18th ICASA | 29 NOV - 4 DEC 2024 | HARARE | ZIMBABWE
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AIDS AND STIs IN AFRICA
Title: Making sex safer, making sex better – innovative HIV prevention by and for young people
Bidia Deperthes is a Senior Technical Advisor at the United Nations Population Fund, where she leads the Comprehensive Condom Programming Framework and 10-Step Approach to increase access and use of male and female condoms. This approach is currently being implemented in 87 countries. She previously worked at the World Health Organization leading the global research agenda on condoms.
Ms. Deperthes is also the Team Leader of CONDOMIZE!, a campaign of UNFPA and The Condom project to prevent HIV. Ms. Deperthes is a co-author of several publications, public speaker, and has appeared widely in the media. Visit her at www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Bidia/Deperthes
