HIV prevention

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.

Gay Men’s Sex Survey results

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HPE funded Sigma Research, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, to conduct the 17th Gay Men’s Sex Survey (GMSS). The survey was community-recruited and is concerned with HIV and STI infections, sex between men, HIV prevention needs and service uptake. Over 15,000 men completed the survey and the findings have now been published.

The results [PDF] shows that whilst more gay and bisexual men than ever before are getting tested for HIV, a quarter have never had an HIV test, and a third are unsure about their HIV status.

Men’s ‘sexual happiness’ and it’s relationship with HIV infection is an issue which the report examines, and the findings indicate that men living with diagnosed HIV are no more, or less, likely to be unhappy with their sex life than men who have not tested HIV positive

As well as exploring HIV prevention opportunities, capabilities and motivations using a range of indicators about unmet prevention need, the report also looks at a number of risk and precaution behaviours related to sex and drugs, and examines data about the performance of HIV prevention interventions.