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HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P) is the world’s only scientific meeting dedicated exclusively to HIV prevention research.

Please plan to join us for HIVR4P 2016, 17-20 October 2016 in Chicago, IL, USA. More than 1,300 prevention researchers, funders, policy makers, advocates, and journalists from 45 countries participated in HIVR4P 2014 in Cape Town. Next October, HIVR4P 2016 will take the field even further into research on vaccines, microbicides, ARV-based prevention, and other cutting edge biomedical prevention approaches.

Visit the HIVR4P conference preview website at hivr4p.org. The full conference website premiers 29 January 2016.

PROGRAM

HIVR4P 2016 will feature dozens of abstract-driven sessions, along with symposia, discussions, crosscutting sessions, and meet-the-expert and networking opportunities with leaders in the field.

R4P plenary speakers confirmed!
Deborah Birx, M.D., U.S. global AIDS coordinator, Emilio Emini, Ph.D., director of HIV programs at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of NIAID at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, are all confirmed to speak at HIVR4P 2016. The final conference program will also include a number of plenary addresses from other leaders in HIV prevention research and advocacy.
 
The 46-member conference Program Organizing Committee, representing researchers and advocates from Africa, the Americas, the Asia-Pacific region, and the European Union, is developing a vibrant, interactive program for HIVR4P 2016. More program details will be released early in the New Year.

KEY DATES
Registration and abstract and scholar submission for HIVR4P opens 29 January 2016. A full list of other key conference dates and deadlines is available here.
R4P CONFERENCE CHAIRS IN THE NEWS
HIVR4P 2016 is chaired by four of the world’s leading experts in HIV prevention research.

Thomas Hope, Ph.D., professor in cell and molecular biology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

Jeanne Marrazzo, M.D., M.P.H., professor in the Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Lynn Morris, D.Phil., medical scientist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Nelly Mugo, MBChB, M.P.H., head of the Reproductive Adolescent Child Health Research Program at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

R4P co-chairs Tom Hope and Jeanne Marrazzo authored the perspective piece, “A Shot in the Arm for HIV Prevention? Recent Successes and Critical Thresholds” in the November 6 edition of AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. The article summarizes recent advances and pressing challenges in biomedical prevention, reviews the most promising prevention research underway and on the horizon, and lays out a roadmap to reduce new infections through stepped-up implementation of biomedical prevention approaches worldwide.
 
In the essay, “Two trials signal pivotal point in fight against the AIDS epidemic,” R4P co-chair Lynn Morris and colleagues explain the underpinnings of two new vaccine clinical trials, HVTN 702 and AMP, now in development in South Africa. The former uses an active immunization approach with a candidate based on the vaccine used in the RV144 study, while AMP will study a passive immunization approach with manufactured antibodies. Both studies represent important steps forward in efforts to develop safe and effective vaccines against HIV, and to support developing world research leadership on prevention.
 
BECOME A PARTNER FOR PREVENTION
Join the scientific, medical, philanthropic, and governmental organizations around the world that support the unique mission of HIVR4P: the world’s only scientific conference focused exclusively on HIV prevention research.
 
HIVR4P funding partners help keep conference registration fees low, support conference scholarships for more than 300 promising early career researchers, support diverse educational programming at HIVR4P, and much more. Your organization can support HIVR4P to take the field further into the future of HIV prevention. For more information, please visit our conference partnership page, or contact us at partnership@hivr4p.org.
MORE NEWS IN THE NEW YEAR
Watch for future updates from HIVR4P 2016, including the opening of registration and abstract and scholar submissions on 29 January 2016. You can sign up for regular updates from HIVR4P 2016 here.

 
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