Telemedicine is a collection of means or methods for enhancing health care, public health and health education delivery and support using telecommunications technologies. With more than 95% of adults, and 100% of young adults between the age of 18-29 owning a cell phone in the United States, a technology-based health intervention can be available to hard-to-reach populations or underserved areas. Panelists will engage a rich dialogue and showcase innovative and effective ways to create prevention programs for HIV and STDs using the potential telehealth can offer, specifically with linking young people to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. This plenary brings together leaders in the field of HIV prevention, research and policy along with private organizations and companies that are currently active on the field of biomedical prevention.

1. Using telehealth to accelerate
biomedical HIV prevention
Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
Department of Epidemiology
University of California, Los Angeles

2. TKSL

3. New HIV Diagnoses, US, 2016

4. New HIV Diagnoses in the
United States by Age, 2016

5. Current HIV control strategy
Testing
Treatment Prevention

7. Must capitalize on newer
applications of information
communication technology

8. October 1999

9. CDC, MMWR 2000
JAMA, 2000

11. JAMA, 2005

13. HIV self-testing via vending machines

14. 14
July 2014

15. 15
Social media promotion of HIV self-testing

16. 16
667 HIV self-tests delivered: 38 vending, 182 vouchers, 447 mail
Of 159 surveyed, 6 (3.8%) new HIV+ and 100% linked to care

18. Telehealth
• Use of electronic information and
telecommunications technologies to
support and promote long-distance clinical
health care, patient and professional
health-related education, public health and
health administration
HRSA, 2017

20. PrEPTechYTH.org

22. PlushCare.com

23. Policy and Regulatory Issues
Followed by Panel Discussion