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BHIVA Spring Conference 2023 - Scholarships and Awards

The BHIVA Margaret Johnson Best Oral Research Presentation Award

This prize was awarded to the presenter of the best oral research presentation during the conference. To be eligible for this prize the presenter had to be of junior grade (sub-consultant or equivalent).

Winner:

O11 Diabetes and hypertensive disorders in pregnant women living with HIV in the UK and Ireland
Laurette Bukasa, Integrated Screening Outcomes Surveillance Service (ISOSS), UK



The BHIVA Ian Williams Best Poster Award

This prize was awarded to the presenter of the best poster research presentation during the conference. To be eligible for this prize the presenter must be of junior grade (sub-consultant or equivalent).

Winner:

TP02 Opportunities to improve opt-out blood-borne virus screening in two large London Emergency Departments
Cassandra Fairhead, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, UK



Dr Clare van Halsema and Dr Cassandra Fairhead

Left to right: Dr Clare van Halsema and Dr Cassandra Fairhead


The BHIVA Chloe Orkin Award for Best Presentation in the field of social sciences

This prize was awarded to the presenter of the best oral or poster research presentation during the conference in the field of social sciences.

Winner:

O09 “If you don’t know, how can you know?”: A qualitative investigation of HIV Pre-exposure prophylaxis knowledge and perceptions among women in England
Melissa Cabecinha, University College London, UK



The BHIVA Martin Fisher Award for Best Presentation in the field of community-based work

This prize was awarded to the presenter of the best oral or poster research presentation during the conference in the field of community-based work.

Winner:

P095 Towards positive practice - people living with HIV and experiences of primary care
Joshua Wharton, George House Trust, Manchester, UK



Dr Nicola Mackie and Joshua Wharton

Left to right: Dr Nicola Mackie and Joshua Wharton


Commended Oral Presentations

Three awards were presented in recognition of the best oral research presentations during the conference. To be eligible for these prizes the presenter must be of junior grade (sub-consultant or equivalent).

Winners:

O06 'Not PrEPared' – Barriers to accessing PrEP in England
Adam Freedman, National AIDS Trust, UK

O07 HIV care during the SARSCOV-2 pandemic in black people with HIV in the UK
Zoe Ottaway, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK

O15 High-risk HPV prevalence and serostatus in women living with perinatally acquired HIV (the SHiP study)
Tamara Elliott, Imperial College London, UK



Professor Caroline Sabin and Adam Freedman

Left to right: Professor Caroline Sabin and Adam Freedman

Professor Caroline Sabin and Dr Zoe Ottaway

Left to right: Professor Caroline Sabin and Dr Zoe Ottaway


BHIVA Commended Poster Presentations

16 highly commended posters from 138 poster presentations displayed.

No.

Title

Name

TP01

Blueteq is not just about cost, it’s an opportunity to optimise antiretroviral therapy

Sinead Peare

P008

A retrospective review to identify acceptability of doravirine containing regimens in our single centre cohort of people with HIV (PWH)

Gavin Marshall

P009

Switching to Biktarvy®: real world single centre outcomes over 3 years

Lisa King

P020

Rapid HIV progression in patients with increased prevalence of unstable HLA-C variants

Alessandra Ruggiero

P026

Missed opportunities for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and outcomes of people acquiring HIV with previous or recent PrEP use

Stephanie Tyler

P028

Current PrEP provision does not align with women’s preferences: Early results from a cross-sectional survey investigating PrEP awareness, interest, and preferences among women in England

Melissa Cabecinha

P036

Setting the research agenda: involving mothers living with HIV in research on children born HIV-free in the UK

Laurette Bukasa

P050

Cerebrospinal fluid HIV RNA and viral nucleic acid detection in persons with HIV

Manraj Bawa

P053

Associations between inflammatory profiles and multimorbidity burden among people living with HIV

Caroline Sabin

P058

Co-morbidities in people living with HIV in the North-East who are unvaccinated against COVID-19: a descriptive study

Ben Sayer

P063

Sight-threatening mpox in people living with well-controlled and advanced HIV: two case reports of mpox blepharokeratoconjunctivitis with prolonged viral shedding

Tatiana Bovill Rose

P075

An audit of new diagnoses of HIV in a deprived local authority – are we detecting HIV too late?

Chevonne van Rhee

P113

Knowledge of HIV and attitudes towards people living with HIV amongst hospital healthcare workers

Linda Cheyenne Vaccari

P115

Examining HPV related cancer screening and vaccination rates amongst women in a large HIV service

Chloe White

P121

A three-cycle quality improvement project to improve HIV testing for patients presenting with indicator conditions to acute medicine in Gateshead, UK

Alexander Martin

P127

Cost-effectiveness of switching antiretroviral therapy to British HIV Association recommended regimens

Aidan Ireland



BHIVA Commended Poster Presentations 2023

Above: BHIVA Commended Poster Presentation Winners


Clinico-pathological case presentations

This prize was awarded to the presenter of the best case presentation as part of the BHIVA Lunchtime Clinico-pathological case presentations sessions.

Winner:

The hard cell: difficult diagnostics in a complex case
Meredith Moodie, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust