amfAR at IAS 2025: Presentations and Posters

Public Policy

Are integration and equity at odds?
Co-moderator: Greg Millett (symposium)

Effects of the Anti-Homosexuality Act on HIV service delivery in Uganda: Evidence from community-led monitoring, 2022-2024
Lead author: Allan Nsubuga; co-author: Elise Lankiewicz (poster)

Accessibility of HIV services for key and vulnerable populations (KVPs) in criminalized contexts: findings from KVP-led community monitoring in Dar es Salaam
Lead author: Philbert Liberatus; co-author: Elise Lankiewicz (oral abstract session with live Q&A)

Analysis of the Accelerating Progress in Pediatrics and PMTCT (AP3) Programme in Uganda
Lead author: Kenneth Mwehonge, co-author: Elise Lankiewicz (e-poster)

The health impact of increasing cervical cancer screening for women living with HIV in twelve PEPFAR focus countries
Lead author: Jennifer Sherwood; co-authors: Brian Honermann, Asal Sayas, Elise Lankiewicz, Greg Millett, Annette Sohn (poster)

Impact of U.S. Cuts to Global Funding
Discussion participant: Jennifer Sherwood (Funding Cuts: pre-conference session)

TREAT Asia

Kidney dysfunction in adults living with HIV and HBV: a 10-year retrospective cohort study across seven Asia-Pacific countries
Lead author: Thinh Toan Vu; co-author: Jeremy Ross (poster)

Facilitators and Barriers to Mental Health Service Integration for Women with HIV in Outpatient Care: Insights from Healthcare Providers in Malaysia
Lead author: Anjanna Kukreja; co-author: Jeremy Ross (e-poster)

HIV sexual risk, stigma, mental health, and substance use among transgender people in Southeast Asia: The SEATrans study
Lead author: Tanabodee Payuha; co-authors: Jeremy Ross, Rena Janamnuaysook, Nittaya Phanuphak (e-poster)

Prevalence of sexually-transmitted infections and linkage-to-care rates in a Southeast Asian transgender cohort study
Lead author: Tanabodee Payuha; co-authors: Jeremy Ross, Rena Janamnuaysook, Nittaya Phanuphak (e-poster)

Blood-based biomarkers – neurofilament light (NfL) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) – and cognitive decline among older people with HIV with undetectable viral loads in Thailand
Lead author: Hay Mar Su Lwin; co-author: Akarin Hiransuthikul (poster)

Bridging Gaps in Access to Oral HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): Implementation Outcomes of a Pharmacy-Led PrEP Service Delivery Model in Klang Valley, Malaysia
Lead author: Yan Nee Gan (e-poster)

Navigating implementation challenges for preventive lung health assessments at a publicly funded antiretroviral therapy center for people living with HIV in Pune, India
Lead author: Smita Nimkar; co-author: Ivan Marbaniang (e-poster)

Starved for Justice: Examining Food Insecurity, Discrimination, and Health-Related Quality of Life Among People Living with HIV in Pune, India
Lead author: Ivan Marbaniang; co-author: Smita Nimkar (e-poster)

A cost-utility analysis of an integrated mental health collaborative care model for adolescents and young adults living with HIV or at risk of HIV in Thailand
Lead author: Fred Thomas; co-author: Thanyawee Puthanakit (e-poster)

Scale of differentiated service delivery implementation in HIV care facilities in low- and middle-income countries: a global facility survey
Lead author: Nathalie Veronica Fernandez Villalobos (e-poster)

Trends in ART medication adherence support and monitoring across IeDEA sites: results from three waves of consortium-wide site assessment surveys, 2017, 2020, and 2023
Lead author: Ellen Brazier (poster)

Post-tuberculosis treatment mortality in children and youth initiating ART in the International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Network
Lead author: Heather Root (oral presentation)

Biomedical and Healthcare Systems

Co-infections, viral and host diversity: Impact on HIV cure – Session 1 -Opening and Setting the Scene
Facilitator: Sharon Lewin (pre-conference session)

Co-infections, viral and host diversity: Impact on HIV cure – Session 2 – Viral synergy: Impact on HIV reservoirs
Facilitator: Ole Søgaard (pre-conference session)

Understanding the HIV reservoir: Novel approaches to measure and test HIV-cure strategies
Presenter: Xu Yu (plenary session)

Silencing the transcriptionally active HIV reservoir
Facilitator: Melanie Ott (satellite)

Epigenetic mechanisms of proviral transcriptional silencing
Presenter: Mathias Lichterfeld (satellite)

Metabolic Targeting to Silence the HIV Reservoir
Presenter: Lishomwa Ndhlovu (satellite)

Gene editing against HIV
Presenter: Elena Herrera Carrillo (symposium)

Basic science highlights: Cutting-edge research and implications
Facilitator: Lishomwa Ndhlovu (oral abstract session)

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