Program—Tuesday, July 25

Tues 25th July – Plenary Talks

  • Trust in Science – Jeff Klausner, USA
  • Gender, health inequality and reproductive rights – Sarah Hawkes, UK
  • Putting Pleasure back into Sexual Health – Keosha Bond, USA & Sandrine Attalah, Lebanon

Tues 25th July – Spotlights and Symposia

  • Innovations in STI Care – Emma Harding-Esch, UK
    • How to maximise potential of point of care tests – Teodora Wi, WHO
    • Can automated care replace clinicians – Claudia Estcourt, Glasgow, UK
    • Social innovation and STI care – Joe Tucker, UNC & LSHTM
  • Tackling Stigma, Strengthening Communities – Adele Schwartz Benzaken, Brazil
    • Intersectional HIV-related stigma and discrimination – tbc
    • STIs – the risk of stigmatising stigma – Jorge Saavedra, AHF, Miami
    • Decriminalisation of same-sex relations and social attitudes- Rayner Tan, Singapore
  • Worldwide strategies against antimicrobial resistance – Magnus Unemo, Sweden
    • STI treatment options are running out – Magnus Unemo, Sweden
    • Molecular resistance testing and resistance-guided STI therapy: when and how to use – Catriona Bradshaw, Australia
    • Future treatments for STIs – Lindley Barbee, USA
    • Doxycycline PrEP and PEP – impact on microbiome and antimicrobial resistance – Fabian Kong, Australia
    • Optimising STI treatment using pharmacodynamics – Magnus Unemo, Sweden
  • Guidelines – Andy Winter, UK
    • Why are there differences in our guidelines? Kim Workowski, USA
    • Addressing trans and non-binary health in guidelines – Asa Radix, USA
    • Living guidelines – what does good look like – Jackie Sherrard, UK
  • Vaccines for STI prevention: development, acceptance and equity – Caroline Cameron, Canada & Anna Wald, USA
    • State of syphilis vaccine development – Lorenzo Giacani, USA
    • State of vaccine development for Neisseria gonorrhoeae – Sanjay Ram, USA
    • State of chlamydia vaccine development – Alvaro Borges, Denmark
    • STI vaccine acceptance and equity – Alison Footman, USA
  • Queer Theory and Intersectionality in STI prevention and care – Brad Stoner, Canada
    • Centering Sex Positivity in STI & HIV prevention – Ruth Morgan Thomas, UK
    • Bodily Autonomy & Integrity – Solange Baptiste, S Africa
    • Chemsex & Sexualised Drug Use – Glenn-Milo Santos, USA
    • Trans and Non-Binary Sexual Health – Arjee Restar, USA