See invitation below to a PrEPworkshop in Brighton.
For further enquiries please contact:
Dr Paul Boyce,
P.Boyce@sussex.ac.uk or
Alex Pollard,
A.Pollard@bsms.ac.uk.
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AFTER PREP: ETHICAL SEXUALITIES, VIRAL MEMORIES, AND NEW SOCIO-MEDICAL LANDSCAPES IN HIV PREVENTION. WORKSHOP. Event to be held at the following time, date and location:
Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 10:00
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Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:00 (BST)
Institute of Development Studies Convening Space
Library Road, University of Sussex
BN1 9RH Brighton
United Kingdom
To attend or share info about this event, please go here:
http://tinyurl.com/gp9xnz8 Background:
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is marking a milestone in contemporary HIV prevention technologies and strategies as it is promoted to specifically targeted HIV negative to prevent them acquiring HIV. This is taking shape via new and on-going international and national policies aimed at achieving a post-AIDS future. Inevitably PrEP is emerging as intrinsically bound to the production of new discourses on mutual care, pleasure, gender, bodily integrity, sexual risk and transgression. PrEP has revived interest in the targeting of female, transgender and male sex workers and men who have sex with men. It raises important practical questions about how HIV prevention is accessed and what policy and programming are needed to support it. As a shift to biomedical technology it also raises ethical questions and brings into focus the relationship between bio-politics and sexual subjectivity. In this context bio-medical/public health investment in HIV and AIDS work globally, the relationship between communities, sexualities and bodies is being radically re-narrated. and re-organised.
Speakers and other participants will share perspectives from various academic disciplines and organisations working closely with the introduction of PrEP in different settings. It will provide an opportunity to collectively think about the implications of PrEP in the context of social and political-economic transformations, international development, and post-AIDS futures. Contributors include
Simon Watney
Benjamin.Bloom /Terrence Higgings Trust
Paul Boyce/ University of Sussex
Matteo Cassolato/ International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Robbie Currie /Health Commissioner
Catherine Dodds /London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Kirk Fiereck/ University of Amsterdam
Ivan Grabovac /Mount Royal University
Adrian Guta / University of Ottawa
Peter Keogh /The Open University
Ulla Knight/Goldsmiths College, University of London
Alvaro Martinez Lacabe/ Center for the Study of Sexual Dissidence, University of Sussex
Gitau Mburu/ International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
Will Nutland / London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Grainne O'Connell/ University of Sussex
Cheryl Overs /Institute of Development Studies
Alex Pollard/ Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Marsha Rosengarten / Goldsmiths College, University of London
Jaqui Stevenson/ Goldsmith
Anette-Carina Van der Zaag /Goldsmiths College, University of London
Charles Witzel/ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Ingrid Young /University of Glasgow
The workshop will be held at the Institute of Development Studies in June 2 and 3 with lunch and a reception provided.
We hope you can make it.
Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
Institute for Development Studies.
Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence and School of Global Studies. University of Sussex.
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