)
  • Richard Angell (Chief Executive, Terrence Higgins Trust)

Closing plenary – 3.50pm

A panel discussion on the vital question of ‘Getting to zero by 2030. How do we make it a reality?’, with:

  • Christina Ganotakis (One Voice Network)
  • Prof Claudia Estcourt (BASHH)
  • James Woolgar (Chair of HIV & Sexual Health Commissioners Group)
  • Olivia De Achaval (Department of Health and Social Care)
  • Rachel Hill-Tout (BBV Clinical Lead for NHS England)
  • Richard Angell (Chief Executive of Terrence Higgins Trust)
  • Sinead Ward (UK General Manager of ViiV)

It promises to be a really exciting day so don’t miss out.

 

HIV Prevention England Conference 2024 Registration

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We’re delighted to announce that registration for the HIV Prevention England Conference 2024 is now open.

The conference theme, ‘Prioritising Equity and Impact’, will draw attention to the need for a significant focus on equity to ensure no one is left behind and the need to prioritise impactful interventions to achieve the 2030 goal for zero new transmissions.

Register your place today.

Topics covered will include:

  • Progress towards achieving the 2030 goal of no new HIV transmissions
  • Achieving equitable access to PrEP
  • HIV and STI testing in different settings
  • Population movement and HIV prevention and care
  • HIV prevention and care services for women
  • Achieving retention in care and re-engagement with care
  • Improving the quality of life for people living with HIV
  • HIV and STI prevention research and implementation
  • Partnerships and coproduction approaches
  • The role of community and activism in achieving the 2030 goal of no new transmissions
  • Tackling HIV-related stigma

The conference will take place on Friday 6 September 2024 at etc.venues, County Hall, London. It’s free to attend for all those working in sexual health and HIV prevention.

Conference information

When: Friday 6 September 2024
Where: etc.venues, County Hall, London

Register your place today

Please note that this is a free event, restrictions on the number of registrants per organisation may apply.

National HPE Conference 2017

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HPE Conference 2017 - Thursday 18 May 2017

The National HIV Prevention England Conference will be held on Thursday 18 May 2017 in central London.

It will bring together partners in HIV prevention including sexual health commissioners, health promoters, sexual health and HIV service providers, faith leaders working in England and other key figures and influencers in the field of HIV. The conference has the aim of facilitating the dissemination and development of best practice, alongside disseminating learning from the PHE Innovation Fund and other projects.

Download the programme [PDF]

Themes

  • Innovation in HIV prevention
  • Innovation in HIV testing
  • Community engagement/mobilisation and face-to-face interventions
  • Partnership working

Outcomes

  • Engagement with and cooperation across the HIV prevention sector
  • Increased understanding of the latest developments and current issues in HIV testing and prevention in England
  • Delegates can take away at least one new idea for local implementation

Response to past HPE conference (2014)

87 per cent of previous delegates agreed that they would ‘recommend the HPE conference to other people concerned with HIV prevention with at risk populations’.

Three quarters (74 per cent) of delegates agreed they had ‘increased their understanding of the latest developments and current issues in HIV prevention in England’, and 64 per cent agreed they had been ‘inspired to try at least one new idea in their local work practice’.

Register for the event