Innovative HIV Prevention and Treatment Keynote and Panel Discussion

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18:20 - 20:20 GMT

In Person

Can a Twice-Yearly PrEP Injection Curb the HIV Pandemic?

Join the O’Neill Institute for an in-depth discussion on Lenacapavir, a groundbreaking long-acting injectable PrEP formulation administered just twice a year. This session will examine its potential to transform HIV prevention on a global scale, looking at the latest clinical evidence, regulatory pathways, and the access barriers that may shape its rollout, especially in low-resource settings.

The program will feature a special keynote address followed by a panel discussion with leading experts in HIV prevention and global health, exploring how innovation, policy, and equity intersect in the next frontier of HIV response.

Date: November 12, 2025
Location: 120 F St NW, Washington, DC 20001, Gewirz 12th Floor
Time: 1:20 – 3:20 p.m. EST

Keynote Session
Speaker: Moupali Das, MD, MPH, Vice President, Clinical Development, HIV Prevention and Virology Pediatrics, Gilead Sciences
Moderator: Dr. Charles B. Holmes, Director, Georgetown University Center for Innovation in Global Health; Distinguished Scholar and Program Director·O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center

Panel Discussion
Speakers: Micheal Ighodaro, Executive Director, Global Black Gay Men Connect (GBGMC); Rupa Patel, MD, MPH, Physician, Whitman-Walker Health; Mitchell Warren, Executive Director, AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC)
Moderator: Martha Sichone Cameron, PhD Candidate, Global Infectious Disease, Georgetown University

Featured Resources

Document

Getting LEN Rollout Right: Resources and Tools

The resources listed in this document, alongside insights drawn from the report Getting PrEP Rollout Right This Time, can support countries in the early stages of LEN planning. These tools are being disseminated as part of a coordinated effort between AVAC, CHAI, the Global Fund, PEPFAR, Unitaid, Wits RHI, and WHO under the Coalition to…

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Preferences for Long-acting Injectable HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Service Delivery among Male and Female Sex Workers in Uganda: A discrete choice experiment

This article from PLOS Global Public Health explores service delivery preferences for injectable cabotegravir among heterosexual male sex workers and female sex workers in Uganda.

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Lenacapavir Provider Tools and Job Aids

These editable tools, developed by Wits RHI, can be used to support providers delivering lenacapavir (LEN) for PrEP. The downloadable zip file includes: LEN Factsheet for Clients LEN Counselling Job Aid for Clinicians LEN Counselling Job Aid for Counsellors LEN Initiation Algorithm LEN Injection Procedure Chart HIV Prevention Product Comparison Table LEN Stopping and Switching…

Presentation

Prevention with PURPOSE

This presentation, delivered by Dr Linda-Gail Bekker at IAS 2025, provides an overview of PURPOSE 1 and 2 lenacapavir clinical trial results as well as special considerations for administration to different populations and drug-drug interactions.

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Dynamic Choice HIV Prevention with Long-acting Injectable Cabotegravir Pre-exposure Prophylaxis in East, Central, Southern, and West Africa: A cost-effectiveness modelling analysis

In randomised controlled trials in Kenya and Uganda, a dynamic choice HIV prevention intervention that offered structured choice of biomedical prevention product and opportunity to change products over time substantially improved prevention coverage; incident HIV infections were eliminated when long-acting cabotegravir was included as an option. This article from The Lancet HIV aims to assess…

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What Can Modelling Tell Us about the Scale-up of Lenacapavir for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis?

This brief provides a synthesis of evidence from mathematical modelling, as of June 2025, arising from a meeting of programme managers, civil society representatives, mathematical modellers and international HIV prevention stakeholders convened by the Gates Foundation and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The meeting focused on questions currently being considered by HIV…

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Empowering Women’s PrEP Choices: Qualitative Insights into Long-Acting PrEP Preferences and Decision-Making during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding in South Africa and Botswana

This article from AIDS and Behavior explores preferences for various long-acting PrEP modalities amongst pregnant and lactating people in Botswana and South Africa. It further examines participants’ HIV risk perception during pregnancy and breastfeeding, their perceived individual-level facilitators and barriers of each PrEP modality, and the support needed by participants for PrEP uptake and continuation.

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Global Forecast of Long-Acting PrEP Need for Key Populations (2025–2030)

Developed by AVAC, Avenir, and Global Black Gay Men Connect, this first-of-its-kind forecast estimates: 11.16 million person-years of PrEP needed annually by 2030 among men who have sex with men, transgender women, female sex workers, and people who inject drugs Uptake scenarios for cabotegravir, lenacapavir, and oral monthly PrEP Forecasts segmented by region, population group,…

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Standard Operating Procedure for Injectable Lenacapavir as Pre-exposure Prophylaxis

This document, developed by the South to South Learning Network, provides an adaptable standard operating procedure (SOP) to support the development and adoption of national SOPs that align with World Health Organization recommendations and guidance on injectable lenacapavir for PrEP. Click here for a version of this resource in Word format.

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The WHO and Jhpiego Provider Training Toolkit on Use of Oral and Long-Acting HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)

This toolkit is designed to help clinicians develop knowledge and skills to provide multiple HIV PrEP methods. The toolkit includes resources for oral PrEP, long-acting cabotegravir (CAB-LA), dapivirine vaginal ring (DVR), and long-acting lenacapavir (LEN). Click here to download the full set of additional resources for this training. In October 2025, Jhpiego and WHO held…