22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018)

July 23, 2018 - July 27, 2018

RAI Amsterdam Europaplein NL 1078 GZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Researchers from RTI's Global Gender center will be presenting at the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018), being held July 23-27 in Amsterdam.

The International AIDS Conference is the largest conference on any global health issue in the world, and was first convened during the peak of the AIDS crisis in 1985. The theme of AIDS 2018 is "Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges", drawing attention to the need of rights-based approaches to more effectively reach key populations in regions like Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and North Africa/the Middle East where epidemics are growing.

Global Gender Center presenters include:

  • Wendee Wechsberg, PhD, will give an oral presentation on "Combination prevention for women who use alcohol in South Africa: Outcomes from the Women's Health CoOp Plus study in Pretoria, South Africa"

  • Elizabeth Montgomery, PhD

  • Alison Mitchell LeFew, MSc

  • Ariane van der Straten, PhD

  • Ariana Katz, MPH

  • Felicity Young

  • Gretchen van Vliet, MPH

  • Laura Nyblade, PhD

Presenters

Presenter

Wendee Wechsberg

Expertise

Substance abuse treatment

Gender issues and HIV risk

Community-based research

International HIV intervention adaptations

Presenter

Laura Nyblade

Expertise

Stigma, discrimination, and gender

HIV

Data utilization for program and policy design

Presenter

Elizabeth Montgomery

Expertise

HIV prevention research

Quantitative and qualitative methods

Male partner interventions

Presenter

Expertise