IRMA’s first Global Teleconference of the year Thursday, February 26, 2009 Get the skinny on the NEW female condom and discuss its implications for anal sex. Featuring presentations by Serra Sippel, CHANGE Executive Director and Mitchell Warren, AVAC Executive Director. Slides and other materials will be made available in advance of the call on the IRMA website. Read More >>

Dr. Rowena Johnston of amfAR and Dr. Anna Foss (pictured) of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine presented “Modelling the impact of a rectal microbicide used by men who have sex with men in Lima, Peru and Bangalore, India” for the last IRMA Global Teleconference of the year, held earlier today. Foss’s excellent slides are Read More >>

Join Dr. Rowena Johnston of amfAR (below) and Dr. Anna Foss (above) of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) for the last IRMA Global Teleconference of the year: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 **Location/Time:Mexico City, Lima – 11:00 AM New York, DC – 12:00 PM (noon)London – 5:00 PMLagos – 6:00 PMBangalore – 10:30 PMBangkok Read More >>

You are invited to join IRMA for: What’s in a name? Working with male-male sexualities, masculinities and genders in South Asia Wednesday, October 29, 2008 with Shivananda Khan Chief Executive, Naz Foundation International Location/Time: Kuala Lumpur – 10:00 PM New Delhi, Lucknow – 7:30 PM Kampala – 4:00 PM Brussels – 3:00 PM UTC (GMT) – 2:00 Read More >>

Read “Everybody knows, but nobody knows – A review of current literature on HIV and male-male sexualities, behaviours and sexual exploitation in Afghanistan,” by Shivananda Khan, released September 2008. For more info on Naz Foundation International, please visit their website. RELATED: You are invited to join IRMA for a Global Teleconference: What’s in a name? Working with Read More >>

SAVE THE DATE! IRMA’s next Global Teleconference is a double feature, co-hosted with our friends at the Global Campaign for Microbicides Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Kuala Lumpur – 2am (Thursday, Sept 11)New Delhi – 11:30pmCopenhagen – 8pmLagos – 7pmNew York City – 2pmChicago, Lima, Mexico City – 1pmSeattle – 11am Here is what is on that Double Read More >>

August 19, 11am eastern HIV-related Travel and Immigration (co-sponsored by Gay Men’s Health Crisis) Speakers include: Robert Bank, GMHC Victoria Nielson, Immigration Equality Eric Sawyer, UNAIDS Vishal Trivedi, GMHC Click here to read more about this call. September 10, 2pm eastern Intro to Drug Resistance: Implications for ARV-based Preventionwith Lori Heise of the Global Campaign for Microbicidesand Read More >>

Save the Date: Conference Call on HIV-related Travel and Immigration International Rectal Microbicides Advocates (IRMA) and Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) invite you to join an international conference call on August 19th, 11:00 am Eastern Dear friends, advocates and activists, The fight against discriminatory HIV-related travel and immigration restrictions is gaining momentum worldwide, and the United States Read More >>

Save the Date! IRMA’s next global teleconference July 10, 2008 at 10:00 am Eastern Kate Morrow, PhD, Assistant Professor of Research, Centers for Behavioral & Preventive Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA will present, “Women and Anal Sex: Yet Another Read More >>

Join IRMA for a Global Teleconference Thursday, May 29, 2008 Dr. Peter Anton will present a summary review of the data presented at M2008 on the first IND-supported rectal microbicide Phase 1 trial (using UC781). The talk will highlight explanations of the various mucosal assays currently in use, the design issues confronted and blinded results, now that Read More >>