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AIDS 2006 - Toronto
Microbicides were the pulse of AIDS 2006 - the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada - 13-18 August 2006. Below, you can find a summary of media coverage, links for more information, a few key presentations, and guides to microbicides related events.
Media coverage coming out of the 16th International AIDS Conference
Official conference website, www.AIDS2006.org
Updates and webcasts: visit www.kaisernetwork.org/aids2006
View the webcast of the August 14th plenary "Taking Stalk: Current Changes in the Global Response" and hear Louise Binder's powerful speech on the need for microbicides, "From programme to policies - Now: Positive changes for women and girls"
Key presentations related to microbicides:
- Session title: Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials: Tenofovir and Beyond. Presentation: Making the ethical feasible: assuring future access to care to those who sero-convert in microbicide trials, by Anna Forbes, United States powerpoint
- Session title: HIV Prevention: evolution and change in programme development. Presentation: New technology in HIV prevention – microbicide development to date
Lori Heise, GCM powerpoint
- Plenary Session on Tuesday. Presentation: Microbicides and other prevention technologies, by Gita Ramjee, HIV Prevention Research Unit, Durban, South Africa pdf
- New Prevention Technologies at the Global Village main stage. Presentation: Microbicides: Who, what, where, when and how, by Rebekah Webb, GCM powerpoint
Guides of activities related to women, HIV, and microbicides:
- Microbicides roadmap, click here. Roadmap
- New Prevention Technologies roadmap, click here.
- Gender and Women-related activities, visit the Athena Coalition website and check out the Global Coalition commissioned guide.
