Friday 16 July

Saturday 17 July

 

 

Session 1: Prevention of Mother to Child HIV Transmission: Guidelines and Program Implementation

Invited lecture: What's new and Why in WHO revised PMTCT guidelines

E. Abrams

Pres.

 

Invited lecture: Operational research on PMTCT - Lessons learned and gaps

L. Guay

Pres.

 

Invited lecture: PMPCT challenges - In country implementation

D. Mbori-Ngacha

Pres.

 

Safety of tenofovir use during pregnancy: Associations with low birth weight and early growth in HIV-exposed uninfected infants

G. Siberry

Pres.

 

Monitoring birth defects among HIV positive, ART exposed pregnant women: 20 years of antiretroviral pregnancy registry data

V. Vannappagari

Pres.

 

Post-exposure prophylaxis of breastfeeding infants with antiretroviral drugs to age 14 weeks: updated efficacy results of the PEPI-Malawi trial.

T. Taha

Pres.

 

Post-18 month confirmatory HIV testing in HIV DNA PCR positive children: retrospective descriptive analysis from an operational setting in Lesotho

A. Garcia-Prats

Pres.

 

 

Session 2: Treatment of Pediatric HIV Infection (1)

Invited lecture: What’s new in WHO Pediatric Treatment Guidelines

L. Mofenson

Pres.

 

Invited lecture: Managing children with treatment failure

J. Ananworanich

Pres.

 

The evolution of paediatric antiretroviral treatment guidelines: what's the impact on the ground?

M. Penazzato

Pres.

 

 

Session 3: Treatment of Pediatric HIV Infection (2)

Early mortality and loss to follow up after start of antiretroviral treatment in Malawian HIV infected children remains high

P. Moons

N.A.

 

Response to early antiretroviral treatment in HIV-infected infants: the experience of the European Pregnancy and Paediatric HIV Cohorts Collaboration

C. Townsend

Pres.

 

Viral load predicts WHO Stage 3 and 4 events in HIV-infected children on HAART, independent of CD4 T-lymphocyte value

G. Siberry

Pres.

 

Combination antiretroviral regimens and treatment switching strategies in HIV-infected antiretroviral naive children aged 1 month-18 years

G. Tudor-Williams

Pres.

 

Usefulness of immunological failure to identify virological failure and guide switching in children on antiretroviral therapy

B. Eley

Pres.

 

 

Session 4: Complications of HIV and Its Treatment

Invited lecture: Metabolic complications of HIV and its treatment in children

A. Vigano

Pres.

 

Invited lecture: Neurocognitive complications of HIV and its treatment in children

M. Boivin

Pres.

 

Comparison of cardiac manifestation in treatment naïve children to those on antiretroviral treatment attending a pediatric HIV clinic in Tanzania

W. Schimana

Pres.

 

Metabolic abnormalities in a European cohort of HIV-infected children and adolescents

N. Alam

Pres.

 

Severe adverse events in HIV-infected children in Asia after first-line HAART

T. Bunupuradah

Pres.

 

Prevalence of low bone mineral density and longitudinal changes in bone mineral content in perinatally HIV-infected adolescents

A. Schtscherbyna

N.A.

 

Regulatory T cells and chronic immune activation in HIV-1 infected children

R. Freguja

N.A.

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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