Summary of UCSF and CFAR/ARI Partner Abstracts at AIDS 2026

AIDS 2026 Abstracts

Sunday, July 26, 2026

Pre-conference Sessions

8:00-9:00 | 205

PC0303 Treatment at a Crossroads – Crisis, Power and the State of the Movement

• Panel discussion: Treatment at a Crossroads…The Reality Check

Panelist: Michael Reid

11:30-13:00 | 204

PC0303 Basic science and translational clinical studies on HIV cure

• CARD8 and TACKs: Implications for treatment and cure

Presenter: Peter Hunt

14:00-15:00 | 202

PC0104 Session 4: Maintaining the momentum: From scientific innovation to real-world choice

• Panel discussion: Maintaining the momentum for scientific innovation and translating it into real-world choice

Panelist: Michael Reid

Monday July 27, 2026

Global Village

11:45-12:45 | Film Screening

GVFS08 The Last Gift: Jim's Courage, Our Hope

Presenter: Patricia Defechereux

Monday July 27, 2026

Satellite Presentation

15:00-16:30 | 103

SAT57 Immune based strategies for HIV prevention and treatment

• Where do monoclonal bnAbs fit into the HIV prevention landscape

Presenter: Hyman Scott

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Satellite Presentation

12:00-13:00 | 201

SAT26 SAT26 Bridging the implementation gap: Practical insights to strengthen HIV prevention access for key populations

• Stigma-responsive, community-led delivery models for existing and emerging prevention options: What’s working, what’s needed, what’s next

Presenter: Ramya Kumar

13:30-14:30 | 203

SAT34 AI and HIV: Who owns the future of public health?

Moderator: Michael Reid

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Symposium 

10:30-11:30 | 103

SY19 Track A: Basic and translational science - NAbs for cure: Hope or hype?

Panelist: Steve Deeks

15:00-16:00 | 101A

SY05 Cross-track - Beyond pills: The future of long-acting and curative therapies

• Long-acting therapy

Presenter: Monica Gandhi

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Oral Sessions

10:30-11:30 | 202

Track C: Epidemiology and prevention science - From insecurity to inequity: Examining structural drivers of HIV outcomes

• Early impact of funding withdrawal on HIV care and treatment programs in East Africa

Presenter: Hong-Ha Truong

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Oral Sessions

15:00-16:00 | 202

OAB14 Track B: Clinical science - ARTistic strategies 2: The long game

• Randomized, active-controlled, phase 2b study evaluating efficacy and safety of switch to islatravir (ISL) 2 mg with ulonivirine (ULO) 200 mg once weekly in virologically suppressed adults living with HIV-1

Presenter:  Annie Luetkemeyer

OAD21 Track D: Social and behavioural sciences - When stigmas intersect: Advancing HIV stigma research and practice

• Persistent internalised HIV stigma among persons living with HIV in Jamaica and implications for engagement in care in the context of shifting funding priorities

Presenter: Sharlene Jarrett

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Global Village

15:40-16:40 | Global Village Stage

GVMS04 ZERO: Our truth. Our power. A live cultural experience

Presenter: Patricia Defechereux

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Satellite Presentation

18:00-19:30 | 205

SAT24 Treatment interruption and resumption, learning from HIV cure trials

• Cell-intrinsic silencers of the active HIV reservoir

Presenter: Nadia Roan

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Oral Sessions

10:30-11:30 | 201

OAC22 Track C: Epidemiology and prevention science - Digital innovation in HIV: From clicks to care

• Community insights on acceptability of location-enabled devices to improve retention among people who inject drugs in Oakland and San Francisco, California

Presenter: Lila Sheira

10:30-11:30 | 103

OAF25 Track F: Political science, laws, ethics, policies and human rights - People in crisis: Conflict, migration and sustaining HIV care

• Impact of armed conflict on HIV testing services, positivity rates, and treatment services in Sudan 2022 - 2024

Presenter: Amira Adam

14:30-16:30 | 101C

WS18 Track C: Epidemiology and prevention science

• WORKSHOP: New frontiers for anal cancer prevention in people living with HIV: Who is at risk and what we can do about it

Facilitator: Joel Palefsky

16:30-17:30 | 203

OAF32 Track F: Political science, laws, ethics, policies and human rights - Criminalized, but still we rise

• HIV criminalization law enforcement associated with increased stigma among sexual minority men living with HIV in the United States

Presenter: Kevin Sassaman

Friday, July 31, 2026

Symposium 

10:30-11:30 | 204

SY28 Track A: Basic and translational science - Unlocking HIV control: Host-virus genetics, immunity and the path to a cure

• Understanding the active viral reservoir

Presenter: Nadia Roan

12:00-13:00 | 201

SY29 Track F: Political science, laws, ethics, policies and human rights - Rebuilding trust and financing in a fractured world

Moderator: Michael Reid

Friday, July 31, 2026

Oral Sessions

10:30-11:30 | 203

OAF35 Track F: Political science, laws, ethics, policies and human rights - The cost of cuts: Human and systems impacts on the HIV response

• No access, no support: the toll of funding suspension on HIV prevention care among trans women in Janakpur, Nepal

Presenter: Glenda Baguso

12:00-13:00 | 203

OAA38 Track A: Basic and translational science - Reservoir dynamics and latency disruption

• Spatial sequestration of colonic HIV reservoirs from CD8+ T cells fueled by self-sustained immune circuitry and tertiary lymphoid structure formation

Presenter: Julia Prigann

13:30-14:30 | 201

Track D: Social and behavioural sciences - Unshakable care: Protecting LGBTQ+ health in hostile climates

Moderator: Erin Wilson

• Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, mental health, and ART non-adherence among sexual minority men, trans women, and gender-diverse people living with HIV in Ghana: A mediation analysis

Presenter: Akua Gyamerah

Sheri Lippman

Poster Presentations

PE-A4 Track A: Basic and translational science - Understanding and targeting persistent HIV reservoirs

• CD4+ T and HIV reservoir cells exhibit distinct features in upper and lower mucosa of ART-suppressed women with HIV

Presenter: Xiaoyu Luo

• Plasma-derived extracellular vesicle phenotypes associate with HIV reservoir size

Presenter: Erika Marques de Menezes

PE-A5 Track A: Basic and translational science - Novel treatment and prevention strategies, vaccines and immunotherapies

• Development and delivery of HIV-specific epigenome editors for long-term viral silencing

Presenter: Francisco Zapatero Belinchón

PE-B3 Track B: Clinical science: Diagnostic and monitoring tools

• Evaluating a point-of-care urine test for ART adherence in HIV-positive youth in Zambia

Presenter: Monica Gandhi

PE-B6 Track B: Clinical science: Antiretroviral therapies and clinical issues in adults

• Expected hair concentrations of long-acting cabotegravir and rilpivirine with on-time injections: real-world studies allow for pharmacokinetic interpretations in the clinic

Presenter: Hideaki Okochi

PE-C1 Track C: Epidemiology and prevention science - Epidemiology of HIV

• How gender-affirming vaginoplasty relates to sexual risk behaviors among trans women in San Francisco

Presenter: Glenda Baguso

• High prevalence of transactional sex among adolescents in Kenya

Presenter: Hong-Ha Truong

PE-C3 Track C: Epidemiology and prevention science – Modelling the HIV Pandemic

Co-occurring factors associated with risk of major adverse cardiovascular events among people with and without HIV

• Presenter: Derek Satre

Elise Riley

Michael Silverberg

PE-C6 Track C: Epidemiology and prevention science - Population-specific interventions for HIV prevention 

• Low PrEP uptake among women engaged in sex work: patterns, barriers, and opportunities for intervention

Presenter: Gueslyn Velasquez

• Understanding preferences for PrEP technologies and implementation programming among young female sex workers in Zanzibar: a discrete choice experiment

Presenter: Lila Sheira

PE-C9 Track C: Epidemiology and prevention science - Monitoring the epidemiology, impact and prevention of new or resurgent pathogens

• Challenges and lessons from Mpox response in Puerto Rico: provider perspectives on diagnosis, management, and preparedness

Presenter: Edda Santiago-Rodríguez

PE-D1 Track D: Social and behavioural sciences - Social and/or behavioural science theories, frameworks, concepts and methods

• Economic empowerment for HIV prevention: development of a scale for adolescent girls and young women in Kenya

Presenter: Margaret Gichane

PE-D2 Track D: Social and behavioural sciences - Social and behavioural aspects and approaches to HIV prevention and living with HIV

• Why aren’t people who inject drugs using PrEP? Barriers and opportunities to improve uptake

Presenter: Paavani Lella

• Provider perspectives regarding out-of-clinic delivery of long acting injectable antiretroviral therapy (LAI ART): a qualitative exploration across six southern U.S. sites

Presenter: Morgan Philbin

• From savings to safety: how financial empowerment reduces alcohol use and high-risk sexual behaviors among young Kenyan men - qualitative evidence from a randomized trialS

Presenter: Carol Camlin

• Anticipated external stigma and associations with treatment interruption among men living with HIV in Malawi: a mixed-methods secondary analysis

Presenter: Charisse AHMED

• Exploring barriers and facilitators to pharmacy-based HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis

Presenter: Jerika Lam

Jennifer Cocohoba

• Feasibility and acceptability of PrEP options for trans women and travestis: perspectives from community and health systems stakeholders

Presenter: Gustavo Saggese

Sheri Lippman

PE-D3 Track D: Social and behavioural sciences - Social, cultural, political, legal, environmental and structural determinants of health in different contexts

• Climate variability, water insecurity, and HIV treatment outcomes in Ghana

Presenter: Jerry John Ouner

• Digital contact, real acceptance: Results from a social media campaign to dismantle stigma toward trans women in Nepal

Presenter: Erin Wilson

• Structural vulnerability, sociality, and quality of life among older transgender women: matriarch study findings

Presenter: Sonya Lily Grant Arreola

• Exploring the intersection of stigma, disclosure and support in a women-only HIV cure-related trial with analytical treatment interruption in Durban, South Africa

Presenter: Karine Dube

PE-D4 Track D: Social and behavioural sciences - Community leadership and engagement in HIV and STIs 

• An all-Women ATI-inclusive HIV cure-related trial in Durban, South Africa: how participants managed ethical and psychosocial challenges

Presenter: Karine Dube

PE-D5 Track D: Social and behavioural sciences - Key populations and other vulnerable populations: Behavioural, social, cultural, structural and multilevel issues, contexts, interventions and behavioural surveillance

• Hybrid Delphi Consensus Recommendations to Enhance Inclusion in HIV Cure-Related Trials

Presenter: John Sauceda

• Low PrEP awareness among Latino immigrants in the United States

Presenter: Gueslyn Velasquez

• Menopausal stigma among women living with HIV in Siaya, Kenya: a qualitative study

Presenter: Lauren Suchman

• Client satisfaction of the C-CARES model: a clinical care program using multi-systems navigation and low-barrier HIV care for PWH leaving jail

Presenter: Angelo Asa Clemenzi-Allen

• Associations between civic engagement and HIV testing among LGBTQ+ Californians

Presenter: Xandro Xu

• Power struggles among Latino HIV service providers: encountering racism in the workplace and barriers in providing culturally and linguistically appropriate HIV services for Latinos

Presenter: Moctezuma Garcia

PE-D6 Track D: Social and behavioural sciences - Mental health and well-being interventions, programmes and models

• The association between psychological distress and suicide ideation among sexual minority men living with HIV in Jamaica: the moderating role of resilient coping and social support resources

Presenter: Orlando Harris

• Use of psychedelic medicines for mental health and substance use among youth with HIV in the United States

Presenter: Marie C.D. Stoner

PE-D7 Gender, sexuality and sexual cultures: Meanings, identities, norms and interventions in HIV and STIs

• Afterhood: living, aging, and meaning after crisis among older gay men

Presenter: Jesus Ramirez-Valles

• Ageing in diversity: experiences of LGBTQ+ people living with HIV aged 50+ in Québec

Presenter: Hatem Laroussi

PE-E2 Track E: Implementation science, economics, systems and synergies - Implementation research to scale up prevention 

• Geospatial location-allocation analysis reveals three distribution locations to maximize HIV prevention service reach for persons who inject drugs engaging in sex trade in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

Presenter: Natasha Ludwig-Barron

• Best practices for the successful scale-up of long-acting injectable antiretrovirals for HIV treatment: a qualitative study across six sites in the Southern United States

Presenter: Morgan Philbin

• A comparative effectiveness trial of two mHealth technologies to support PrEP use among MSM and transgender people in the US

Presenter: Albert Liu

• Discrimination and early PrEP discontinuation among women in sex work in Zambia: implications for long-acting PrEP rollout

Presenter: Ramya Kumar

PE-E3 Track E: Implementation science, economics, systems and synergies - Implementation research to scale up treatment

• Timeliness of long-acting ART injections: a repeated measures analysis by injection administration location and housing status

Presenter: Chesa Cox

PE-E4 Track E: Implementation science, economics, systems and synergies - Global and national financing, economic evaluation and sustainability

• US public insurance option improves HIV care continuum outcomes for men and women of diverse ages: 50-state difference-in-differences analysis

Presenter: Ryan Whitacre

PE-E6 Track E: Implementation science, economics, systems and synergies - Costing, cost effectiveness and affordability

• Cost-effectiveness of integration of tobacco cessation services into HIV care: results from a cluster-randomised trial in Kisumu, Kenya

Presenter: Elly Wandago Assurah

PE-E9 Track E: Implementation science, economics, systems and synergies - Integration of HIV services with other health and support services

• Integration of tobacco cessation into routine HIV care in Kenya: results from the InTOUCH cluster-randomized trial

Presenter: Starley Shade

Purba Chatterjee2

Stella Bialous

• Conversations at the point of care: a qualitative study of provider–healthcare client interactions and tobacco cessation in HIV clinics Kisumu County, Western Kenya

Presenter: Isaac Mukoko

Purba Chatterjee

Stella Bialous

• Cost-effectiveness of integration of tobacco cessation services into HIV care: results from a cluster-randomised trial in Kisumu, Kenya

Presenter: Elly Assurah

Stella Bialous

• Implementation of integrated tobacco cessation support in Kenyan HIV clinics: a mixed-methods evaluation

Presenter: Francesca Odhiambo

Stella Bialous

• Adverse events during tobacco dependence treatment and cessation outcomes among people living with HIV in Western Kenya

Presenter: Francesca Odhiambo

Stella Bialous

• Integrating tobacco cessation into HIV care: sustained improvements in provider practices 12 months after web-based training in Kenyan Ministry of Health clinics (In-ToUCH trial)

Presenter: Eric Juma

Purba Chatterjee

Craig Cohen

Starley Shade

Stella Bialous

PE-F5 Track F: Political science, laws, ethics, policies and human rights – Ethics and HIV

• Epistemic violence and resilient oblivion: public health's pathologization of Black and Latina transgender women in HIV research sustains structural violence and health inequity

Presenter: Luz Venegas

PE-F5 Track F: Political science, laws, ethics, policies and human rights - Policy development, implementation and analysis

• The impact of removing insurance pre-approval on access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in California, U.S.

Presenter: Megan Heise

• Aligning bilateral health compacts with the Kigali Declaration: a comparative analysis of three U.S. health MOUs in Africa

Presenter: Jirair Ratevosian

Judith Auerbach