Virtual Daily: 

On the opening day of conference, Monday 6 July, m2m Spokeswoman and M&E Officer, Limpho Nteko from Lesotho, will be featured on Virtual DAILY, a 15-minute show with high-profile guests and community members from around the world. Limpho’s segment will break down stereotypes and misinformation about people living with and affected by HIV. (Update: This segment has now been posted on Youtube here. Scroll forward to 15 mins in to see Limpho in action)

Poster Sessions: 

We are presenting eight posters at AIDS2020, which will be available along with oral presentations to conference throughout the week.  They include:

Sustaining treatment adherence and viral suppression among HIV-positive
women through a robust peer approach. Lead Author: Nakululombe Kwendeni (Read the poster)

The role of peer lay health workers programmes and innovative scalable quality improvement solutions to improve final HIV diagnostic test uptake among HIV-exposed infants. Lead Author: Fiona Burtt (Read the poster)

The effect of peer support and integrated service delivery in retention in care of PMTCT clients. Lead Author: Ann Marjorie.N. Mbule (Read the poster)

Multi-country review on final outcome in eMTCT in m2m countries. Lead Author: Clare Hofmeyr (Read the poster)

Experiences of Mentor Mothers to Integrated ECD components into PMTCT programme in high burden sites. Lead Author: Tendai Mayuni (Read the poster)

Experiences in Linkage and Retention Services among People Living with HIV using Expert Clients in Malawi. Lead Author: Victor Singano  (Read the poster)

Facilitating HIV Retesting among Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women: A Multi-country Analysis from 2016 -2018. Lead Author: Jude Igumbor (Read the poster)

Factors associated with self-reported adherence amongst HIV-positive pregnant and breastfeeding women in an HIV peer support program: A multi-country, multi-level analysis. Lead Author: Jude Igumbor (Read the poster)

Virtual Booth:

We have a booth in the virtual exhibition hall. If you are attending the conference, we hope you will “stop by,” find out more about our work, and say “hello.”

6th HIV-Exposed Uninfected Child and Adolescent Workshop: 

m2m’s AIDS2020 activities actually kicked off last week, when m2m Spokeswoman and District Coordinator, Colile Mashaba from Mpumlanga, South Africa, participated in this pre-conference event on Wednesday, 1 July. Colilie shared her story about disclosing her HIV status to one of her sons, and participated in a panel moderated by Laurie Ackerman Gulaid, UNICEF’s Regional HIV Advisor for Eastern and Southern Africa.

Keep an eye on our website and social media feeds for more news from AIDS2020.