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The Rectal Microbicides Research Agenda: A Civil Society Update and Consultation

The Long and Winding Rectal Road… Global Advocacy to Take Us Where We Want To Go. The Rectal Microbicides Research Agenda: A Civil Society Update and Consultation Cape Town, South Africa – 7 October 2011 Jim Pickett – IRMA, AIDS Foundation of Chicago

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The Rectal Microbicides Research Agenda: A Civil Society Update and Consultation

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  1. The Long and Winding Rectal Road… Global Advocacy to Take Us Where We Want To Go The Rectal Microbicides Research Agenda: A Civil Society Update and Consultation Cape Town, South Africa – 7 October 2011 Jim Pickett – IRMA, AIDS Foundation of Chicago Brian Kanyemba – Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation

  2. Today • Who is IRMA? • What does IRMA do? • South African advocacy • What is Project ARM? • Goals, objectives • ICASA 2011 satellite • How can you get involved?

  3. Who is IRMA?

  4. Born 2005 • Mission: support development of safe, effective, acceptable, and accessible rectal microbicides for all who need them • 1100+ advocates, scientists, funders, policymakers from 6 continents – IRMA-ALC and IRMA Nigeria chapters AFC secretariat

  5. rectalmicrobicides.org Global context

  6. Survey now available in English, Spanish, French, Russian and Chinese. Portuguese, Thai and German are coming. TAKE IT. PASS THE LINK ALONG! rectalmicrobicides.org

  7. South African Rectal Advocacy

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. What’s this all about?

  11. 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. Goals • 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.

  13. at ICASA 2011 • 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Next steps • 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. If you think you’re too small to make a difference… you’ve never spent the night with a mosquito. – African saying

  18. Now it’s up to you…

  19. Thank you Questions?

  20. Don’t be a stranger Stay in touch. jpickett@aidschicago.org brian.kanyemba@hiv-research.org.za

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