The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation will be participating in the 24th International AIDS Conference, the world’s largest conference on HIV and AIDS. This year, AIDS 2022 will call on the world to come together to re-engage and follow the science. It will define future research agendas, shift latest evidence to action, and chart a new consensus on overcoming the HIV epidemic as a threat to public health and individual well-being.

As a leader in the fight for an AIDS-free generation, EGPAF staff will be sharing research and best practices covering a variety of focus areas.

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The Pre-Conference: International Workshop on HIV Pediatrics 2022
The Pre-Conference: Interfaith 2022
The Pre-Conference: Youth 2022
Satellites and Special Sessions
E-Posters
Related Resources: Advanced HIV Disease and Pediatric ARV Optimization

PRE-CONFERENCE: THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HIV & PEDIATRICS

TITLE: COMPARATIVE HIV RISK SCREENING TOOL (HRST) PERFORMANCE OF A VALIDATED AND ALTERNATIVE OPTIMIZED HRSTS FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN UGANDA, TANZANIA, AND MALAWI: A POOLED ANALYSIS
Location: Sofitel Montreal Golden Mile, Montreal Canada (Hybrid) – Session 5: Adolescents and Young Adults 
Presenter: Rhoderick Machekano, The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Date/Time: July 28, 14:15 – 14:30 EDT
About: As part of the International Workshop on HIV & Pediatric’s Session 5 on Adolescents and Young Adults, Rhoderick Machekano will share the results of a pooled analysis on data studies evaluating HIV risk screening tool (HRST) performance in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda, by investigating the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value of these tools, and the number needed to test. The analysis indicates that these screening tools may offer greater benefit among children under 15 years of age than adolescents and highlights the optimal use of screening for the HIV status of parents or siblings and child growth or skin problems. 

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PRE-CONFERENCE: INTERFAITH – TAKING ACTION TO OVERCOME HIV STIGMA & DISCRIMINATION

TITLE: EVIDENCE BASE 1: INNOVATIONS TO TACKLE HIV STIGMA & DISCRIMINATION: UNDETECTABLE = UNTRANSMITTABLE
Hosts: The UNAIDS – PEPFAR Faith Initiative
Date/Time: July 28, 9:00 – 10:30 EDT
Location: La Plaza Centre-Ville-EVO
About: In this session, EGPAF CEO & President, Chip Lyons, will be discussing how optimal HIV pediatric treatment can pave the way to end stigma among children.

TITLE: WHICH M&E FRAMEWORKS ARE IN PLACE THAT CAN BE ADAPTED TO FAITH INTERVENTIONS TO EFFECTIVELY ADDRESS STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION?
Hosts: The UNAIDS – PEPFAR Faith Initiative
Date/Time: July 28, 14:45 – 15:45 EDT
Location: La Plaza Centre-Ville-EVO
About: In this session, Shobana Ramachandran will join a panel of experts to discuss the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of stigma reduction interventions. Specifically, Shobana’s presentation will introduce audience members to fundamental M&E concepts, including building results frameworks, creating logic models, and selecting indicators. As well, the presentation will showcase useful metrics one can develop to track and asses the effectiveness of stigma reduction in HIV/AIDS programming.

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PRE-CONFERENCE: YOUTH

TITLE: BUILDING A YOUTH POSITION AND DECLARATION FOR AIDS 2022
Hosts: Montreal Youth Force
Date/Time: July 28, 15:15 – 16:15 EDT
About: This session will highlight how governments, civil society, and intergovernmental organizations must create inclusive spaces for youth participation and leadership, particularly focusing on marginalized and vulnerable youth and young key populations. This session will coordinate breakout sections, both virtually and in person, for young people to theorize and co-develop a series of asks to adult allies and critical stakeholders about youth needs and priorities. Participants will be asked to reflect on practices of power-sharing, intersectionality, and shared decision-making within the development of their asks and key recommendations. Participants will be provided 35 to 40 minutes to refine a set of recommendations in small groups by sector and interest. Participants will also be asked to build on said asks with data and evidence to back up their recommendations. The refinements made will be utilized to finalize the draft one-pager youth briefing on key youth recommendations, which will be shared with IAS and AIDS 2022 conference attendees and on social media. All participants will be recognized as co-developers of the briefing, which can be utilized as an advocacy tool in future to secure pledges and commitments from donors and allied organizations for additional support.

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SATELLITES, SPECIAL SESSIONS

TITLE: NO TIME TO LOSE: ACTION TO DIAGNOSE AND TREAT THE MISSING 800,000 CHILDREN
Hosts: UNICEF & PEPFAR
Date/Time: July 29, 18:15 – 19:45 EDT
Location: Room 510/Channel 8
About: By the end of 2020, there were an estimated 800,000 children living with HIV not receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) globally. These children are at risk of HIV disease progression leading to immune system suppression and the development of AIDS. Analysis of the 95-95-95 cascade has shown that most of these children have never been tested nor been diagnosed with HIV.  To reverse this trend there is an urgent need to apply and scale up effective approaches that will allow for streamlining of early diagnosis of HIV among children of all ages and effectively linking them with care and treatment services.

This satellite session will demonstrate that this task is achievable if HIV-specific interventions for testing (e.g. provider-initiated testing, index testing, community/home testing, self-testing) are integrated with programmes for primary health care strengthening that engage communities as key partners.

Dr. Judith Kose, Director Pediatric & Adolescent Services at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, will discuss lessons learned from active case finding in community settings and among adolescents and young people (10-24 years) and linking newly diagnosed CALHIV with services.

TITLE: ASK THE EXPERTS—INFLUENCING THE REGULATORY PROCESS
Hosts: AVAC
Date/Time: July 30, 11:00 – 12:00 EDT
Location: Global Village Expert Session
About: EGPAF’s VP of Public Policy and Advocacy, Catherine Connor, will join this expert panel session. Expected outcomes include; increased support for HIV R&D as participants incorporate new knowledge into their work and share information with colleagues and communities; engagement that spurs expansion of the network of advocates who are mobilized around HIV R&D and implementation; and the HIV response, especially prevention and cure, centring the populations most affected by the epidemic.

TITLE: DIALOGUE WITH HIGH LEVEL STAKEHOLDERS: YOUTH DECLARATION
Hosts: Youth Force 
Date/Time: July 30, 12:30 – 13:30 EDT
Location: Global Village – Youth Pavillion 
About: Cosima Lenz, EGPAF Youth and Adolescents Officer, will join Chewe (Associate Director, UNICEF) and Suki Beavers ( Director of the Equality and Rights for All Global Practice, UNAIDS) to discuss the recommendations outlined in the Youth Declaration. 

TITLE: RE-ENGAGING STORIES BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN RESEARCHERS AND ADOLESCENTS
Hosts: Penta
Date/Time: July 30, 17:00 – 18:00 EDT
Location: Global Village Expert Session
About: During this expert panel session, EGPAF staff will engage in an open discussion on what activities have been done around research engaging young people and the opportunities that still exist to further engage them in the process.  

TITLE: STRENGTHENING PARTNERSHIPS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY TO PRIORITIZE RESOURCING FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN THE HIV AND TB RESPONSE IN THE FACE OF COVID-19
Hosts: The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Date/Time: July 31, at 12:00 – 13:00 EDT
Location: Global village channel/room 1
About: The aim of this session is to discuss a replicable model to meaningfully engage diverse stakeholders and civil society organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to create consensus charters for policy priorities to ensure inclusion of children in HIV and TB responses. The session will consist of a panel of experts, representing the perspectives of international non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations and national governments. This panel will share insight about building partnerships virtually to develop critical advocacy tools for ensuring elevation of paediatric priorities in the HIV and TB response. Additionally, it will underscore the necessity of ensuring that community voices inform and influence decision making, even under adverse circumstances like the COVID-19 pandemic. The session will conclude with a Q&A. The expectation is that the session and participants will: describe a virtual model of meaningfully engaging civil society organizations, which could be recreated in various contexts; share perspective of how partnerships can elevate paediatrics in the HIV and TB responses; and articulate policy priorities identified at the country level to ensure inclusion of children and adolescents in national HIV responses.

TITLE:  EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES IN GLOBAL AND NATIONAL POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION: LESSONS FROM THE UNITAID OPTIMAL PROJECT
Hosts: Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI), Unitaid, and AfroCAB
Date/Time: July 31 17:45 – 19:15 EDT
Location: Room 518/Channel 10
About: Over the past five years, there has been historic success in global HIV treatment optimization. At the center of these efforts have been the voice of communities of people living with HIV, whose engagement and leadership has defined both global and national programmatic responses. In 2016, CHAI, AfroCAB, and Unitaid established the Optimal Community Advisory Board (CAB) to elevate the community perspective in policy planning and foster demand generation for optimal products. Through this work, community leaders have helped shape HIV policies and implementation around the world and contribute to the remarkable scale-up of DTG-based regimens. This interactive session will bring together community leaders, international and national policy makers, and implementing partners to reflect on the successes of the CAB model, discuss how communities can help bridge the remaining gaps in treatment optimization and advanced HIV disease, and catalyze the new horizon of HIV programs in LMICs. Panelists will also discuss how to effectively support the capacitation of communities to play a sustained and central role in HIV programs moving forward. The lessons shared in this forum can be utilized by communities, decision-making bodies, governments, funders, and implementing partners to empower communities over this next decade of the global HIV response. Gcinile Nyoni, from EGPAF Eswatini will share perspectives and experiences on community engagement in Eswatini

TITLE: COMPREHENSIVE ADVANCED HIV DISEASE PROGRAMMING
Hosts: The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Date/Time: August 01, 08:00 – 09:00 EDT
Location: Room 510/Channel 8
About: Despite advancements in expanding access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), AIDS-related deaths have plateaued in recent years, and those living with advanced HIV disease (AHD) face a greater risk of death. Those living with AHD represent one-third of all HIV-positive patients in active care. These individuals are more prone to opportunistic infections – including TB severe bacterial infections, and cryptococcal meningitis – that can result in an increased risk of morbidity and mortality. The burden of advanced HIV is significant. Current national strategies and funding priorities do not adequately address the complex issue of advanced HIV disease. Country-specific efforts to curb mortality cannot succeed without appropriate guideline adoption, improvements and innovations in key diagnostic and treatment access and investments in skills of service providers to screen, diagnose and treat advanced HIV. This satellite will explore these barriers but also identify solutions. We will offer an overview of the clinical and programmatic implications of AHD, globally and discuss a model of successful AHD implementation in Malawi. We’ll gather various perspectives on this work and host a panel discussion to chart a path toward successful scaling AHD programming.

• Utilizing a Qualitative Improvement Collaborative to Scale Practical Models for Advanced HIV Disease Services and to Strengthen Capacity for Service Delivery in Malawi
• Advanced HIV Disease (AHD) Issue Brief
• Quantification and supply planning for commodities needed to deliver the WHO-recommended advanced HIV disease package of care

TITLE: LESSONS LEARNED FROM MEANINGFUL ADOLESCENT AND YOUTH ENGAGEMENT (MAYE) TO SCALE UP HIGH-QUALITY MODELS AND STRENGTHEN HIV PREVENTION, CARE AND TREATMENT EFFORTS 
Hosts: USAID and IAS
Date/Time: August 1st from 14:15 – 15:45 EDT
Location: Virtual Workshop
About: This interactive session hosted by IAS and USAID, will focus on MAYE for HIV programming and highlight work from youth-led and youth serving organizations. Presentations will include practical examples of how HIV-funded programs have successfully and meaningfully engaged adolescents and youth, and provide evidence for how MAYE can improve HIV prevention and treatment along with sexual and reproductive health program outcomes. The majority of speakers will be under age 30. Finally, facilitated discussion on the importance of MAYE for sustaining epidemic control and achieving global goals for an AIDS- free generation will contribute to a forthcoming Call to Action.  

TITLE: EGPAF POP UP SESSION: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Hosts: Gilead
Date/Time: August 1, 15:15 – 15:45 EDT
Location: Gilead Booth – Global Village
About: The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) will share their insights and expertise pertaining to the urgent gaps and needs within the pediatric HIV space. EGPAF will highlight an evidence-based project implemented in Kenya and adapted in Malawi. The project focused on improving linkage, retention and quality of responsive HIV care for adolescents living with HIV through facility and community-based elements, including school engagement and the development of HIV-responsive schools.

TITLE: LAUNCH THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE TO END AIDS IN CHILDREN BY 2030: BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS, COMMUNITIES AND INNOVATION
Hosts: UNAIDS, UNICEF, WHO, The Global Fund, PEPFAR, GNP Plus, ICW and YPlusGlobal
Date/Time: August 1, 17:45 – 19:15 EDT
Location: Room 517c/Channel 5 
About: In this Satellite Session, we would introduce and launch The Global Alliance to end AIDS in children, a Global Strategic Initiative to end AIDS in children by 2030. Specific objectives of this Satellite Session are to: 1. To present the ‘Global Alliance’ to national governments, funders, implementing partners and regional and country-based organizations, community-led organizations, faith communities and organizations, and civil society networks including of women and youth living with HIV; 2. To discuss the Alliance’s organization, stakeholder contributions, structure, objectives and expected key outcomes; 3. To deliberate on the way forward for the prioritized interventions; 4. To launch the Alliance.

EGPAF President and CEO, Chip Lyons, will join the panel leaders representing the Global Alliance. 

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E-Posters

Virological outcomes and ARV switch profiles one year after Dolutegravir transition among children in southern Mozambique
Presenter: Nilesh Bhatt

Uptake of raltegravir granules in newborns diagnosed with HIV in Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 pandemic
Presenter: Lise Deneoud

The effects of COVID-19 on HIV care and treatment programs: a multicountry review
Presenter: Shoba Ramachandran

Strengthening the Youth Voice for change: The role of advocacy training in enhancing meaningful engagement by young people in youth friendly HIV service provision
Presenter: Caroline Zinyemba

High mean weight gain among patients on Dolutegravir in Malawi.
Presenter: Thulani Maphosa

Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Receipt Among Adults in Malawi
Presenter: Lucky Makonokaya

COVID-19 Impacts on post-GBV care utilization at EGPAF-supported Health Facilities across Nine African Countries
Presenter: Cosima Lenz

Continuity of care among HIV-positive children and adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in Lesotho: early transfers and relocations pose challenges for follow-up
Presenter: Matseliso Masitha

Building partnerships with Civil Society to prioritize resourcing for children and adolescents in the HIV and TB response in the face of Covid-19
Presenter: Rhoda Igweta

Acceptability of raltegravir granule use for neonates diagnosed with HIV at birth by healthcare workers and caregivers in Zimbabwe: A qualitative analysis
Presenter: Mildrate Murandu

Acceptability and feasibility of a peer-support program for HIV-positive women in Gaza, Mozambique: A qualitative analysis
Presenter: Sozinho Ndima

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RELATED RESOURCES

EGPAF staff has curated a selection of technical documents and resources addressing some of the most critical issues at AIDS 2022. For additional resources, please visit our Resource Library.