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Programme Update

  • Please remember that Palexpo is a non-smoking facility. Smoking is permitted only in the main entrance lobby.
  • Parents of HIV-positive children are invited to meet at 18:00 today at Office B, near the community village. Contact: Marlene Diaz.

Monday, June 29

Oral Sessions

  • In Session A11, Barbara Felber will speak on Distinct nucleoplasmic transport mechanisms and their role for HIV/SIV propagation.
  • In Session C13, Pinto Costa will present the paper on sex education and HIV/STD prevention for adolescents. Priscilla Mataure will present the paper on baseline evaluation of a school-based peer education programme.
  • In Session D11, Marguerita Lightfoot will present the paper entitled Picking Up the Pieces.
  • In Session B13, Ria Koeck will present the paper on compliance with universal precautions. Patrick Lenzin will present the paper on humour in AIDS care.
  • In Session C14, G.P. Poumerol will present the paper on antibiotic resistance in gonococci in the WHO Western Pacific Region.
  • In Session C15, Peter Young will discuss challenges to the pharmaceutical industry.
  • In Session C16, Hlar Htut Lwin will present the paper on HIV/AIDS prevention among migrant workers in Myanmar.
  • In Session D13, Welzer-Lang will present the paper on men, sex and HIV.
  • In Session B16, Miwa Ishihara will present the paper on bridges from hospital to home.
  • In Session B17, L.K. Wathen will present the paper on interim analysis of plasma viral burden reductions. Stefano Vella will present the paper on a randomised study of ritonavir and indinavir.

The table below also summarizes these changes:

TITLE

PLACE DURATION CHAIR/SPEAKERS
Plenary Session: Prevention Arena 9:00 - 10:30 Makhalemele
Regulation of HIV Replication Hall III 11:00 - 12:30 Felber
Gay Men: Risks and Community Response Hall V 11:00 - 12:30 Hernandez, Juan Jacobo
Dixon, Colin
Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission: Latest Research Hall VI 11:00 - 12:30 Hudson
Prevention Programmes for Youth Satellite 2000 11:00 - 12:30 Pinto Costa
Mataure, Priscilla
End of Life Issues Hall I 11:00 - 12:30 Lightfoot, Marguerita
Chemokines and Receptors II Hall IV 13:00 - 14:30 Camacho, Ricardo
Nursing Care Hall III 13:00 - 14:30 Koeck, Ria
Lenzin, Patrick
Opportunistic Infections Arena 13:00 - 14:30 Egger
Access to STD Diagnosis and Treatment Hall V 13:00 - 14:30 Schachter, Julius
Poumerol
Bridging Session: Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission: Research Into Policy and Practice Hall VI 13:00 - 14:30 Mercier, Eric
Bianco, Mabel
Sociocultural & Behavioural Determinants of HIV Transmission Satellite 2000 13:00 - 14:30 Hlar Htut Lwin
Male Sexuality Hall I 13:00 - 14:30 Jenkins, Carole
Welzer-Lang
Early Events in HIV Cycle Hall IV 15:00 - 17:00 Darbyshire, Janet
Bridging Session: Nursing Care. Building Bridges from Hospital to Home Hall VII 15:00 - 17:00 Ishihara, Miwa
ART I: Clinical Trials Arena 15:00 - 17:00 Wathen
Staszewski
Satasit
Vella
Counselling and Testing Hall V 15:00 - 17:00 Alwano-Edyegu, Mary Grace
Youth & Vulnerability Hall II 15:00 - 17:00 McCauley
Quintana
Cavalheiro
Waldo
Jenkins

 

Community Symposia

  • In Session CS2 at 17:30, Amyen Ramadan will speak in place of Tariq Ramadan. There will be representative of the Jewish faith on the panel.
  • In Session CS3 at 17:30, Bev Greet will discuss the topic of To Work or Not to Work.



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