Calendar
Canadian Participation at the XV International AIDS Conference
Bangkok, Thailand, July 11-16, 2004
Prepared by the International Affairs Directorate, Health Canada
The purpose of this calendar is to provide information on the participation of Canadian individuals and organizations in the XV International AIDS Conference and its satellite events. The calendar has been compiled based on information submitted by Canadians across the country who responded to a call letter which was widely distributed. While we have tried our best to make this publication as inclusive as possible, we apologize for any omissions.
In terms of layout, the calendar begins with a list of Canadian organizations that have exhibits displayed at the Conference. The next sections in the Calendar are organized by day. For each day, information has been provided on oral presentations, skills building workshops and satellite meetings organized in whole or in part by Canadians. The Annex lists Canadian poster presentations and poster displays.
EXHIBITS
Canada Booth
Booth Number 65 (Exhibition Hall 2)
This year, in light of Canada's role as the upcoming 2006 conference host, the Canada Booth is a joint venture between the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, City of Toronto, Toronto Tourism and partners in the Canadian Strategy for HIV/AIDS. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Clearinghouse (Canadian Public Health Association) has developed and produced the Canada Booth on behalf of this collaborative group. The result is an informative exhibit which creatively portrays how "Canadians take action on HIV/AIDS at home and around the world" and also entices conference participants to think ahead to AIDS 2006 in Toronto!
International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO)
Booth Number 201 (NGO Exhibition Hall 1)
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Booth Number 258 (NGO Exhibition Hall 1)
FRIDAY, JULY 9th
SATELLITE MEETINGS
Human Rights at the Margins: HIV/AIDS, Prisoners, Drug Users and the Law
Co-Organized by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit (India), International Harm Reduction Development, the Thai Drug Users Network. Co-hosted by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
TIME : 8h00 - 19h30
LOCATION: Asia Hotel, 296 Phayathai Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
DESCRIPTION: The conference will give participants from both developing and developed countries a chance to discuss two critical and concrete issues in substantial depth. The focus will be on legal, ethical and human rights issues arising in the context of HIV/AIDS in prisons - ranging from prevention to treatment and care of prisoners living with HIV/AIDS. It will also address legal, ethical and human rights issues relating to injecting drug use - inside and outside of prison. It will examine prevention and treatment strategies that work, and legal and policy obstacles to their wider implementation.
CONTACT: Ms. Elana Wright, +1 514-397-6828 ext: 259, ewright@aidslaw.ca
SUNDAY, JULY 11th
SATELLITE MEETINGS
Laboratory and Epidemiologic Developments in the use of Assays to Identify Recent
HIV Infection (STARHS)
Co-organized by University of Toronto and Institute of Human Virology (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
TIME: 13h30 - 16h00
LOCATION: Vendome I Room, Sofitel Silom Hotel
REGISTRATION: $US 20 or Baht 800 (on site)
CONTACT : Robert Remis, rs.remis@utoronto.ca or Anne Sill, sill@umbi.umd.edu
Acting on Rights: Women, HIV/AIDS and the Barcelona Bill of Right Co-organized by Health Canada International Affairs Directorate, Women's Health Bureau, Canadian Centres of Excellence for Women's Health, Women's Health Research Unit of the University of Ottawa, International Partnership for Microbicides
TIME: 16h15 - 18h15
LOCATION: Room F
DESCRIPTION: This session uses the Barcelona Bill of Rights as a framework for moving from rights to action. International panelists will present approaches to realizing some of the rights that are at the heart of empowering women in the fight against HIV/AIDS. These will include recommendations for legislative action on HIV/AIDS-related human rights abuses against women and girls; the application of gender-based analysis tools to the HIV/AIDS response; the promise of microbicides: ethical and gender considerations. The Session will contribute to the advancement of the Barcelona Bill of Rights and other international action and will help to identify priorities for action between now and the 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto. Dr. Nafis Sadik, Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, will chair the session.
REGISTRATION: Not required. Session is free of charge
CONTACT: Gail Steckley, gail_steckley@hc-sc.gc.ca
MONDAY, JULY 12th
SATELLITE MEETINGS
Questioning the Community Sector: Are We Making a Difference?
Co-organized by International Council on AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) and International HIV/AIDS Alliance
TIME: 18h00-20h00
LOCATION: Room K
DESCRIPTION: Four panelists, all veterans and activists from the community-led movement to fight AIDS, will examine the sector's effectiveness and influence as the epidemic continues to evolve. Panelists will engage in a discussion of a number of questions around how the community sector faces the new epidemics of the 21 st century. What are we doing wrong? What do we need to do to address next challenges? What are we doing right? Are we changing with the epidemic or are we stuck in stasis? How can we evolve to better address the epidemic? How can we broaden our scope and our reach?
CONTACT: Tim Thomas, tim@tnthomas.com
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
TOPIC : Implications of HIV Disease as a Lifelong and Episodic Disability
PRESENTER: Stephanie Nixon, for Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco, Canadian Working Group on HIV and Rehabilitation
SESSION: Issues of access to treatment and care
TIME: 11h45
LOCATION: Session Room K
ABSTRACT No.: MoOrD1036
TOPIC: The question was: could I find a way to live with AIDS?
PRESENTER: Jake Peters, PWA, OAN, CTAC, Toronto, Canada
SESSION : Involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS
TIME: 15h15
LOCATION: Session Room C
ABSTRACT No.: MoOrD1066
TUESDAY, JULY 13th
SATELLITE MEETINGS
Community Participation in HIV Vaccine Trials
Co-organized by ICASO and the World Health Organization - Africa AIDS Vaccine Programme
TIME: 20h15 - 22h15
LOCATION: Room B
DESCRIPTION: As vaccine trials progress and new ones are started, community groups must increase and deepen their level of preparation and participation. This session is an opportunity for representatives of the community sector involved in trials to share their experiences, and to provide suggestions for future trial designs. Those who are currently involved in trials and those who are preparing for imminent trials in their communities are encouraged to attend.
CONTACT: Francois Yabit, francoisy@icaso.org
SKILLS BUILDING WORKSHOP
Selection and use of Cd4 T-cell enumeration technology: A joint effort between WHO and the National HIV Immunology Laboratory (CIDPC)
Health Canada
SESSION No.: SB 211
TIME: 14h00 - 17h30
LOCATION: EC Room 1
DESCRIPTION: Scaling up for HIV anti-retroviral (ARV) therapy requires appropriate laboratory support to monitor the efficacy of treatment including the enumeration of CD4 T-lymphocytes (CD4 counts) in peripheral blood. The workshop will address the technical and operational aspects that needs to be taken in consideration when selecting commercially available CD4 technologies and will cover requirements for start up such as initial investment, facilities, workload capacity, training needs and quality assurance
CONTACT: Francis Mandy 613 957-0174, Frank_Mandy@hc-sc.gc.ca; Michele Bergeron 613 957-8050, Michele_Bergeron@hc-sc.gc.ca
How Can NGOs and CBOs Access Funding from the Global Fund? (French)
Co-organized by AIDSPAN, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ICASO, and GNP+
SESSION No.: SB 407
TIME: 16h00 - 17h30
LOCATION: CV Room 7
CONTACT: Mary Ann Torres, 416-921-0018, ext: 16, maryannt@icaso.org
Note: An English session will be held on Thursday, July 15 th at 10h30 in CV Room 7. Contact Natalia Ciausova, nataliac@icaso.org
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
TOPIC: Targeting HIV-1 Tat Protein to the virion
PRESENTER: Fernando Frankel, Health Canada
SESSION: Molecular regulation: reverse transcription through assembly
TIME: 14h45
LOCATION: Session Room F
ABSTRACT No.: TuOrA1136
TOPIC: Do men who receive money vs. goods or drugs for sex differ?
PRESENTER: Dan Allman, University of Toronto
SESSION: Two to tango: buyers and sellers in commercial sex
TIME: 16h00
LOCATION: Session Room K
ABSTRACT No.: MoOrD1036
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14th
SATELLITE MEETINGS
The Global Fund: How Can CCMs Be More Effective?
Co-organized by ICASO and AIDSPAN, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, GNP+
TIME: 18h00 - 20h00
LOCATION: Room D
DESCRIPTION: Just over two years old, the Global Fund as emerged as a prominent funding mechanism for AIDS. The community sector has been instrumental in its establishment, operations and governance. This satellite will bring together leaders of the community sector's involvement in the fund, to discuss how to make the CCM's more effective. Issues of representation, accountability, management, and disbursements will be covered through the lens of expanding and enhancing the community sector's participation in all the Fund's processes.
CONTACT: Natalia Ciausova, nataliac@icaso.org
Purpose, Partnerships and Progress on a Code of Good Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV/AIDS
Co-organized by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society and ActionAid, CARE USA, Global Health Council, GNP+, Grupo Pela Vidda, Hong Kong AIDS Foundation, ICASO, Ivoirian Network of PLWHA, International Harm Reduction Association, International HIV/AIDS Alliance and the World Council of Churches
TIME: 18h00 - 20h00
LOCATION: Room EC3
DESCRIPTION: This satellite is a joint initiative of members of the NGO HIV/AIDS Code of Practice Project Steering Committee. The discussion will consider the development of the Code of Practice for NGOs working in the HIV/AIDS response, especially the key themes emerging from consultations on the Draft Code with stakeholders around the world.
CONTACT: Sumita Banerjee, Sumita@icaso.org
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
TOPIC: Establishing prison-based harm reduction policies & programs in Eastern Europe & the Former Soviet Union
PRESENTER: Thomas Kerr, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
SESSION: Preventing HIV spread in prisons
TIME: 14h45
LOCATION: Session Room B
ABSTRACT No.: WeOrE1298
TOPIC: Genotypic resistance assay for entire gp-41 sequence with identification of gp-41 polymorphisms in enfuvirtide-naïve patients and new gp-41 mutations in patients failing enfuvirtide
PRESENTER: Mona Loutfy, McGill University
SESSION: Drug resistance
TIME: 14h45
LOCATION: Session room H
ABSTRACT No.: WeOrB1292
TOPIC: In-country monitoring and evaluation of the declaration of commitment adopted at the UN General Assembly General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS
PRESENTER: Sumita Banerjee, ICASO
SESSION: Policies and programmatic actions affecting inclusion/exclusion within HIV/AIDS responses
TIME: 15h00
LOCATION: Session Room D
ABSTRACT No.: WeOrE1305
TOPIC: Undiagnosed HIV infections: The rate-limiting step for the 3 by 5 initiative?
PRESENTER: Chris Archibald, Health Canada
SESSION: Access to care: challenges in scaling up ART to a nationwide program
TIME: 15h15
LOCATION: Session Room A
ABSTRACT No.: WeOrB1282
CANADA COCKTAIL RECEPTION
18h00 - 19h30
Terrazza Restaurant (IMPACT Conference Centre)
Following the Canadian tradition of the International AIDS Conference, a reception will be held to honour all participants from Canada, and to highlight the upcoming XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006. The evening will be hosted by the Government of Canada in partnership with the Government of Ontario and the City of Toronto.
Reception guests will have the opportunity to meet colleagues from the Canadian Embassy in Bangkok, representatives from international agencies, and fellow Canadian conference participants. Thai refreshments will be served. All Canadian delegates, exhibitors, NGOs and project officers are welcome to attend. The hosts look forward to seeing you there!
THURSDAY, JULY 15th
SATELLITE MEETINGS
How is Civil Society Using the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment (DoC) to Push Governments to Act?
Co-organized by ICASO and GNP+, ICAD, IFRC, UNAIDS
TIME: 18h00 - 20h00
LOCATION: Room E
DESCRIPTION: In this interactive session, frontline workers, policy-makers and advocates will share experiences and lessons learned from using the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment as an advocacy tool to enhance the response to HIV/AIDS. The session will focus on the implementation and monitoring of the DoC, with an emphasis on civil society's involvement. ICASO will present the results of its most recent community-based research project, and suggest further steps for more effective civil society participation.
CONTACT: Mary Ann Torres, maryannt@icaso.org
SKILLS BUILDING WORKSHOP
How Can NGOs and CBOs Access Funding from the Global Fund?
Co-organized by AIDSPAN, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ICASO, and GNP+
SESSION No.: SB 407
TIME: 10h30 - 12h00
LOCATION: CV Room 7
CONTACT: Natalia Ciausova, nataliac@icaso.org
HIV Microbicides, Treatment and Vaccines "Cross-Training" for Advocates and Activists: Understanding the Agenda, Strengthening the Capacity
Co-organized by International Council of AIDS Services Organizations (ICASO), Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), IDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC), Global Campaign for Microbicides (GCM)
SESSION No.: SB 415
TIME: 14h00 - 17h30
LOCATION: EC Room 5
CONTACT: Natalia Ciausova, nataliac@icaso.org
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
TOPIC: Discordant HIV test results among a community sample of gay and bisexual men: Results from the Ontario men's survey
PRESENTER: Ted Myers, University of Toronto
SESSION: Positive prevention - a timely opportunity
TIME: 14h30
LOCATION: Session Room C
ABSTRACT No.: ThOrC1411
ANNEX
POSTER PRESENTATIONS AND DISPLAYS
Monday, July 12 th
TOPIC: Advocacy and Policy Design: The Development of a Canadian HIV Vaccines Plan
PRESENTER: Brent Bauer, Ingrid Wellmeier, Ken Rosenthal, Ralf Jürgens, Marc-André Le Blanc, Health Canada, McMaster University, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Canadian AIDS Society
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4069
TOPIC: Disclosure of HIV status - developing resources for community based AIDS service organizations
PRESENTER: Glenn Betteridge, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4127
TOPIC: Privacy protection and the disclosure of health information: legal issues for people living with HIV/AIDS in Canada
PRESENTER: Glenn Betteridge, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeD3893
TOPIC: Building the foundations for an effective, consumer centered, Post Approval Surveillance System (PASS) for medicines approved for sale in Canada
PRESENTERS: L Binder, P Lundrigan, Canadian AIDS Society and CANVAC, York University, University of Toronto, Cancer Care Ontario
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4078
TOPIC: Community action leads to policy change on vaccines for HIV positive children in Ontario, Canada
PRESENTERS: L Binder, E Mandarino, S Margolese, R Rosenes, Canadian Treatment Action Council
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4034
TOPIC: Associations among IL-7, RANTES, SDF-1, disease progression and CD4 cell recovery in HIV-1 infected patients
PRESENTERS: MR Boulassel, MD Edwardes, M Klein, N Gilmore, R Lalonde, JP Routy , McGill University
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeA3054
TOPIC: Non-AIDS serious adverse events are as important as AIDS events in patients with advanced multi-drug resistant HIV disease
PRESENTERS: S Brown, J Singer, and A Anis, Canadian HIV Trials Network
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeD3841
TOPIC: Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in South Africa: A Case Study of Civil Advocacy and Policy Change
PRESENTER: Melanie Campbell, University of Toronto
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4058
TOPIC: Developing a method to assess compliance with human rights law
PRESENTER: Richard Elliott, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4165
TOPIC: TRIPS from Doha to Cancun...to Ottawa: WTO patent rules and Canadian civil society advocacy for global treatment access
PRESENTER: Richard Elliott, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4033
TOPIC: How does community influence national policy and funding?
PRESENTERS: Gail Flintoft, Paul Lapierre, Canadian AIDS Society
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4216
TOPIC: Estimating HIV prevalence and incidence in Canada: highlighting the need for enhanced research data and improved HIV surveillance
PRESENTER: Jennifer Geduld, Health Canada
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeC3650
TOPIC: Toronto East African Study: Improving Reliability and Validity of Reported HIV Related Behavior Through Collaboration With Key Community Members
PRESENTERS: Kimberly Gray, Liviana Calzavara, Esther Tharao, Ann Burchell, Ted Myers, Robert Remis, Carol Swantee and C Chalin, University of Toronto
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeD3981
TOPIC: Developing option-based model legislation on HIV/AIDS
PRESENTER: Ralf Jürgens , Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4171
TOPIC: The Ministerial Council on HIV/AIDS: a best practice model in engaging experts in the field of HIV/AIDS in policy and program development
PRESENTER: Lilja Jónsdóttir, Health Canada
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4067
TOPIC: HIV vaccine preparedness: Capacity-Building needs of community-based AIDS organization
PRESENTERS: M A LeBlanc, D Thompson, P Ritvo, Canadian AIDS Society, CANVAC - York University, University of Toronto
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4055
TOPIC: Testing Women as Mothers: "It wasn't presented in a way that was saying, we want to get HIV testing so that you can be aware if you're HIV-positive it was so that the baby is safe."
PRESENTERS: Lynne Leonard, University of Ottawa
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4137
TOPIC: Affecting public policy through community advocacy to improve access to medications in Canada
PRESENTERS: E Mandarino, L Binder, S Margolese, R Rosenes, T Di Pede, Canadian Treatment Action Council
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4031
TOPIC: Removing access barriers to medicinal marijuana policies through community action in Canada
PRESENTERS : E Mandarino, S Margolese, P Lundrigan, C Checkland, Canadian Treatment Action Council/ Canadian AIDS Society
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4164
TOPIC: Outcomes of an advocacy campaign to challenge Canadian development policy on access to ARVs
PRESENTERS: Srinivas Murthy and Shreyas Roy, Students Against Global AIDS & McGill University
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4090
TOPIC: Practical tools for surviving and thriving with ongoing loss: an intervention framework for long-term multiple loss survivors
PRESENTER: Yvette Perreault, AIDS Bereavement Project of Ontario
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeD3894
TOPIC: Enhancing diagnostic data for HIV surveillance: The Ontario laboratory enhancement study (LES)
PRESENTERS: R S Remis, C Swantee, M Fikre Merid, RWH Palmer, M Fearon, M Fisher, E Whittingham and C Major, University of Toronto
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeC3634
TOPIC: Screening for anal dysplasia: correlation of HPV genotypes and E6 transcripts with anal pathology
PRESENTER: Irving E. Salit
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeB3131
TOPIC: HIV/AIDS Resource Guide for the Mining Sector
PRESENTER: Rosemary Smart, Golder Associates (consultant)
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeD3692
TOPIC: The Warsaw Declaration: A Framework for Effective Action on HIV/AIDS and Injecting Drug Use (IDU)
PRESENTERS: Gail Steckley, Cate Hankins, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Diane McAmmond, Marita Killen, Health Canada
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4016
TOPIC: Stories from the Frontlines - Experiences and Lessons Learned in the First Two Years of Advocacy around the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment (DoC)
PRESENTER: Mary Ann Torres, International Coalition on AIDS Service Organizations
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeE4024
TOPIC: International collaboration enhances monitoring of the HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe
PRESENTERS: T Varleva, H Taskov, D C Reid, C P Archibald, Ministry of Health, Sofia, Bulgaria, National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria, Health Canada
ABSTRACT No.: MoPeC3609
Tuesday, July 13th
TOPIC: Health Service Delivery to Female Sex Workers in Vancouver
PRESENTER: Vicki Bright, Women's Information and Safe House (WISH)
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeD5003
TOPIC: Access to HIV Medications in Russia: Lessons from Brazil
PRESENTER: William Flanagan, Canada AIDS Russia Project - Queen's University
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeD5099
TOPIC: HIV-related harm reduction among women in the Canadian prison system: the need for best practices in action
PRESENTER: Jacqueline Gahagan, Dalhousie University
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeD5081
TOPIC: Access to gender-appropriate HIV prevention programs among young heterosexual males: Building a programming model
PRESENTERS: Jacqueline Gahagan, Laurene Rehman, Susan McWilliam, Nick Robinson, Tanara Pickard, Joel Durling, Dalhousie University
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeD5092
TOPIC: Why should I take these pills?: How positive youth are thinking about meds
PRESENTERS: E Goldberg, S Flicker, H Skinner, T C Veinot, A McClelland, S Read, The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto), University of Toronto, Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE), Positive Youth Outreach/AIDS Committee of Toronto,
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeD5176
TOPIC: Aberrant membrane binding and impaired multimerization of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Gag caused by CA-NC spacer region mutations
PRESENTER: Xiaofeng Guo, Jewish General Hospital & McGill University
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeA4343
TOPIC: Assessing the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS in a resource-poor country: the case of the Republic of Guinea
PRESENTER: Neeru Gupta, IDEA International Institute
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeD5287
TOPIC: The effectiveness of a female condom pilot project and barriers to female condom use among at-risk women in Toronto
PRESENTER: Jann Houston for Deborah Hardwick, Toronto Public Health
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeD5133
TOPIC: Baseline characteristics, antiretroviral resistance profile and clinical events in the OPTIMA trial: a preliminary report
PRESENTERS: M Holodniy, B Angus, S Brown, Canadian HIV Trials Network
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeB4578
TOPIC: HIV treatment, vaccine and microbicide advocacy: developing a common international agenda for action
PRESENTER: Ralf Jürgens, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeE5380
TOPIC: Medicinal Marijuana? what a trip! The Canadian experience
PRESENTERS: E Mandarino, S Margolese, P Lundrigan, C Checkland, Canadian Treatment Action Council
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeE5373
TOPIC: Building a model to explain HIV-positive women's changing care, treatment and support needs along an illness trajectory
PRESENTERS: Susan McWilliam, Jacqueline Gahagan, Dalhousie University
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeD5094
TOPIC: HIV/AIDS resiliency initiatives: sustaining ASO workers
PRESENTER: Yvette Perreault, AIDS Bereavement Project of Ontario
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeE5588
TOPIC: The basics of grief and multiple loss: a training manual for workers in AIDS service organizations
PRESENTER: Yvette Perreault, AIDS Bereavement Project of Ontario
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeE5572
TOPIC: Uptake and Acceptance of Antiretroviral Medications Among Female Sex Workers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
PRESENTER: Kate Shannon, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/ AIDS
ABSTRACT No.: TuPED5082
TOPIC: Antiretroviral therapy continues to elude a significant proportion of HIV+ patients in Vancouver, Canada
PRESENTERS: H Sun, B Nosyk, A Palepu, D Guh, B Vinduska, AH Anis, Centre for Evaluation and Health Outcomes
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeB4537
TOPIC: Improved uptake rates of Antiretroviral Therapy among hospitalized HIV + patients would significantly reduce readmissions
PRESENTERS: H Sun, B Nosyk, A Palepu, D Guh, B Vinduska, AH Anis, Centre for Evaluation and Health Outcomes
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeC4943
TOPIC: Skills building through a community-as-expert model
PRESENTERS: Shaleena Theophilus, Maxxine Rattner, Canadian AIDS Society
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeE5540
TOPIC: Continued high rates of HIV and Hepatitis C transmission among injection drug users in Vancouver, Canada: The CHASE Project
PRESENTER: Mark Tyndall, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
ABSTRACT No.: TuPpC2041
TOPIC: Mobilizing communities to take action against HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination
PRESENTER: Elana Wright, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeE5508
TOPIC: Communities' Preparedness towards HIV Vaccines, Microbicides and Other Preventive Technologies
PRESENTER: Francois Yabit, International Coalition on AIDS Service Organizations
ABSTRACT No.: TuPeE5526
Wednesday, July 14th
TOPIC: HIV Incidence Among MSM Still Unacceptably High: Analysis of Repeat Diagnostic HIV Testing Database in Ontario, Canada, 1996-2002
PRESENTERS: Ann Burchell, Liviana Calzavara, Ted Myers, Carol Swantee, Robert Remis, Janet Raboud, and the Polaris Study Team, University of Toronto
ABSTRACT No.: WePeC6168
TOPIC: Repeat HIV-Negative Testing: Public Rules and Private Realities
PRESENTERS: Liviana Calzavara, Karen Ryder, Dennis J. Haubrich, Ann Burchell, Ted Myers, Wendy Medved, and the Polaris Study Team, University of Toronto
ABSTRACT No.: WePe56792
TOPIC: Severe mitochondrial DNA depletion in post-mortem fat and liver tissue from a fatal case of lactic acidosis during HIV therapy
PRESENTER: Hélène Côté, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
ABSTRACT No.: WePeB5915
TOPIC: Baseline antiretroviral resistance profile and correlation with clinical events in the OPTIMA trial
PRESENTERS: M Holodniy, J Singer, R Woods, Canadian HIV Trials Network
ABSTRACT No.: WePeB5727
TOPIC: Research Technical Assistance under the Canadian Strategy on HIV/AIDS
PRESENTERS: Fadel Kane and San Patten, Health Canada and Alberta Community Council on HIV
ABSTRACT No.: WePeE6614
TOPIC: Psychosocial determinants of adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy among injection drug users
PRESENTER: Thomas Kerr, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
ABSTRACT No.: WePeB5806
TOPIC: The Canadian community response to HIV/AIDS
PRESENTERS: Paul Lapierre, Gail Flintoft, Canadian AIDS Society
ABSTRACT No.: WePeE6670
TOPIC: Strategic planning for HIV/AIDS: Collaboration in a Federal/Provincial/Territorial context
PRESENTERS: T. Lary and E. Clarkin, Health Canada
ABSTRACT No.: WePeE6675
TOPIC: Risk Conditions Impact Individual HIV Prevention Practices of Ottawa Injection Drug Users
PRESENTERS: Lynne Leonard, Christine Navarro, Nicholas Birkett, Robert Remis, Connie Kristiansen, University of Ottawa, University of Toronto, Carleton University
ABSTRACT No.: WePeC6027
TOPIC: Multi-level HIV policy development and service planning in a federal jurisdiction: opportunity knocks
PRESENTERS: W O'Brian, L Drasic, JM Clark, British Columbia Ministry of Health Services, Fraser Health Authority, Health Canada
ABSTRACT No.: WePeE6637
TOPIC: Cafe Hy Vong: STI/HIV prevention and care for vulnerable groups in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
PRESENTER: Michael L. Rekart, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control
ABSTRACT No.: WePeE6695
TOPIC: The "Sex Now Survey": HIV risk and prevention for gay men in Vancouver
PRESENTERS: Michael L. Rekart, Rick Marchand, Terry Trussler, Andrew Barker, Jacqueline Barnett, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Community Based Research Centre (CBRC)
ABSTRACT No.: WePeC6165
TOPIC: Trends in HIV incidence and sexual behavior in a cohort of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Montreal, 1996-2003
PRESENTERS: R S Remis, M Alary, J Otis, E Demers, B Masse, C George, J Vincelette, B Turmel, R Lavoie, R Leclerc and R Parent, University of Toronto, Hopital St-Sacrement (Quebec), Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Hopital St-Luc (Montreal), Institut National de Sante Publique (Montreal), and COCQ-sida (Montreal)
ABSTRACT No.: WePeC6169
TOPIC: The Canadian Inuit HIV/AIDS Network: Uniting Canada's Inuit in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
PRESENTER: Aideen Reynolds, Pauktuutit Inuit Women's Association
ABSTRACT No.: WePeE6876
TOPIC: The fear factor: biological determinants associated with transmission of drug resistance
PRESENTERS: JP Routy, M Machouf, MD Edwardes, BG Brenner, R Thomas, B Trottier, D Rouleau, P Cote, JG Baril, C Tremblay, R Leblanc, MR Boulassel, RP Sekaly, MA Wainberg, McGill University, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, University of Montreal
ABSTRACT No.: WePeB5703
TOPIC: The Canada AIDS Russia project (CARP): a successful multi-disciplinary model
PRESENTER: Irving E. Salit, Toronto General Hospital
ABSTRACT No.: WePeE6721
TOPIC: A whole greater than its parts: a community-based model for HIV/AIDS treatment information exchange
PRESENTERS: T C Veinot, T M Rogers, Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
ABSTRACT No.: WePeE6707
TOPIC: A Gender Issue: Reducing the vulnerability of Maasai girls to HIV/AIDS
PRESENTER: V. Corey Wright, Wilfrid Laurier University
ABSTRACT No.: WePeD6479
TOPIC: Associations of sexual risk taking among Kenyan female sex workers after enrolment in an HIV-1 prevention trial
PRESENTER: Geeta Yadav, University of Toronto
ABSTRACT No.: WePeC6252
Thursday, July 15th
TOPIC: Effects of penile modifications, penile dimensions and condom use skill on condom breakage and slippage
PRESENTER: Dan Allman, University of Toronto & University of Edinburgh
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeC7405
TOPIC: Discordant HIV test results among a community sample of gay and bisexual men: Results from the Ontario men's survey
PRESENTERS: Liviana Calzavara, co-authors: Dennis J. Haubrich, Ted Myers, Domenico Calla, Karen Ryder, and the Polaris Study Team, University of Toronto
ABSTRACT No.: ThOrC1411
TOPIC: Stigmatization and discrimination: HIV/AIDS and the law in Nigeria
PRESENTER: Renua Scott-Emuakpor, The Lazarus Foundation
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeC7547
TOPIC: "The Results of a Nation-Wide Environmental Scan on the Community-Based Research (CBR) Skills and Needs of Aboriginal AIDS Service Providers in Canada"
PRESENTERS: Dina Epale , Kevin Barlow, Randy Jackson, Robert Friday, Gwen Reimer, Fadel Kane, Harvey Michelle, Brenda Elias, Fred Andersen, Shayne Metraux, Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network, Praxis Research Associates, Health Canada, University of Manitoba, Health Labrador Corporation, Winnipeg youth working group
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeE7943
TOPIC: 3 by 5 is that truly enough? An estimate of the actual worldwide need for antiretrrovirals
PRESENTER: Robert Hogg, University of British Columbia
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeB7243
TOPIC: Sustaining AIDS Education within diverse communities
PRESENTER: Jann Houston for Louise Carberry, Toronto Public Health
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeE8019
TOPIC: A model for best practice: Making surveillance accessible through partnership
PRESENTERS: F Hyndman, P Kilabuk, D Lambert, R Masching, B D Tudin, D C Reid, Metis Caucus, NACHA, Edmonton, Canada; Inuit Caucus, NACHA, Pangnirtung, Canada; Community Caucus, NACHA, Edmonton, Canada; First Nations Caucus, NACHA, Halifax, Canada; Health Canada
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeE8163
TOPIC: Prison needle exchange: a review of international evidence and expertise
PRESENTER: Ralf Jürgens, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeC7472
TOPIC: Determinants of highly active antiretroviral therapy discontinuation among injection drug users
PRESENTER: Thomas Kerr, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
ABSTRACT No.: ThPpD2090
TOPIC: HIV testing and pregnancy. Protecting access to informed consent through community action in Canada
PRESENTER: S Margolese, Canadian Treatment Action Council
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeE7981
TOPIC: So you want to have a baby? Questions and answers about HIV and pregnancy
PRESENTER: S Margolese, Canadian Treatment Action Council
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeE8147
TOPIC: "Where to begin? Assessing research capacity among community-based HIV/AIDS organizations"
PRESENTERS: San Patten and Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco, Alberta Community Council on HIV and British Columbia Persons with AIDS Society
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeE7918
TOPIC: Transforming Research into Awareness and Action
PRESENTER: Lia De Pauw, Teen Sexual Health and Global Education & Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeD7829
TOPIC: HIV testing among pregnant women: Results from the Ontario HIV seroprevalence study
PRESENTERS: RS Remis, C Swantee, M Fikre Merid, R W H Palmer, M Fisher, K Wu, S King, M E Millson, L Calzavara, E Whittingham and C Major, Ontario Ministry of Health, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeC7302
TOPIC: Through a glass darkly: evaluation of HIV/AIDS Website reach, usage and impact
PRESENTERS: T M Rogers, T C Veinot, Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
ABSTRACT No.: ThPe8013
TOPIC: Improving access to HIV resistance testing in Canada through community action
PRESENTERS: R Rosenes, E Mandarino, L Binder, Canadian Treatment Action Council
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeE7977
TOPIC: Developing Coherent Policy Platforms for Human Rights Advocacy around HIV Vaccine Development
PRESENTER: Mary Ann Torres, ICASO
ABSTRACT No.: ThPeE8198
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