Program—Wednesday, July 26
Weds 26th July – Plenary Talks
- STIs in Criminalised Populations – Francis Ndowa, Zimbabwe
- Refugee and Migrant Care – Valeska Padovese, Malta
Weds 26th July – Spotlights and Symposia
- Epidemic Preparedness, mpox and beyond – Andy Winter, UK
- Mpox – state of the art clinical review – Boghuma Titanji, USA
- Strengthening epidemic preparedness – Nicola Low, Switzerland
- Personal reflections on mpox and stigma – Harun Tulunay , UK
- Novel strategies to optimise vaginal health – Christina Muzny, USA & Erica Plummer, Australia
- Menstrual Cups: A Potential Intervention for Preventing BV – Supriya Mehta, USA
- Male partner treatment for Women with Bacterial Vaginosis – Catriona Bradshaw, Australia
- Vaginal microbiota transplant to promote Lactobacillus-dominant cervico-vaginal microbial communities – Caroline Mitchell, USA
- Advances in BV Biofilm Research and Investigational Treatments in this Area –
Nuno Cerca, Portugal
- Centering Equity, Inclusion and Diversity in STI Research – Lizzi Torrone, USA
- Why is it critical to center equity, inclusion, diversity in STI research? – Alex de Voux, S Africa
- What are possible unintended consequences of research? – Emily Learner, USA
- Examples of evidence-based approaches to center equity, inclusion, diversity – Zinhle Sokhela, S Africa
- Addressing the HIV and STI Syndemic – what prevention looks like in 2023 – Meredith Clement & Patty Kissinger, USA
- Improving the HIV PEP / PrEP interface – Sheena McCormack, UK
- STI biomedical prevention in 2023: DoxyPEP and beyond – Connie Celum, USA
- Integrating HIV and STI research: Breaking down the silos – Hyman Scott, USA
- Neglected and Emerging STIs – Remco Peters, S Africa
- Disseminated gonorrhoea – often overlooked – Amy Jennison, Australia
- Has chancroid been eliminated in Africa? Tania Crucitti, Madagascar – confirmed
- Emerging causes of urethritis – Erica Plummer, Australia
- Understanding shigellosis in men who have sex with men – Gwenda Hughes, UK
- Implementation to Scale – Sebastian Fuller & Emma Harding-Esch, UK
- What can implementation science tell us about sustaining and scaling-up innovations? – Sebastian Fuller, UK
- Should every successful intervention be scaled-up? The SHE clinic: an inclusive, locally-specific healthcare model for women who inject drugs and exchange sex in Seattle, WA – Jenell Stewart, USA
- Policy and clinical readiness analysis: barriers and facilitators to the integration of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis into Kenyan HIV PrEP programs – Felix Ong’era Mogaka, Nairobi
- Trickle-up HIV care – Jade Pagkas-Bather, USA
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