OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE – DAY 2 MONDAY 21 JULY 2014
July 21, Melbourne, Australia – AIDS 2014, the 20th International AIDS Conference, officially began last night (Sunday 20 July) in Melbourne, Australia, with moving tributes to the six delegates who lost their lives aboard flight MH17.
Representatives of the organisations that lost colleagues – the World Health Organisation, AIDS Fonds, Stop AIDS Now, The Female Health Company, and the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development – joined eleven former, present and future presidents of the International AIDS Society (IAS) and members of the Dutch HIV community on the main stage in front of more than 5,000 delegates from around the world for a moment of remembrance.
Blog AIDS 2014, 21 July 2014
The Creative and Novel Ideas in HIV Research (CNIHR) Programme is presented by the International AIDS Society (IAS) in collaboration with the Centers for AIDS Research Program (CFAR) and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The programme aims to encourage innovation in the field of HIV research by providing one to two years of funding to early-stage scientists who do not have prior work experience with HIV. The CNIHR Programme allows the grantees the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research on HIV and AIDS.
In conjunction with the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), CNIHR grants totaling US$5 million were awarded to twelve scientists, including Dr Gretchen Neigh for her proposed work, "Effects of adolescent stress and HIV on the stress response and neuroinflammation." As anticipation grows for the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne, Australia, this summer, the IAS has reached out to Dr Neigh to hear her opinions on how the award has shaped her career thus far.
Blog AIDS 2014, 21 July 2014
MELBOURNE, Australia—Using maps to understand spatial patterns in disease epidemics is nothing new. Nineteenth century epidemiologist John Snow’s cholera map was a game-changer, allowing him to trace cholera’s devastating path at the most granular, household level. Within the HIV field, multi-colored push pins and paper maps were being used just a few years ago to identify the location of existing health facilities in order to inform where facilities were still needed in order to increase coverage and inform strategic planning.
But gone are the days when maps existed in folded accordion rectangles, purchased from a book store or buried within the pages of an atlas. Today, anyone with a smart device—a phone, a tablet, a computer—can view a street-level map of virtually any location on earth.
Blog AIDS 2014, 20 July 2014
After two years of planning and preparation, the International AIDS Conference is around the corner. The International Community of Women living with HIV [ICW] has several dynamic women presenting at; plenary sessions, symposia, workshops and the cultural program. The Women's Networking Zone [WNZ], a space open to the public, will have an exciting program of presentations by speakers, from every corner of the globe, addressing access to treatments and services, sexual and reproductive rights, discrimination and violence, and criminalization and justice.
Young women living with HIV will address both the opening and closing plenaries, with Ayu Oktariani from Indonesia, backed by thirty people from the Asia-Pacific region in traditional dress, welcoming delegates on behalf of the community, and Violent Banda from Malawi, a young woman born with HIV, taking the banner for the community onto the next conference in Durban in 2016.
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