CDC's Grand Rounds Presents “Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Prevention of HIV Infection,” today, May 20, at 1 p.m. (EDT).

Join us today for the May session of CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds, “Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Prevention of HIV Infection.” This session will be available via live webcast from CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, May 20, at 1 p.m. (EDT) at http://www.cdc.gov/cdcgrandrounds. The webcast link is only active during the date and time of the session, but all sessions are archived for future viewing.

Each year, an estimated 50,000 individuals become infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the United States. A new prevention strategy, Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), is intended for high-risk populations to reduce their risk of becoming infected with HIV. PrEP includes daily medication and routine follow-up. When used consistently, PrEP is shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection. If delivered effectively and used in combination with other proven prevention methods, PrEP may help address the HIV epidemic in the United States.

Please join us as we explore the opportunities for using PrEP as another tool to prevent the transmission of HIV and discuss the challenges to effective implementation that must be addressed.

Future Grand Rounds topics include Hepatitis C Virus: Looking Back to Look Forward and Public Health Approaches to Reduce U.S. Infant Mortality, an encore presentation.

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Presented By:

Walid Heneine, PhD

Surveillance, Antiretroviral Prophylaxis and Drug Resistance Team Lead 

Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC

“HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Preclinical Research in Animal Models”

Melanie Thompson, MD

Founder and Principal Investigator

AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta

“Evolving Evidence from Clinical Trials of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis”

Dawn Smith, MD, MS, MPH

Biomedical Interventions Activity Lead, Prevention with Negatives Team

Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC

“Program and Policy Challenges for Delivery of PrEP”

Moderated By:

Captain Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH

Director

National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC

  

Facilitated By:

John Iskander, MD, MPH, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

Phoebe Thorpe, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds 

Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Manager, Public Health Grand Rounds

   

For non-CDC staff or those outside of the CDC firewall:

A live external webcast will be available. Presentations are archived and posted 48 hours after each session. Due to security measures at CDC’s Roybal campus, non-CDC staff who wish to attend these sessions in person must have prior clearance and a U.S. state-issued photo ID (e.g., driver’s license, U.S. passport).

Names of non-CDC staff (both domestic and international) should be submitted to the Grand Rounds Team.Please note that all information for international visitors must be submitted at least 10 days in advance.

For CDC staff requiring reasonable accommodations:

It is the policy of CDC to provide reasonable accommodations (RA) for qualified individuals with disabilities to ensure their full inclusion in CDC-sponsored training events.  Employees are asked to submit RA requests at least two weeks prior to the training event.  Please e-mail the request to grandrounds@cdc.gov.

Grand Rounds is available for Continuing Education.

ALL Continuing Education hours for PHGR are issued online through the CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online system. If you have questions, e-mail or call Learner Support at1-800-418-7246 (1-800-41TRAIN).

Those who attend PHGR either in person, Envision, IPTV, or “web on demand” and who wish to receive Continuing Education must complete the online seminar evaluation. Thirty days from the initial seminar the course number will change to WD2346 and will be available for continuing education until February 18, 2016.  The course code for PHGR is PHGR10.

Target Audience: Physicians, nurses, epidemiologists, pharmacists, veterinarians, certified health education specialists, laboratorians, others

Objectives:

1. List key measures of burden of disease involving morbidity, mortality, and/or cost.
2. Describe evidence-based preventive interventions and the status of their implementations.
3. Identify one key prevention science research gap.
4. Name one key indicator by which progress and meeting prevention goals is measured.

CE certificates can be printed from your computer immediately upon completion of your online evaluation. A cumulative transcript of all CDC/ATSDR CE’s obtained through the TCE Online System will be maintained for each user. We hope that this will assist CDC staff and other public health professionals to fulfill the requirements for their professional licenses and certificates.

Learn more about continuing education on the Grand Rounds website.