Brian Kanyemba from the DTHF Men’s Division attended the Co-infections, Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections conference in Seattle February 2015. His interest in the outcomes of the conference was to understand how new bio-medical HIV treatment and prevention interventions might be transferred from the science of clinical trials to the end user in the broader community.
During the conference he hosted two panel discussions. FACTS 001 study: What does this Trial mean to South African women? featuring FACTS core protocol chair Professor Helen Rees, founder and Executive Director of the Reproductive Health and HIV Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmy7a5VSZN4&feature=youtu.be
The second discussion dealt with HIV Prevention in Africa the next step, Perspectives of HIV prevention and treatment advocates featuring Associate Professor Morenike Ukpong from Obefemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brBp6HAPKtg
