Program
Invited Speakers
C. Toure Kane: HIV epidemiology update
K. Torpey: The ART scale-up in Africa
J. McElrath: HIV-vaccines: state-of-the-art
T. Mastro: Pre-exposure prophylaxis
A. Saade: Female sex workers
E. Stringer: Women and HIV
G. Parham: HPV vaccination in Africa
T. Gaolathe: Should Africa start to think beyond single-dose evirapine in view of the current treatment scale?
G. Ferrari: Flow cytometry in HIV research
A. Hesseling: HIV/TB in children
R. Koup: The impact of HIV on immune control of TB
B. Dittrich: MSM & human rights
C. Derdeyn: HIV transmission
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E. Katabira: What are the future ART options Africa will need (1st, 2nd, 3rd line)?
Elly T Katabira, MD, FRCP, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, faculty of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Dr. Katabira received his medical degree at Makerere and went on to specialize in Neurology in England. However, he has been working in the field of HIV as a clinician, an educator and a researcher since 1985. He started the first AIDS clinic in Africa in 1987 and has worked with a number of organizations including ...
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H. Rees: Adolescents and HIV
Professor Helen Rees is the Executive Director of the Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit (RHRU), the largest research unit of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Prof Rees received her Medical Degree and her Masters in Social and Political ...
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S. Rowland-Jones: What we can learn from HIV-2 about protective immunity in HIV infection
Sarah Rowland-Jones qualified in medicine from Cambridge and Oxford Universities, and trained in Infectious Diseases in London and Oxford. Her research career began in Oxford with a doctorate supervised by Professor Andrew McMichael on the role of cellular immune responses to viral infections, focusing on the T-cell response to HIV-1 infection and how viral evolution ...
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J. Stringer: Operational research
Jeff Stringer is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ). A native Mississippian, Stringer received his medical degree from Columbia University in 1995, and ...
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J. Walson: HIV and helminth treatment in HIV infection
Judd L. Walson, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Global Health, Medicine, and Pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA and a Visiting Scientist at the Centre for Clinical Research at the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya. He received his medical degree and Master’s Degree in Public Health from Tufts University School of Medicine ...
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