8A. HIV&AIDS Abstract Session: Social, political & cultural aspects
Tracks
| Tuesday, September 15, 2026 |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
Speaker
Mr Jonathan Weiss
Principal Planner
ACON
2-FUN-1-1: Turning confusion into clarity about on-demand PrEP for GBMSM
Biography
Jonathan Weiss is the Principal Planner for HIV and sexual health campaigns at ACON. He manages Ending HIV and Emen8, leading his team to produce innovative campaigns and content on a range of HIV and sexual health topics.
Dr James MacGibbon
Research Fellow
UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health
Varied and inconsistent HIV discussion practices by men who have sex with men in the biomedical HIV prevention era: A large scale, qualitative content analysis
Biography
Jesse Inglis is a Research Officer at the UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health, with research interests in LGBTQ+ wellbeing, sexuality, and HIV prevention.
Dr Horas Wong
Senior Lecturer
University of Sydney
Avoiding Sex with People Living with HIV despite Understanding U=U: Factors Associated with Sexual Avoidance Attitudes among Multicultural GBMSM in Australia
Biography
Dr Horas Wong is a sexual health nurse, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW. His research focuses on HIV, sexuality, migrant and multicultural health. He is one of the lead investigators of the national GLAAAM+ survey.
Mr Gede Benny Setia Wirawan
PhD Student
Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
“Why should we use PrEP while still using condoms?”: Drivers of high early PrEP discontinuation rates in Indonesia
Biography
Benny Wirawan is a public health researcher at the Kirby Institute UNSW Sydney specialising in HIV prevention and social determinants of health. His work focuses on PrEP adherence, stigma and health behaviours with research experience spanning Australia and Indonesia community-informed approaches methods evidence policy translation and partnerships.
Michael Mcgrath
Research Assistant
Arcshs
Community HIV elimination narratives in health promotion materials
Biography
Michael is working as a research assistant and completing a PhD within an ARC Discovery Grant project on HIV elimination. He has worked as a mixed-methods researcher, consultant and LGBTQI+ inclusion specialist in the international development and humanitarian sector and has led research in Myanmar and Indonesia.
Professor Kane Race
Professor
University Of Sydney
REDUCING STIGMA: where did sexual community go?
Biography
Kane Race is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. He wrote Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The queer politics of drugs (Duke University Press, 2009), The Gay Science: Intimate experiments with HIV (Routledge, 2017), and is currently working on UNDETECTABLE: The molecularization of HIV stigma (Duke UP).