Prevention Staff Attend 2025 Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit in Atlanta!

From April 10 – 12, 2025, BCAP’s Prevention Staff attended the 9th Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit (BHPS) hosted in Atlanta, Georgia by NMAC (formerly known as the National Minority AIDS Council). The team enjoyed a weekend of information sharing, networking, and learning about the newest biomedical advancements in the field of HIV Treatment and Prevention. The theme of this year’s summit was “Innovation and Futurism to End the HIV Epidemic” and focused on innovation and action through data-driven, evidence-based approaches and new digital technologies.

Summit Goals:

1. To foster dialog about community, scientific, and technological innovations, their implementation, and how they facilitate access to PrEP and HIV Treatment.

2. To think creatively about the significance of data and how to use it to integrate innovation and technology into HIV diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and care.

3. To develop collaborative efforts to build capacity among communities that can benefit from these innovations and their service and care providers.

4. To explore the significance of best practices and evidence-based programs that use technological innovation to address health disparities and social determinants of health.

Summit Overview:

This year’s summit featured eight different informational tracks that allowed attendees to experience a unique breadth and depth of topics related to innovation in this field.

Track 1: Antiretroviral Therapy Improvements and Long Acting Treatment Preparedness

Track 2: Health Equity, Cultural Relevance, Community Health Workers, Peer Navigators, Mobile and Digital Health Technologies

Track 3: Access to Care, Diagnostics, Remote Monitoring, Integrated Health Services, and Digital Health Tools

Track 4: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Long Acting and Injectables, Oral Formulations, ARVs for Anal Douche and Vaginal Ring

Track 5: Tackling Syndemics through New Technologies

Track 6: Artificial Intelligence(AI), Wearables, and Personalized Medicine

Track 7: HIV Policy Innovations and Health Equity

Track 8: Ending the HIV Epidemic: Shaping the Future Through Innovation and Futurism

BCAP’s Prevention Staff had the opportunity to attend workshops across all of these different topics areas including workshops like, “How a Novel Telehealth HIV Program Reached Marginalized Patient Populations,” “Unlocking Equitable Access to HIV Prevention Services through Community Pharmacies,” “HIV Reimagined Along the U.S. Mexico Border,” “Expanding U=U Through Digital Innovation: The Launch of U=U University” and more! BCAP’s Prevention Team feels so fortunate to have been able to attend this Summit and share space, ideas, and community with so many incredible people doing this work throughout the U.S.!