Bangkok International Symposium on HIV Medicine | 16-18 January 2013

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Wednesday January 16, 2013
07.00-08.00	Registration
08.00-08.30	Opening ceremony Mr. Phan Wannamethee Secretary General, Thai Red Cross Society
08.30-09.00	The second wave of HIV epidemic in Asia: Are We Too Late? Professor Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
09.00-09.30	Getting to Zero: Is it achievable for Asia? Professor Emeritus Praphan Phanuphak, MD, PhD Director of the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre and co-director, HIV-NAT, Bangkok, Thailand
09.30-10.00	Treatment as prevention: No Time to Waste Professor Julio Montaner, MD, FRCPC, FCCP UBC and St. Paul's Hospital Foundation Chair in AIDS ResearchFaculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
10.00-10.30	Break
10.30-11.00	Innovative Approaches to Financing and Sustaining HIV/AIDS Care and Prevention Professor Joep Lange, MD, PhD Head, Department of Global Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam; Executive Scientific Director, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) the Netherlands; Co-director, HIV-NAT, Bangkok, Thailand
11.00-11.30	HIV cure: Fact or fiction? Professor Sharon Lewin, FRACP, PhD Director of the Infectious Diseases Unit at The Alfred Hospital; Department of Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
11.30-12.00	Pediatric and adolescent HIV treatment updates Associate Professor Thanyawee Puthanakit, MD HIV-NAT and Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
12.00-13.30	MSD Thailand Satellite Lunch Symposium
13.30-16.30	WORKSHOP (Interactive e-voting case studies) Meeting room Ballroom: Prevention (e-voting) Moderators: Nittaya Phanuphak Joep Lange Case 1: How best to screen and treat STD as part of HIV prevention package? Chris Beyrer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA Case 2: Am I eligible for non-occupational PEP? Somnuek Sungkanuparph Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand Case 3: Can you prescribe PrEP for me? Suwat Chariyalertsak RIHES, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand Case 4: Should I take ART to keep my partner(s) safe? Julio Montaner Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Case 5: Who will microbicides be for? Frits van Griensven Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF and Johns Hopkins, USA Meeting room 1-2: Difficult to treat populations (e-voting) Moderators: Reshmie Ramautarsing Ploenchan Chetchotsakd Case 1: HIV in prisoners Chureeratana Bowonwatnuwong Chonburi Hospital, Chonburi, Thailand Case 2: Older patients Sasisopin Kiertiburanakul MHS Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand Case 3: The psychiatric patient with HIV Victor Valcour Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, USA Case 4: Second line resistance /Third line treatment Calvin Cohen Community Research Initiative of New England, Boston, USA Case 5: Young MSM Anthony Kelleher Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Program, The Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Meeting room 3-4: Pediatrics/Adolescent (e-voting) Moderators: Wasana Prasitsuebsai Torsak Bunupuradah Chitsanu Pancharoen Case 1: Highlight from 2012 Pediatric HIV meetings Pope Kosalaraksa Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand Case 2: Choice of protease inhibitors in children Thanyawee Puthanakit HIV-NAT and Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Case 3: Unusual OI presentation Nia Kurniati Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia Case 4: HPV co-infection in HIV-infected adolescents Annette Sohn TREAT Asia, amfAR, Bangkok, Thailand Case 5: Behavioral issues in HIV adolescents Rangsima Lolekha PMTCT and Pediatrics Section, Global AIDS Program Thailand/Asia Regional Office, Thailand MOPH-U.S. CDC Collaboration, Nonthaburi, Thailand