The HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P) conference was held in Madrid, Spain, from 21 to 25 October 2018. Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention was examined in five posters, including a 24 October late-breaker on whether VMMC services increased HIV testing uptake among young men in Kisumu, Kenya.
VMMC was also a focus of a symposium on the design of HIV prevention trials in an era of proven HIV prevention tools.
Links to the VMMC presentations in the conference programme are provided below. Some of the posters are available here.
Tuesday, 23 October
Poster Sessions
Venue: Poster Hall Time: 17:30 – 19:30
P07.15
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Uptake Among M-F+ HIV Serodiscordant Couples
Presenter: Hanzunga Halumamba, Zambia Emory HIV Research Project, Zambia
In: Contraception, Pregnancy and HIV Prevention
P14.03
Presenter: Kawango Agot, Impact Research & Development Organization, Kenya
In: Implementation Science, Including Structural Interventions, PrEP & VMMC
P28.25LB
Circumcision Increases the Barrier Function of the Glans Epithelium
Presenter: Gianguido C. Cianci, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, United States
Wednesday, 24 October
Poster Session
Venue: Poster Hall Time: 17:30 – 19:30
P14.52LB
Presenter: Harriet Fridah Adhiambo, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya
In: Implementation Science, Including Structural Interventions, PrEP & VMMC
Poster Discussion Session
Venue: Bristol Time: 16:45 – 17:30
PD02.04
Presenter: Omega Chituwo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Zambia
Symposium
Venue: Oxford Time: 15:00 – 16:30
Beyond Placebo: Designing and Implementing Next Generation HIV Prevention Trials
Chairs: Peter Godfrey-Faussett, UNAIDS, Switzerland; Catherine Hankins, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Netherlands