PROGRAM

IVHEM will feature an exceptional program including sessions on:
1. Monitoring: Finding the missing millions - HBV
2. Monitoring: Finding the missing millions - HCV
3. Linkage to Care: how can we keep patients in the care continuum?
4. Strategic information
5. Integrated approaches - collaboration between the various stakeholders to optimize the use of resources

Each session will start with an introductory talk given by the chair(s), followed by best practice talks from representatives of selected countries. Additionally, the program will include short talks of selected abstracts and several round table discussions on controverse topics

Introduction by Chair

Day 1
12:00	Welcome Lunch
13:00	Welcome and opening
Opening Session Chair: Magaret Hellard and Jordan Feld
13:05	Keynote: The elimination movement John Ward, MD U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, USA
13:25	WHO - update on the performance indicator Yvan Hutin, MD, PhD (tbc) World Health Organization, Switzerland
13:45	The economic barriers preventing elimination – the importance of an investment Margaret Hellard, MBBS, FRACP, FAFPHM, PhD Burnet Institute, Australia
14:05	Coffee Break
Session 1: Monitoring: Finding the missing millions - HBV Chair: John Ward and Lina Nerlander
14:30	Introduction by John Ward
14:45	Best practice talk - Myanmar Khin Pyone Kyi, MBBS, DBact, MMedSc, PhD, FRCP Myanmar Liver Foundation, Myanmar
15:00	Best practice talk - Rwanda Constance Mukabatsinda, MD Kigali University, Rwanda
15:15	Discussion
Session 2: Monitoring: Finding the missing millions - HCV Chair: Michael Ninburg and Yvan Hutin
15:45	Introduction by Michael Ninburg
16:00	Best practice talk - Egypt Manal El-Sayed, MD Ain Shams University, Egypt
16:15	Best practice talk - France Sylvie Deuffic-Burban, PhD Inserm, France
16:30	Discussion
17:00	Short Break
Session 3: Linkage to Care Chair: Olufunmilayo Lesi and Charles Boucher
17:15	Introduction by Olufunmilayo Lesi
17:30	Best practice talk - The Netherlands Marc van der Valk, MD, PhD AMC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
17:45	Best practice talk - Australia Alisa Pedrana, PhD Burnet Institute, Australia
18:00	Discussion
18:30	Networking/Poster reception
19:30	Workshop Dinner
Day 2
Session 4: Strategic information Chair: Jordan Feld and Angelos Hatzakis
08:30	Introduction by Jordan Feld
08:45	Greece - ARISTOTLE HCV: A fast-track intervention to seek-test-link-treat PWIDs in Athens Vana Sypsa, PhD National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
09:00	Best practice talk - Iceland Sigurdur Olafsson, MD, FACP Landspitali University Hospital Hringbraut, Iceland
09:15	Discussion
09:45	Oral abstract presentations Successful cascade of care and cure HCV in more than 2000 drugs users: how increase HCV treatment rate in drug users by nurse outreach care, since screening to treatment - Andre Jean Remy Integrating Hepatitis C Virus Screening and Linkage to Care of Baby Boomers at Community Hospital Emergency Department - Angelica Mercado Estimating the Impact and Costs of Scaling-Up Screening and Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus Elimination in Pakistan - Aaron Lim Monitoring viral hepatitis elimination – generating reliable estimates of hepatitis C prevalence - Ida Sperle-Heupel Hepatitis C care cascade in the country of Georgia: monitoring progress towards elimination - Tengiz Tsertsvadze Disproportions in the HCV incidence between Centers Addictions and Harm Reduction Unit - Jorge Valencia La Rosa Integrated testing and integrated diagnostic platforms of Hepatitis B and C with HIV and TB in Rwanda - Jean Damascene Makuza HCV, HBV and HIV infection and linkage to care in migrants: The Immigrant Take Care Advocacy (I.Ta.C.A.) experience in Palermo - Marco Tutone
11:00	Coffee Break
Session 5: Integrated approaches Chair: Jeffrey Lazarus and Manal El-Sayed
11:30	Introduction by Jeffrey Lazarus
11:45	Best practice talk - Georgia Amiran Gamkrelidze MD, PhD National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Georgia
12:00	Best practice talk - USA Timothy Morgan MD Department of Veterans Affairs, USA
12:15	Discussion
12:45	Closing remarks
13:00	Closing Lunch

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