Conference Updates

"[My] takeaways from the Silver Zone include being kind to oneself, embracing the wisdom that menopause brings, and recognizing that I am enough just as I am," writes Louise Vallace, The Well Project blogger and new community advisory board member, on the ground at AIDS 2024.

The Well Project had a brisk presence at conferences around the US this spring, which included opportunities to present on our program areas, share our materials, and network with partners and other allies and friends.

Read about or watch an impassioned, informative presentation by South Africa-based colleague Natasha Davies, MD, making a powerful case for providers to build trust with parents living with HIV around infant-feeding discussions.

My lovely people, I promised to share my learning from AIDS 2024 in Munich with you. The two days I spent at the Global Village were quite fruitful as an activist.

Helmed by The Well Project’s Bridgette Picou, LVN, ACLPN, The SHE is Women's Conference created a safe space for women living with HIV of all genders, providers, and allies to build community, learn skills, and have fun.

Breast milk is well known to be the best food for most babies – and there is much to learn about this magical substance in the context of HIV. The Well Project's Olivia G. Ford summarizes posters on the topic from CROI 2024.

While there has been progress, meaningfully including community members in the world's largest HIV research gathering remains a challenge. The Well Project's Bridgette Picou, LVN, ACLPN, reports from the ground at CROI 2024.

We could eliminate human papillomavirus with the tools available, sparing millions of lives worldwide; the challenge is implementation. The Well Project's Bridgette Picou, LVN, ACLPN, sums up a talk on this compelling topic from CROI 2024.

Bridgette Picou, LVN, ACLPN, stakeholder liaison for The Well Project, spoke with HIV.gov during the 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) about her key takeaways from the conference.

"[W]omen living with HIV must ask the questions of whether their symptoms are related to menopause? Aging? HIV treatment? Depression? Or something else? I can absolutely relate to this as an aging woman living with HIV, depression, anxiety, and other health conditions."