Interactive Program Guide
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7.30-8.00

 Registration

8.00-8.30

 Opening Ceremony

 8.30-9.00
75 countries have signed on to the Clinton Foundation ARV procurement program. This presentation will review current regimens used in low and middle income countries and how presribing will change in the next five years

 Global ARV Forecasting and access to affordable ARV [ Download ]

 Dai Ellis
 Dai Ellis serves as Director of the Drug Access Team at the Clinton Foundation
 HIV/AIDS Initiative, where he leads the Foundation’s work on reducing the prices
 and expanding the availability of antiretroviral drugs.

9.00-9.30
d4T and AZT remain the backbone of most first line regimens in low and middle income countries but the increasing availabilty of thymidine analogues such as tenofovir are changing the landscape

 First-Line Antiretroviral Therapy : Weighing New Evidence [ Download ]

 Andrew Hill
 Dr Andrew Hill is a visiting Senior Research Fellow at Liverpool University in the
 UK, specializing in clinical trial design, pharmacology and economics

9.30-10.00
A boosted protease inhibitor is the key to viral suppression following first line NNRTI-based failure. Which PI to choose and how best to construct a second line regimen around the PI?

 Second line Antiretroviral Therapy
 Approaches to the NRTI and PI components of 2nd Line ART regimens in low
 and middle income countries
[ Download ]

 Jens Lundgren
 Jens Lundgren heads the Copenhagen HIV Programme (CHIP) University of
 Copenhagen, Denmark;. He is the project leader for EuroSIDA

BREAK

10.30 -11.00
Two new NNRTIs and several new PIs have demonstrated safety and efficacy in patients with previous treatment failure. How will these new drugs be used in our region?

 New NRTIs and New PIs are becoming available. How will they fit into
 clinical care?
[ Download ]

 Jonathan Sapiro
 Director, AIDS Service, National Hemophilia Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel .
 Clinical Assistant Professor Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford,
 California

11.00-11.30
Maraviroc is approved by the US FDA. The first of the integrase inhibitors, Raltegravir, is already available in expanded access programs in Thailand. New NNRTIs and PIs are on the way. Understand how these new drugs work and how they will be used.

 New Classes of Antiretrovirals: The Role of Integrase and Entry Inhibitors
[ Download ]

 David Cooper
 Scientia Professor of Medicine, the University of New South Wales, Director of the
 Australian National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research and a
 co-director of HIV-NAT

 11.30-12.00
Following the results of the SMART study, there is renewed  interest and debate about the timing of initiation of ART. Prof Cooper will review the data and discuss the relevance to both developed amd low/middle income countries

 Pros and cons of early ARV therapy [ Download ]

 Sean Emery
 Associate Professor and  Head of the Therapeutic and Vaccine Research Program ;
 National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Sydney, Australia

Satellite Lunchtime Symposium by IDS Marketing Ltd. 12.00-13.30 [ Download ]

WORKSHOPS
Our speakers will present cases and you vote on management with audience response key pads
Interactive case challenges
Interested in starting clinical research in your institution. Hear how it is done by our panel of world-renowned researchers
New researcher forum
GLP and QA/QC. Setting up resistance testing in your lab and more...
Laboratory workshop
 
     
 
 
 
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