Day 1 - Tuesday, 5 May 2015
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5 May 2015 - 8 May 2015
Location
Harare,
Zimbabwe
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INTEREST 2015
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Round table: Lessons learned from Ebola for HIV and vice versa -
Peter Kilmarx, MD, FACP, FIDSA
Peter Kilmarx, MD, FACP, FIDSA
Responding to an epidemic: perspective from Sierra Leone and Guinea
John E. Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA
Responding to an epidemic: perspective from Liberia
Brian Hunter
Zimbabwe
Vaccine and drugs pipeline and trials; passive immunization (convalescent serum) and regulatory issues
John E. Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA
Symposium: AbbVie - Managing HIV in Resource Limited Settings - Growing the Momentum -
Viral load monitoring in RLS: Challenges and lessons; a South African perspective
Francesca Conradie, MBChB (Wits), DTM&H, Dip HIV Man, Dip Epidemiology (LSTMH)
South African Clinicians HIV/AIDS Society, South Africa
Acquired drug resistance in RLS: Causes, patterns and implications
Second-line therapies in RLS: Choices and evidence
Session: Prevention of mother-to child transmission (PMTCT) -
Progress and challenges in PMTCT: the unfinished agenda
Satellite Symposium Gilead Sciences Inc. - Debate: Resolved that the Continent of Africa is not yet ready to treat Hepatitis C - State of the Art on Hepatitis -
Mark Nelson, MA, MBBS, FRCP
Mark Nelson, MA, MBBS, FRCP
Kwasi Torpey, MD, PhD, MPH, FGCP, FWACP
State of the art on hepatitis C
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital / Imperial College Medical School, United Kingdom
Team affirming the motion
Tapiwanashe Kujinga
Zimbabwe
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital / Imperial College Medical School, United Kingdom
Team opposing the motion
University of Ghana / Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Ghana / Netherlands
Theobald Owusu-Ansah
Ghana
Official Opening Session -
James Hakim, MBChB, MMed, FRCP, FCP, DSc(HC)
Official opening
Panel Discussion: Remembering Joep Lange and Jacqueline van Tongeren
University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences (UZCHS), Zimbabwe
Douglas Richman, MD
University of California, San Diego, USA
Pauline Byakika, MSc, PhD
Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda
Moving forward: Building on the legacy
Nicole Spieker, PhD
PharmAccess Foundation, the Netherlands
Day 2 -Wednesday, 6 May 2015
Session: HIV prevention, structural determinants, PrEP -
Female-initiated HIV Prevention Methods: Past, Present and Future
Refreshment break and poster viewing
Sponsor Satellite III: Janssen Pharmaceutica NV “I Am Who I Am” – Teens living with HIV -
Rashida Ferrand, FRCP, PhD, FMed Sci
A Teen’s Story – Living with HIV
A Teen’s Story – Living with HIV
Zimbabwe
Panel Discussion: Support Strategies for Adolescents – What Works?
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom / Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Zimbabwe
Bahati Kasimonje
Zimbabwe
Managing ART in Adolescents in 2nd and 3rd Line
Tariro Makadzange
Gilead Sciences
Margie Pascoe
Margie Pascoe
Zimbabwe
Session: STI update and new WHO post-exposure prophylaxis guidelines -
Implementing the new WHO post-exposure prophylaxis guidelines
Poster Presentations -
Evaluation of the Sysmex-Partec CyFlow® mini-POC against the reference CD4/PLG method in South Africa
Keshendree Moodley
South Africa
Improving PMTCT services through a participatory Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) approach in Nyanza region of Western Kenya
Debate: PrEP is ready for prime time in Africa -
Linda-Gail Bekker, MBChB, DTMH, DCH, FCP(SA), PhD
Team affirming the motion
Sinzo Peter
South Africa
Desmond Tutu Health Foundation / University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
Team opposing the motion
Day 3 - Thursday, 7 May 2015
Session: Paediatrics and cure -
Rashida Ferrand, FRCP, PhD, FMed Sci
Paediatrics HIV disease
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom / Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Zimbabwe
Reservoirs and HIV Cure in Adults and Children: Insights and Challenges
Caroline Tiemessen
National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Oral abstracts -
Retention and long-term virologic outcomes in children and adolescents receiving HIV/ART care at a public sector tertiary level hospital in Zimbabwe
Early Infant Diagnosis Data Transmission System Using Mobile Phones in Zimbabwe
Delays in initiation of antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected children in rural Zambia
Day 4 - Friday, 8 May 2015
Session: HIVDR in the upcoming fight against antimicrobial resistance -
Principles and reality of HIV drug resistance in sub-Saharan Africa
Sponsor Satellite IV: ViiV ART in 2015- have we achieved our goals? Understanding the need to improve 1st and 2nd line treatment going forward -
Approach to management of HIV – understanding the unmet medical needs with our current use of antiretroviral drugs
Has the current management of HIV reached a plateau or can we go further?
Reflections by the Conference Chairs of the 9th INTEREST Workshop
Overview
Welcome
A very successful 9th INTEREST Workshop, was held in Harare, Zimbabwe 5-8 May 2015, where 472 participants attended the workshop.
The Organizing Committee would like to thank all invited speakers and participants for their contribution to this workshop!
We would like to thank our sponsors AbbVie, Gilead, Janssen, ViiV / GSK, Mylan and MSD for making this event possible.
The INTEREST workshop focuses on issues of particular relevance for the African continent and offers young researchers the opportunity to present their data. The workshop size and atmosphere facilitate discussion and interaction between participants. 9 successful meetings have been convened since INTEREST's inception; in Uganda, Senegal (twice), Zambia (twice), Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe.
The format of the workshop is a 3.5 day program consisting of plenary sessions on HIV prevention and treatment presented by renowned invited speakers, oral abstract presentations, roundtable discussions and poster sessions. Ample time is allocated to Q&A and discussion in order to foster an intimate and interactive workshop.
INTEREST workshop is a collaboration of Virology Education and AIGHD.
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