Conference: Priorities in Aids Care and Treatment (PACT)

Presentations

Session 1 - Opening session

• Welcome and introduction, James McIntyre [pdf: 1.66mb]
• The state of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, Salim Abdool Karim [pdf: 0.99mb]
• Successes and challenges in the government’s HIV and AIDS programme, Nomonde Xundu [pdf: 22.4kb]
• Cape Town's response to HIV/AIDS, Ivan Toms

Session 2 - Overview of HIV and Aids care and treatment

• Antiretroviral treatment: lessons from Africa, Paula Munderi [pdf: 502kb]
• Child health and survival in South Africa, Greg Hussey [pdf: 1.15mb]
• People living with HIV/Aids, research and treatment advocacy: lessons learned, Gregg Gonsalves
• Integrating research into implementation programmes: better together than disconnected? Chip Schooley [pdf: 6.76mb]

Session 3 - What's new? Report back from Toronto

• Clinical science, James McIntyre [pdf: 1.56mb]
• HIV prevention, Precious Modiba [pdf: 237kb]
• HIV care experiences, Susan Kekana [pdf: 1.78mb]

Session 4 - Modern art: advances in antiretroviral treatment

• Structured treatment interruptions: the end of an era? Connie Benson [pdf: 346kb]
• Conservation of first line treatment regimens where treatment options are limited, Catherine Orrell [pdf: 142kb]
• ART, Adherence and Africans, Jean Nachega [pdf: 1.26mb]
• Stigma and discrimination and ART, Glenda Gray [pdf: 386kb]

Session 5 - Supporting children and adolescents

• HIV prevention strategies for adolescents, Linda Gail Bekker [pdf: 2.34mb]
• Supporting adolescents in care, Michelle Williams and Flora Thobela [pdf: 1.88mb]
• Promoting adherence in children, Ray Lazarus [pdf: 176kb]
• Identifying and managing pain in children, Rene Albertyn [pdf: 2.62mb]

Session 6 and 7- “Face the firing squad” panel discussion: treatment

• Moderators: Francois Venter and Jennifer Pitt
• Panellists include: Francesca Conradie, Paul Wilcox, Lewis Ndlovu; Jean Nachega, Robert Schooley, Fatima Hassan

Session 8 - PMTCT and paediatrics

• PMTCT – past successes and future directions, Marie Louise Newell [pdf: 1.29mb]
• Optimising identification of infected children, Karl Technau [pdf: 158kb]
• Caring for very young HIV infected children, Mark Cotton [pdf: 435kb]
• Challenges in paediatric management, Rikash Jokhan [pdf: 524kb]

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• Involving men in prevention and getting them into care, Dean Peacock
• Is circumcision the answer? Neil Martinson [pdf: 728kb]
• HIV services for MSM , Tim Lane [pdf: 367kb]

Session 10 - Adult treatment challenges

• TB and ART, Robin Wood [pdf: 519kb]
• IRIS, Graeme Meintjies [pdf: 1.89kb]
• Hyperlactataemia, Gail Ashford [pdf: 685kb]

Session 11 - Prevention and care for vulnerable groups

• Drug users, Charles Parry [pdf: 470kb]
• Discordant couples, Ntombi Bandezi [pdf: 1.1mb]
• Prisoners, Jonathan Berger [pdf: 284kb]

• Women, HIV and treatment, James McIntyre [pdf: 1.98mb]
• Addressing the reproductive choices and reproductive heath needs of HIV positive women, Diane Cooper [pdf: 205kb]
• Older women and HIV, Carol Thomas [pdf: 1.46mb]
• Cervical pathology and HIV, Yasmin Adam [pdf: 240kb]

Session 13 - Prevention and care challenges

• Challenges in reaching rural populations, Margie Hardman [pdf: 7.6mb]
• Challenges in workplace HIV programmes, Kenny Moodley [pdf: 315kb]
• Involving communities, Matsontso Mathebula [pdf: 741kb]
• Have we forgotten about sex? Glenn Mabuza [pdf: 377kb]

Session 14 - Poster viewing

Session 15 - Clinical management issues: panel

• Oral pathology and HIV, Sudeshni Naidoo [pdf: 4.17mb]
• Dermatology and HIV, Anisa Mosam [pdf: 8.36mb]
• Haematological conditions, Glenda Gray [pdf: 903kb]

• Arekitsetse Le Bana, Thulani Makhoba [pdf: 1.22mb]
• Supporting home based care the HIVSA/JandJ programme in Soweto and East London, Elaine Chakela [pdf: 761kb]
• Caring for care-givers, Tumi Tshabalala [pdf: 541kb]
• Integrated home based Care (ICHC), Rene Bursey [pdf: 561kb]

Session 17 - Lessons from successful treatment programmes: panel

• Absolute Return for Kids - ARK, Ashraf Grimwood [pdf: 6.85mb]
• Helen Joseph Hospital, Dennis Rubel [pdf: 94.5kb]
• Tintswalo Hospital, Mosa Moshabela [pdf: 490kb]
• Red Cross Children’s Hospital, James Nuttall [pdf: 4.57mb]

Session 18 - Back to the future

• Introduction, James McIntyre [pdf: 910kb]
• Looking forward: treatment, Francois Venter [pdf: 2.78mb]
• Looking forward: prevention, Tom Coates [pdf: 581kb]
• Closing, Glenda Gray

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