Program
The scientific program of the workshop is finalized and can be downloaded.
(see the download link at right side of the webpage)
Invited Speakers are:
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Elaine Abrams: What’s New and Why in WHO Revised PMTCT Guidelines
Elaine Abrams, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH).
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Jintanat Ananworanich: Managing Children with Treatment Failure
Jintanat Ananworanich, MD, PhD , is a pediatric immunologist and Deputy Director of the HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration (HIV-NAT), the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center in Bangkok. Her research interest is in antiretroviral treatment strategies and regimens for children and adults, and in acute HIV infection. ...
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Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka: Innovative Strategies to Improve Adherence in Youth
Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka, MD completed her MB ch B in 1995 and her Masters of Paediatrics and Child health in 2002 from, Makerere University. She did a Fellowship of Infectious Diseases, 2003-2006, supported by the Infectious Diseases Institute/Paediatrics Infectious Diseases Clinic and is currently a Clinical Research Scholar. Since August of 2003, ...
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Brian Eley: TB – Diagnosis, Treatment and Controversies in Pediatric HIV Infection
Brian Eley, MBChB, BSc, FC Paed is a paediatric infectious diseases specialist and head of the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. He is also an associate professor in the School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town. The focus of his clinical work is paediatric HIV infection, ...
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Michael J. Boivin: Neurocognitive Complications of HIV and Its Treatment in Children
Michael J. Boivin, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Professor in the International Neurologic and Psychiatric Epidemiology Program at Michigan State University and an adjunct research investigator with the Neuropsychology Section at the University of Michigan. He has a PHD degree in experimental analysis of behavior from Western Michigan University and ...
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Laura Guay: Operational Research on PMTCT- Lessons Learned and Gaps
Laura Guay MD, serves as vice president for research at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and research professor at The George Washington University (GWU) School of Public Health and Health Services. Dr. Guay is trained in ...
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Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha: PMPCT challenges- In country implementation
Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha MBChB MMed MPH is a medical epidemiologist with specialist training in pediatrics, infectious disease and child health. She is currently Senior HIV Specialist at UNICEF, serving in the East and Southern Africa Region where her main focus is on PMTCT and Paediatric HIV. ...
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George Siberry: Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Pediatric HIV Infection, Controversies
George Siberry MD, MPH is a Medical Officer at the Pediatric Adolescent Maternal AIDS (PAMA) Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland (USA). He develops research studies, ...
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Gareth Tudor-Williams: Management of Adolescent HIV Infection and Transitioning to Adult C
Dr. Gareth Tudor-Williams PhD, FRCPCH, Imperial College, UK, is a Reader in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London and Consultant Paediatrician at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St. Mary’s Hospital, London. His interest in paediatric infectious diseases was sparked ...
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Alessandra Viganò: Metabolic Complications of HIV and Its Treatment in Children
Alessandra Viganò, MD is a paediatric infectious diseases specialist and head of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit at “L. Sacco” Hospital, University of Milan, in Milan (Italy). She is also teaching professor at Milan University, board of Paediatrics. ...
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