Monday 10 January

Tuesday 11 January

 

Session 1: Epidemiology of HIV in Women and Girls

Invited lecture: Social and Structural correlates of risk for women

K. Smith

Pres.

 

Agency among women engaging in transactional sex: Implications for HIV vulnerability

Y. Zembe

Pres.

 

Regional differences in demographics, antiretroviral use, and virological response to therapy among HIV-positive women in a multi-site Canadian cohort

A. Palmer

Pres.

 

HIV-positive women from adolescence through menopause accessing care and treatment in Central Africa

J. Newman

Pres.

 

Comparison of HIV-positive women with children and without children accessing HIV care and treatment in the IeDEA Central Africa cohort

A. Freeman

Pres.

 

 

Session 2: HIV prevention for Women (1)

Invited lecture: Genital immunology and HIV Transmission

R. Kaul

Pres.

 

Invited lecture: Microbicides

Q. Abdool Karim

Pres.

 

Trial participation disclosure in the CAPRISA 004 Tenofovir gel trial

S. Succop

Pres.

 

 

Session 2: HIV prevention for Women (2)

Use of survey and video to increase uptake of long-term family planning methods in Zambian Cohort in preparation for HIV prevention studies

D. Sitrin

Pres.

 

Scaling up couples counseling and testing in Rwanda National HIV Program

A. Ahayo

N.A

 

HIV screening in the emergency department: Does testing methodology impact the refusal rate in women screened?

S. Isom

Pres.

 

The impact of expanding access to HAART on fertility intentions, contraceptive use, and fertility among women in an HIV hyper-endemic setting

A. Kaida

Pres.

 

 

Session 3: Learning from each other: what cohorts of women are available

Invited lecture: Overview of cohorts of HIV-infected women and girls

M. Gandhi

Pres.

 

Threat to success in women: toxicity and failure. Long-term-results from the Chilean AIDS Cohort (ChiAC)

P. Vasquez

Pres.

 

Violence among a cohort of HIV-positive women on antiretroviral therapy in British Columbia, Canada

A. Palmer

Pres.

 

Women with a history of injection drug use at greatest risk for poorer clinical outcomes in a cohort of HIV-positive individuals in Canada

A. Cescon

Pres.

 

HPTN 064 (ISIS): Identifying and retaining US women at greatest risk of HIV infection

D. Haley

Pres.

 

 
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