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FRom stIgmA to stRengtH MSMGF PRE-CoNFERENCE

07:00 08:30 08:30 09:15 rEGISTrATIOn OPEnInG SESSIOn Welcome and Introduction by MSMGF Co-Chairs and Executive Director Remarks by the Hon. Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) Introduction by MSMGF Pre-Conference Planning Committee Remarks by Kemal Ordek, Global network of Sex Work Projects (via satellite link to Sex Work Hub in Kolkata, India) 09:15 09:35 MOrnInG PLEnArY SESSIOn 1 Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Addressing Criminalization in All Its Forms Plenary Address by the Hon. Michael Kirby, the Global Commission on HIV & the Law Introduction by Robert Suttle, Assistant Director of the SERO Project 09:35 09:55 MOrnInG PLEnArY SESSIOn 2 optimizing Treatment/Revolutionizing Prevention: New Research and its implications for HiV Responses among Gay Men/MSM and Transgender People Plenary Address by Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD, Director, national Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Introduction by Dr. Deborah L. Birx, Director of CDCs Division of Global HIV/AIDS (DGHA) in the CDC Center for Global Health (CGH) 10:00 10:30 10:30 12:00 12:00 13:30 13:30 15:00 15:30 15:50 MOrnInG COFFEE BrEAK MOrnInG BrEAKOUT SESSIOnS (Descriptions on pages 7 11) nETWOrKInG LUnCH AFTErnOOn BrEAKOUT SESSIOnS (Descriptions on pages 11 17) VIDEO PrESEnTATIOn: A History of ACT UP Introduction by Dr. Jorge Saavedra, Global Ambassador, AIDS Healthcare Foundation

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rOBErT CArr MEMOrIAL LECTUrE In an effort to pay tribute to the life and legacy of a tireless advocate, friend, and late MSMGF Co-Chair Dr. Robert Carr, we are pleased to present the first annual Robert Carr Memorial Lecture at the Fifth MSMGF PreConference to the International AIDS Conference. Why Laws Matter? Lecture by Maurice Tomlinson, Legal Advisor, Marginalized Groups, AIDSFree World Introduction by JoAnne Keatley, Director, Center of Excellence for Transgender Health

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MSM AnD TrAnSGEnDEr ACTIOn PLATFOrM Presentation of key outcomes from break-out sessions by Tom Pyun Launch of the MSM and Transgender Action Platform Looking to Melbourne, Australia 2014 An invitation from Matt Dixon, Executive Director of the Victoria AIDS Council - Gay Mens Health Centre

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morning Break-out session Descriptions

10:30 - 12:00 (90 MInUTES)
1. New Strategies in Prevention: Research and Emerging Science recent trial results have confirmed the efficacy of using antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV, in both HIV-positive and HIV-negative people. This emerging arena of science has the potential to revolutionize HIV prevention. In this session, researchers and community leaders will present data from recent trials, comment on their implications for practice, and discuss forthcoming trial plans. Room Assignment: Academy Hall Moderators: A. Cornelius Baker, FHI 360 Gus Cairns, nAM Publications Speakers: robert Grant, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco Ian McGowan, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Bruno Spire, InSErM/AIDES Darrel Wheeler, Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work 2. Bridging the Divide: HIV Criminalization and Perceptions of Responsibility for HIV Prevention This session will address the impact of HIV criminalization laws on HIVrelated stigma and perceptions of responsibility for HIV prevention. Video presentations, research findings, and personal testimony will explore lived experiences of criminalization and critical policy issues. Group discussion and debate will allow for sharing of perspectives, exploration of changing perceptions, and strategizing for advocacy. The focus of this session is on the United States and Canada, the countries in which the largest number of prosecutions have occurred based on HIV status. Room Assignment: Vista Room A Moderator: Edwin Bernard, HIV Justice network Speakers: FACE OFF, a short video by Mark S. King, My Fabulous Disease Dr. Eric Mykhalovskiy, York University nick rhoades, The Center for HIV Law & Policy Sean Strub, The SErO Project robert Suttle, The SErO Project 3. LIVING 2012 Continued PART 1: Implications for MSM and Transgender Advocates This session will share key outcomes from LIVInG 2012, the 13th International Conference of people living with HIV, including the new Global Ad-

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vocacy Agenda for people living with HIV. LIVInG 2012 is a 2-day event organized by the Global network of People Living with HIV (GnP+), taking place July 1920, 2012 in Washington, DC. In this session, conference participants will share updates on the 3 priority issues identified via consultations with people living with HIV: access to treatment, care, and support; human rights; and community mobilization and activism. Room Assignment: Balcony Room B Presentation: Living 2012 Participants 4. Mounting an Advocacy Response Against Human Rights Violations and Abuses Faced by Transgender Communities Worldwide This session will feature a panel of trans activists who will discuss various ways in which human rights abuses exacerbate HIV risk and negative health outcomes among transgender communities worldwide. Case study examples highlighting strategies for documenting and challenging these violations at the local, national, regional, and global levels will be discussed. The panelists will shed light on recent successes related to the removing of legal barriers among transgender people in Argentina, Australia, the United States, India, and Sweden. Room Assignment: Angle Room B Moderator: Mauro Cabral, Global Action for Trans* Equality Speakers: Cecilia Chung, Center of Excellence for Transgender Health Aram Hosie, WA Gender Project Simran Shaikh, Alliance India Maria Sundin, The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender rights 5. Targeting YMSM: An International Look at Programs and Funding for Young MSM Young MSM (YMSM) are highly vulnerable to HIV, owing to a combination of factors that impact the health and human rights of young people and MSM respectively. Despite the clear and growing need for intervention, programs for general youth and general MSM often fail to account for the unique needs of YMSM. This session will examine the gaps in funding and programs for YMSM globally, followed by a look at existing programs that have attempted to address YMSM needs. Finally, the session will offer perspectives on linking YMSM programs with funding opportunities and thoughts on what donors should look for in project proposals. Room Assignment: Globe Theater Moderator: George Victor Owino, Ishtar MSM Speakers: Mohamed Alborgi, national foundation For Productive Family and Society (Hemaya program) Benjamin Clapham, amfAr

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Ashot Gevorgyan, We For Civil Equality Michael Heflin, Open Society Foundation Sergio Lpez, SOMOSGAY Ifeanyi Kelly Orazulike, International Center for Advocacy on rights to Health Justine Sass, UnESCO Asia-Pacific regional Bureau for Education 6. Keeping the Pressure Up: A Dialogue With Donors on Increasing HIV Investments Targeted at Programs for MSM and Transgender People This session on global financing is designed as a dialogue between donors and advocates on donor accountability and the lack of meaningful tracking of resources intended for MSM and transgender HIV programs. The panel will feature experts representing bilateral, multilateral, and private philanthropic agencies. Strategies for what advocates can do at the regional, national, and global levels to directly and meaningfully engage with donors will be discussed. Room Assignment: Balcony Room C Moderator: James robertson, India HIV/AIDS Alliance Speakers: Paul Jansen, Hivos Monique Middelhoff, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Owen ryan, amfAr Deborah von Zinkernagel, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator David Wilson, World Bank 7. Sexual Health and Happiness Part 1: Research Process, Methods, and Design Organized as a 2-part discussion, this stream will use findings of recent research to expand understandings and conceptualizations of sexual health among gay men/MSM and transgender people.The morning session will focus on research process, methodologies, and design used to gather data about sexual health.Our overall aims will be to challenge HIV-centric paradigms of sexual health in favor of more contemporary understandings, meanings, and approaches; promote asset-based strategies to research and practice; address social and structural factors affecting gay men, MSM, and transgender people; and discourage sanitized, prescriptive, top-down, or moralistic interventions in favor of programs that are sexpositive, participatory, bottom-up, and non-judgmental. Room Assignment: Vista Room B Moderator: Sonya Arreola, rTI International Speakers: Adam Bourne, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Aunsha Hall, Latino Commission on AIDS Sel Hwahng, Beth Israel Medical Center/Columbia University Ernest Massiah, UnIADS Caribbean regional Support Team Axel J. Schmidt, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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8. Common Bonds/Different Journeys Part I: Strengthening the Response to HIV Among Ethnic Minority MSM & Transgender People in the Global North This session brings together a dynamic panel that will speak to emerging issues, challenges, and opportunities focused on MSM and transgender persons from larger, more established, multigenerational legacy communities of color in the Global north. Learning objectives are to highlight emerging issues for distinct legacy communities of color in the Global north, including African Americans, Latino populations, and native/American Indian populations to provide a nuanced understanding of why ethnic minority MSM and transgender populations from legacy communities of color in the Global north need specific and targeted HIV responses and strategies to provide increased networking and knowledge-sharing opportunities among ethnic minority MSM and transgender participants

Room Assignment: Vista Room C Moderator: Patrick Wilson, Columbia University Speakers: Earl Fowlkes, International Federation of Black Prides Michael Hinson Jr, International Federation of Black Prides Andrea Lamour-Harrington, US Positive Womens network Elton naswood, The red Circle Project richard Zaldivar, The Wall: Las Memorias 9. Interacting Effectively with Health Systems and Providers to Improve Care Among Gay and Transgender Communities This session features health systemsrelated work conducted by HIV professionals and advocates in diverse contexts from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Experts will share strategies on increasing local capacity to improve HIV-related service delivery among MSM and transgender communities. A new publication developed by the Pan American Health Organization on behalf of transgender communities in Latin America and the Caribbean will be released at this session. Room Assignment: Angle Room C Moderator: Walter Bockting, University of Minnesota Speakers: Ben Brown, Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Carlos Caceres, University of Lima Kimberly Green, FHI 360 rafael Mazin, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization 10. Speaking Out Loud: Effective Strategies for Managing the Challenges Associated With MSM-Led Advocacy in Central America, North Africa, and Southeast Asia This session will feature activists from north Africa, Central America, and Southeast Asia sharing their real-life experiences implementing advocacy

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strategies utilizing a community-led advocacy toolkit for the health and human rights of MSM. Major objectives include sharing the key steps involved with developing and implementing locally specific adaptations of Speaking Out; discussion of the major challenges, successes, and lessons learned from the Speaking Out process; and implications for future regional advocacy activities and initiatives. This session goal is to explore the commonalities, differences, and synergies that occurred while building advocacy capacity for MSM across the 3 regions. Participants will gain an enhanced understanding of the different experiences, knowledge, and approaches used to implement advocacy trainings for HIV and MSM activists in diverse regions. It is expected that this discussion will encourage South-South exchange, maximizing tools and resources to develop and implement local and international advocacy strategies. Room Assignment: Balcony Room D Moderator: Jonathan ripley, Consultant Speakers: Latifa Imane, ALCS Javier Medina, Asociacion Kulkulcan Le Thanh, GLink 11. Leveraging Networked and Digital Technologies for HIV Prevention, Education, and Care for Gay Men, Other MSM, and Transgender Communities During the last decade, networked and digital technologies have transformed the sexual and social behaviors and practices of many gay men, other MSM, and transgender people. Digital technologies have undoubtedly increased the possibilities for high-risk sexual behaviors, but they are equally powerful tools for sexual health and community mobilization, particularly for people living with HIV. This presentation will highlight examples of organizations working to improve access to health and human rights for marginalized gay men, other MSM, and transgender populations, which remains a key research and implementation design challenge for global and public health in light of the profound changes brought about by digital technologies on sexual practices. Room Assignment: Balcony Room E Moderator: Ben Tunstall, Terrence Higgins Trust Speakers: nada Chaiyajit, BABSEA CLE Matthias Kuske, Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Kathy Triffitt, Positive Life nSW Australia Christopher Walsh, The HIVe & The Open University (UK)

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Afternoon Break-out session Descriptions

13:30 - 15:00 (90 MInUTES)

1. From Science to Practice: What Does Combination Prevention Mean for Community? recent trial results have confirmed the efficacy of using antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV, in both HIV-positive and HIV-negative people. This emerging arena of science has the potential to revolutionize HIV prevention. In this session community leaders, service providers, and public health officials will discuss the challenges of integrating new biomedical strategies into existing prevention methods. Will they be funded? Will people use them? Could they have negative consequences? Can they be owned by the MSM community in the same way safe sex was? Room Assignment: Academy Hall Moderators: A. Cornelius Baker, FHI 360 Gus Cairns, nAM Publications Speakers: Pedro Goicochea, J. David Gladstone Institutes/Invetigaciones mdicas en salud Brian Kanyemba, Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Midnight Poonkasetwatana, Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health Matthew rose, Freelance Consultant

2. Global Learning, Local Solutions: MSM, HIV, and the Law in Sub-Saharan Africa Punitive laws criminalizing consensual same-sex conduct hinder access to HIV prevention, treatment, and care services as documented in submissions to the Global Commission on HIV and the Law. There are global lessons to be learned about the impact of these laws, the efforts to repeal them, and the creation of enabling environments for improved access to HIV services. In order to be effective and sustainable, these efforts should be led by and rooted in local contexts and lived experiences of key beneficiaries. Decriminalization efforts must be embedded within a broad, comprehensive structural and social reform agenda. Room Assignment: Balcony Room E Moderator: Joel nana, African Men for Sexual Health and rights Speakers: Cyriaque AKO, International Centre for Humanitarian Actions networking and Grassroots Empowerment Joseph Akoro, The Independent Project for Equal rights Mandeep Dhaliwal, United nations Development Programme Kene Esom, African Men for Sexual Health and rights

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3. LIVING 2012 Continued, Part 2: Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention for MSM and Transgender People Living With HIV This session builds on the LIVInG 2012 morning session, and explores how the Global Advocacy Agenda can be used to achieve positive health, dignity, and prevention for MSM and Transgender People living with HIV. Participants will be updated on the Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention Framework and operational guidelines, and how these tools can be used to promote the human rights, health, and general well being of MSM and Transgender People living with HIV. Room Assignment: Balcony Room B Presentation: Living 2012 Participants 4. Global Call to Action: Eliminating Barriers Related to Increased HIV Prevalence Among Trans Women and Trans Sex Workers Around the World This session will feature a panel of trans activists who will discuss the increasing HIV prevalence among transgender communities in the context of several barriers that continue to undermine robust public health responses. Issues related to data collection and epidemiological surveillance both within and outside of health systems will be discussed. Charting a way forward, this session will end with a global call to action for addressing structural barriers, lack of investments, human rights abuses, and exclusion of transgender communities across all levels within the HIV sector and beyond. Room Assignment: Vista Room C Moderator: Danielle Castro, Center of Excellence for Transgender Health JoAnne Keatley, Center of Excellence for Transgender Health Speakers: Jordan Blaza, AIDS Project Los Angeles Manisha Dhakal, Blue Diamond Society Jamison Green, World Professional Association for Transgender Health Anita radix, Callen Lorde Community Center Amitava Sarkar, Solidarity and Action Against the HIV Infection in India 5. Stigma to Strength: An Inter-Generational Reflection on HIV Prevention and MSM Leadership MSM are disproportionately affected by HIV globally. While our response has seen many successes, in much of the world our communities remain in crisisparticularly younger MSM (YMSM). While YMSM face some of the same challenges as older MSM, they also face a number of issues distinct to their age group. This panel explores these issues and other advances made in the health and human rights of MSM populations from a generational perspective. It features an intergenerational dialogue of MSM leaders from around the world, discussing the lessons learned and how to promote and sustain effective prevention strategies while building stronger communities.

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Room Assignment: Balcony Room D Moderator: Daniel Townsend, International Council of AIDS Service Organizations Speakers: Joseph Akoro, The Initiative for Equal rights Don Baxter, Global Forum on MSM & HIV Daniel Driffin, University of Connecticut Sean Strub, The SErO Project Cheikh Traore, Independent Consultant 6. Challenges and Opportunities for Global FundLed HIV Programs Among MSM and Transgender People in Low and Middle-Income Countries This session is exclusively focused on Global Fund HIV programs among MSM and transgender people. This will give advocates the opportunity to learn more about recent changes within the Fund and the implications of these changes for key populations. Panelists for the session each represent the various core structures of the Fund (Board, Secretariat, Country Coordinating Mechanism, and Grant recipient) and therefore will bring unique perspectives to the dialogue. Room Assignment: Balcony Room C Moderator: Dave Traynor, Communities Delegation to the Board of the GFATM Speakers: Alvaro Bermejo, International HIV/AIDS Alliance Laurindo Garcia, B-Change Tonya nyagiro, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Leo Sanchez, Amigos Siempre Amigos 7. Sexual Health and Happiness Part 2: Findings and Lessons Learned Organized as a 2-part discussion, this stream will use findings of recent research to expand understandings and conceptualizations of sexual health among gay men/MSM and transgender people.The afternoon session will be devoted to the presentation of main findings and lessons learned from recent studies and programs in the field.Our overall aims will be to challenge HIV-centric paradigms of sexual health in favor of more contemporary understandings, meanings, and approaches; promote asset-based strategies to research and practice; address social and structural factors affecting gay men, MSM and transgender people; and discourage sanitized, prescriptive, top-down, or moralistic interventions in favor of programs that are sex-positive, participatory, bottom-up, and non-judgmental. Room Assignment: Vista Room B Moderator: Sonya Arreola, rTI International Speakers: Adam Bourne, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Aunsha Hall, Latino Commission on AIDS Sel Hwahng, Beth Israel Medical Center/Columbia University

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Ernest Massiah, UnIADS Caribbean regional Support Team Axel J. Schmidt, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 8. Common Bonds/Different Journeys Part 2: Navigating HIV and Health as Ethnic Minority MSM and Transgender People in the Global North This session brings together a dynamic panel that will speak to emerging issues, challenges, and opportunities focused on ethnic MSM and transgender persons from more recent, migrant, and/or mobile populations in the Global north. Learning objectives are to highlight emerging issues for emerging recent/migrant/mobile communities of color in the Global north to provide a nuanced understanding of why ethnic minority MSM and transgender populations from emerging/recent communities need specific and targeted HIV responses to provide increased networking and knowledge-sharing opportunities among ethnic minority MSM and transgender participants

Room Assignment: Angle Room A Moderator: Andy Spieldenner, Latino Commission on AIDS Speakers: Ibidun Fakoya, University College London Adebisi Ademola Alimi, Migrant African MSM UK Ed Tapporn, Asian Health Forum 9. A Workshop on the WHO Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV and STIs Among MSM and Transgender People This workshop is designed to help advocates, activists, program managers, and health practitioners at the country and regional levels better understand and utilize the WHO Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV and other STIs among MSM and transgender people. Objectives of the workshop are (1) to familiarize participants with the WHO guidelines; (2) to discuss concrete examples of clinical or educational practice where the guidelines can or cannot be applied; and (3) to critically analyze how the guidelines can be integrated with current public and community-based HIV services for MSM and transgender people. Room Assignment: Angle Room C Moderator: Carlos Caceres, University of Lima Speakers: JoAnne Keatley, Center of Excellence for Transgender Health Caitlin Kennedy, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Jeff Klausner, University of California, Los Angeles Ying-ru Jacqueline Lo, World Health Organization rafael Mazin, Pan American Health Organization

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10. Treatment 2.0 The Path to Scale-up This session will focus on recent innovations in the treatment landscape and explore their implications for gay men and other MSM. Well hear from folks working on the front lines and at a global level to ensure that MSM are involved in treatment optimization and scale-up activities. How can communities of gay men be more involved, and what obstacles prevent us from accessing services universally? Room Assignment: Vista Room A Moderator: Ben Plumley, Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation Speakers: Thomas Cai, AIDS Care China Samuel Matsikure, Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe Othoman Mellouk, International Treatment Preparedness Coalition north Africa Morolake Odetoyinbo, Positive Action for Treatment Access 11. Voices From the Field: New and Innovative Research from Africa, Asia, and North America In April 2012, the MSMGF collected over 150 abstracts that were rejected by the International AIDS Conference and conducted an independent review of these abstracts. All high and moderate scoring abstracts from this review are available in a new MSMGF publication titled Missing Voices from the Field. Featured in todays panel are five abstracts that received a full-score in the MSMGF-led review. Titles of abstracts that will be featured in this presentation are listed below: resource needs Estimates, resource Gaps, and Unit Costs of HIV Programs for MSM in Chiang Mai, Thailand using the resource Estimation Tool for Advocacy (rETA) MSM Inadequately Addressed in African AIDS national Strategic Plans A Cross-Sectional Assessment of HIV risks, Access to Services, and Human rights Contexts Among MSM in the Gambia Demographic and HIV-related Discordance Between Transwomen and their Sexual Partners and the Implications for HIV risk among Transwomen in San Francisco A Comparison of HIV infection and related risks Among Men who Have Sex With Men at Different Venues in Shenzhen, China

Room Assignment: Angle Room B Moderator: Barry Adam, University of Windsor Speakers: Suwat Chariyalertsak, Chang Mai University Keletso Makofane, Global Forum on MSM & HIV Krystal Mason, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Erin C Wilson, San Francisco Department of Public Health

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Jin Zhao, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention 12. TabooYardies TabooYardies explores the perception of Jamaica as an island that is saturated with homophobia by providing Jamaicans who are pro, con, and everywhere in between on this highly controversial issue an opportunity to share their own realities. Additionally, the film gives a voice to those Jamaicans who dare to speak up and out about the intolerance and violence toward the LGBT community, particularly as it pertains to an individuals human rights. Room Assignment: Global Theater Presentation: Selena Blake & Associates

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