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2B. HIV&AIDS Abstract Session: Epidemiology, prevention & public health: Increasing testing and prevention

Tracks
Track 2
Monday, September 15, 2025
11:05 AM - 12:35 PM

Speaker

Miss Zara Boulton
National Project Officer
Thorne Harbour Health

CONNECTing communities to rapid HIV self-testing kits through vending machines: An Australian roll-out

Biography

Zara Boulton is the National Project Officer at Thorne Harbour Health. Utilising her decade of experience in LGBTIQA+ public health research, public speaking, and advocacy, Zara is responsible for delivering the largest HIV rapid-self-testing vending machine globally. This project, known as CONNECT, will be implemented nationally across all Australian jurisdictions.
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Ms Ying Zhang
PhD candidate
Monash University

Preferences of men who have sex with men towards the distribution of HIV self-test kits through social networks: A discrete choice experiment

Biography

Ying is a PhD candidate at Monash University, Australia. Her PhD is on novel diagnostics for the control of HIV and STIs, with a particular focus on HIV self-testing among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.
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A/prof Nick Scott
Head, Modelling & Biostatistics
Burnet Institute

Optimising annual investment in mixed HIV testing strategies in Australia to advance virtual elimination of HIV by 2030: an allocative efficiency analysis

Biography

Associate Professor Nick Scott is the Head of Modelling and Biostatistics at the Burnet Institute. His team uses modelling to determine how investment in HIV interventions can be optimally allocated to achieve the greatest impact.
Associate Professor Iryna Zablotska-Manos
Associate Professor, Program Director
Sydney Medical School, University Of Sydney

ADAPTPREP STUDY: WHY DO PREP USERS WHO OPTED FOR PREP FOLLOW-UP AT GPS KEEP RETURNING TO WESTERN SYDNEY SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE?

Biography

A/Prof Iryna Zablotska-Manos, Director of the Postgraduate Program in Sexual and Reproductive Health at the University of Sydney, leads PrEP research at Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre. With over 25 years in HIV epidemiology and prevention, she heads the ADAPTPrEP study, including a cohort of PrEP users under GP care.
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Mr Tyson Arapali
Senior Project Officer
Kirby Institute

The power of peers: evaluating the effectiveness of peer-led HIV and sexual health education workshops for gay, bisexual, queer, and other men who have sex with men

Biography

Tyson Arapali is a Senior Project Officer based at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney. His work focuses on the determinants of PrEP use and how they can inform the development of innovative programs to increase PrEP uptake and retention.
Ms Karina Reeves

‘Even Me?’: Reframing HIV prevention for WA’s diverse communities

Biography

Karina is an IUHPE Registered Health Promotion Practitioner and is Coordinator of Health Promotion at WAAC (formerly the WA AIDS Council). Karina holds a BSc in Health Promotion, is Vice President of the WA branch of the Australian Health Promotion Association and committee member of the Bloom-RSE Advocacy Group.
Mr Anik Ray
Clinical Nurse Consultant 3
Sydney Sexual Health Centre

Community-based setting reaches more people who are testing & PrEP-naïve than clinic-based setting among recently arrived overseas born people at-risk of HIV in Sydney, New South Wales

Biography

Anik is a clinical nurse consultant at Sydney Seuxal Health Centre with a keen interest in health care IT systems, innovation, and research.
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