Representatives from the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) attended the 10th Annual International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2019) in Mexico City, Mexico on 21-24 July 2019. The IAS Conference on HIV Science is a biennial conference that brings together approximately 6,000 researchers, advocates, policy makers, funders, and community leaders. It showcases advances in HIV care, prevention, and treatment; explores new directions for HIV care, prevention, treatment, and research; and features the latest in HIV research.
Yusuf Babaye, MBA, MSc, I-TECH Country Representative for Malawi, presented a poster titled, “A Cross-Sectional Study on Levels of Knowledge on Provision of Second-Line Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi in 2016.” The poster focused on the need to build capacity for providing second-line antiretroviral therapy following first-line treatment failure.
I-TECH’s partner notification services work in Mozambique was also highlighted in an article that was included in the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) supplement published prior to IAS 2019. The supplement, “The Power of Partners: Experiences from implementing and scaling-up HIV partner notification and index testing services,” shares key lessons learned from programs implementing, evaluating, and scaling up partner notification services.