HIV/TB AIS Activity at International HIV Conferences in 2024

12-7-2024

The HIV/TB Agency, Information and Services (AIS) Activity, and its implementing partners have been implementing innovative HIV service delivery projects in Myanmar, based on internationally recommended best practices. These projects involve innovative service delivery models, which are reviewed to document and learn from the experiences with aim to demonstrate their contribution to improving HIV prevention interventions, HIV testing, and care and treatment services. AIS and its partners also actively share their experiences with international communities at HIV/AIDS conferences.

During 2024, AIS and its partners were selected for several abstracts to be presented at well-known international HIV conferences. Differentiated service delivery of PrEP with key population- led organizations in Myanmar will be presented as an oral presentation at AIDS 2024, the 25th International AIDS Conference, which will take place in Munich, Germany, from 22 to 26 July 2024 whereas in-person poster presentations for

  • Myanmar’s experience with PWID-centric PrEP access in harm reduction initiatives
  • Enhancing HIV Self-Testing (HIVST) coverage among diverse communities and future directions in Myanmar: Insights from a Pilot Project (May 2022 – March 2024)
  • Index testing contributes to escalating HIV case-finding in the AIS project: a successful HIV case-finding model in Myanmar
  • Role of Social Media Outreach program in engaging key populations for HIV services: Findings from a mixed-method study in Myanmar
  • Breaking Barriers: A Comprehensive Social Media Campaign Against HIV Discrimination
  • Reaching unreached PWID through Integration of PWID-centric approaches in hard-to-reach areas in Northern Myanmar
  • Reducing the incidence of HIV by scaling up interventions for women who use drugs and partners of people who use drugs
  • Horizontal integration of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services (MHPSS) into HIV care for Key populations (KP) among USAID projects in Myanmar.

Scaling up HIV Self Testing through different distribution channels in Myanmar will be presented as an oral presentation at the 5th HIV Research for Prevention Conference, which will take place in Lima, Peru from 6 to 10 October 2024 including a poster presentation for Qualitative assessment on perceived barriers and facilitators to oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Myanmar.

Enhancing HIV testing access in Myanmar: a review of HIV self-testing (HIVST) pilot project and implementation channels (May 2022 to February 2024) will be presented as a poster presentation at the Australasian HIV&AIDS Conference, 2024 which will be held in Sydney from 16 to 18 September 2024.

Empowering HIV prevention: Strategies to more meaningful engage key population (KP) and community leaders in driving tailored HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) communications in Myanmar was presented as a poster presentation at the Asia-Pacific AIDS & Co-Infections Conference (APACC) 2024 which was being held in Hong Kong from 27 to 29 June 2024.

Strategies unveiled: boosting HIV case findings among young injectors (15-24 years) in hard-to-reach areas of Myanmar through the AIS project: Programmatic review (fiscal year 2022 Q1 – 2024 Q1) will be presented as poster presentation at INHSU, 2024 the 12th International Conference on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users which will take place in Athens, Greece from 8 to 11 October 2024.  

AIS and its implementing partners have a focused learning agenda regarding priority interventions for HIV prevention, care, and treatment activities with objective to innovate, advocate, adopt, and amplify internationally recommended service delivery models and innovations in Myanmar. AIS will gather insights from program implementation experiences, advocate for national-level adoption with stakeholders, and collaborate with policymakers to amplify best practices. This will inform policies and program scale-up in the country, thereby improving access to HIV prevention, care, and treatment services for key populations in Myanmar.