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
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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 |