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The HIV Prevention Trials Network is a worldwide collaborative clinical trials network that develops and tests the safety and efficacy of interventions designed to prevent the transmission of HIV.

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The HPTN strives to evaluate and implement cutting-edge biomedical, behavioral, and structural interventions to reduce the transmission of HIV.

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The HPTN has more than 50 ongoing or completed clinical trials in 14 countries at more than 60 research sites.

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The HPTN strives to evaluate and implement cutting-edge biomedical, behavioral, and structural interventions to reduce the transmission of HIV.

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Community participation in decision-making ensures that research participants and the community feel ownership of the research and have an interest in its success.

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HPTN at Virtual HIV R4P 2021

January 20, 2021

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HPTN Accepting Research Concepts

January 12, 2021

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HPTN 084 Study Demonstrates Superiority of Injectable Cabotegravir

November 9, 2020

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Network Member Spotlight

Ariane van der Straten

What has surprised you most about working in HIV prevention research?
My proudest moment as a member of the HPTN is right now. During the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, the HPTN site staff strives to ensure participants' safety, share information on how to stay safe and provide tools to their local community. The resilience, creativity, bravery and grit of colleagues throughout the world are heroic.

Ariane van der Straten

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HPTN Scholars Program

The HPTN Scholars Program seeks to provide scholar recipients with the knowledge, skills and connections to further their careers as independent investigators in the HIV prevention research field.

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Featured Scholar

Rogers Sekabira, BPharm, MHSR, MP

PK-PD Relationship of Antiretroviral drugs dosed for PrEP in Ex-vivo HIV-1 infection (HPTN 069)

Location: Uganda-Baylor CRS Mentor(s): Craig Hendrix

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Featured Scholar

Anita Marais, MBChB, MSc, Dip.HIV(Man)

Identifying predictive factors for condom use in MSM and TGW in sub-Saharan Africa: Results from HPTN075

Location: Wits PHRU Mentor(s): Theo Sandfort and Ravindre Panchia

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Featured Scholar

Rodman Turpin, PhD, MS

External and Internalized Homophobia Mediates Sexual Identity and Sexual Risk Behavior among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (HPTN 061)

Location: University of Maryland, College Park Mentor(s) Typhanye Penniman-Dyer (primary) and Ken Mayer

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Featured Scholar

S. Raquel Ramos, PhD, MBA, MSN, FNP-BC

Characteristics of Client Centered Care Coordination between Black MSM PrEP Users and Non-Users in HPTN 073: An Analysis of Perceived Autonomy Support and Care

Location: NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing Mentor(s): LaRon Nelson

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Featured Scholar

Elzette Rousseau-Jemwa

The role of agency in young African women’s adherence to PrEP (in HPTN 067)

Location: Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Mentor(s): Linda-Gail Bekker and Rivet Amico

Featured Scholar

Derek Dangerfield II

Underlying sexual risk and PrEP use patterns among BMSM in the HPTN 073 Study

Location: JHU School of Nursing Mentor(s): Irene Kuo

Featured Scholar

Noelle M. St. Vil

An Exploration of the Social Determinants of Violence Against Women At-Risk of HIV

Location: University of Buffalo Mentor(s): Danielle Haley Gina Wingood

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Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha

Examining the role of social support in PrEP uptake and utilization for young African women: implications for HIV prevention

Location: Tufts University Mentor(s): Audrey Pettifor

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Donaldson F. Conserve

Assessment of Case Manager Intervention Dosage Impact on Viral Suppression among MSM: A Mixed Method Study

Location: George Washington University Mentor(s): Chris Beyer

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Adedotun Ogunbajo

Intimate Partner Violence, Social Support, and Substance Use among Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) in the United States

Location: Harvard University Mentor(s): Kenneth Mayer

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Manuela Bullo

Alcohol Use and HIV-HSV2 Incidence in Female Adolescents in Rural South Africa

Location: Ramos Mejia Hospital Mentor(s): Audrey Pettifor

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Nomtha Bell-Mandla

Determinants strategies and cost implications for participant recruitment, and retention in an HIV cohort, perspectives from HPTN 071 (PopART)

Location: Stellenbosch University Faculty of Health Sciences Mentor(s): Peter Bond, Lungiswa Nkonki, Ayana Moore

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Bwalya Chiti

Thinking on their feet: Lessons learnt from the role, identity and experiences of community-based HIV service providers in delivering Universal Test and Treat within the (PopART) trial in Zambia and South Africa

Mentor(s): Virginia Bond, Musonda Simwinga