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The Rectal Microbicides Research Agenda: A Civil Society Update and Consultation Cape Town, South Africa – 7 October 2011Jim Pickett – IRMA, AIDS Foundation of ChicagoBrian Kanyemba – Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation
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The Long and Winding Rectal Road… Global Advocacy to Take Us Where We Want To Go
Today
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• Who is IRMA?• What does IRMA do?• South African advocacy• What is Project ARM?– Goals, objectives– ICASA 2011 satellite
• How can you get involved?
Mission: support development of safe, effective,
acceptable, and accessible
rectal microbicides for all who need them
AFC secretariat
1100+ advocates, scientists, funders, policymakers from
6 continents – IRMA-ALC and IRMA Nigeria
chapters
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Born 2005
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Highly active moderated
listserv
Website• Tons of resources
Blog, Facebook,
Global teleconferences• Recorded, materials posted
Materials• Fact sheets,
reports
Report includes:
Updated resource
tracking & funding
projections
Overview IRMA
activities
Updated Research snapshot
Advocacy goals
Global context
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rectalmicrobicides.org
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Survey now available in English, Spanish, French, Russian and Chinese. Portuguese, Thai and German are coming.
TAKE IT. PASS THE LINK ALONG!
rectalmicrobicides.org
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Get involved in rectal microbicide research and advocacy in South Africa
• Join IRMA (sign up for list)• Add RMs to your
presentations• Show some Rectal
Pride – wear your stickers!• Hand out palm cards• Hand out fact sheets
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Ways to get involved in rectal microbicide research and advocacy in South Africa
• Talk about anal sex!• Join the MTN 017 trial• Get the word out on
MTN 017• Join Project ARM
activities and ensure Africa is on the rectal map
• Long-term, sustained project of IRMA to develop community capacity around rectal microbicide advocacy– ensure broad participation in guiding research activities – ensure well-informed community input into development of
African rectal microbicide research and implementation agenda.
• Project ARM born from series of community consultations with African advocates and allies at Microbicides 2010 , AIDS 2010 and through IRMA listserv
• First-year funding provided by National Institutes of Health/Office of AIDS Research, New Venture Fund
• AVAC an organizing partner 12
• Project ARM’s activities will lead to expanded African rectal microbicide education and advocacy.
• Project ARM’s activities will support the planning and implementation of rectal microbicide clinical trials in Africa in an environment that is as safe as possible for participants.
• Project ARM’s activities will support the eventual rollout of safe, effective, acceptable and accessible rectal microbicides for African men, women, and transgender individuals.
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Goals
• Centerpiece activity– Working/strategy meeting in advance of
ICASA 2011 (International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa)
– Addis, Ababa, Ethiopia, December 2 – 3, 2011
– 45 individuals will participate – Africans/allies• Invited: RSA, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria,
Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Canada, USA
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at ICASA 2011
– Scholarship program to support additional 16 Africans to attend • 145 Africans submitted scholarship
applications• Announcement made yesterday, 5 October• Represented: gay/MSM, female, trans,
openly HIV+, researchers, advocates, NGOs• Cameroon, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, RSA,
Kenya, Nigeria (UK), Rwanda
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at ICASA 2011
• Capacity-building– Enhance capacity of African community advocates to participate in rectal
microbicide agenda-setting, research and mobilisation efforts
• Setting the stage and context– Promote a common understanding of how rectal microbicide research is
proceeding, potential role that African rectal microbicide research and advocacy, and various African contexts within which rectal microbicides would be introduced
• Setting the agenda– Develop strategies for community mobilisation and more African
involvement in rectal microbicides; put rectal microbicides on biomedical HIV-prevention research agenda in Africa; and develop an African rectal microbicide research agenda that is part of global efforts
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at ICASA 2011
• Project ARM video (IRMA, Pop Council, others)– Educate communities and policymakers about
prevalence of anal intercourse among men and women in Africa and associated HIV/STI risks
– Make case for why rectal microbicides are needed in Africa
– Provide information about existing HIV prevention strategies for anal intercourse, including guidance about condom-compatible lubricants
• Produce report for release at Microbicides 2012 in Sydney, Australia– Detailing outcomes from Addis - African-specific
strategy
• FOLLOW THROUGH! 17
Next steps
If you think you’re too small to make a difference… you’ve never spent the night with a mosquito. – AFRICAN SAYING