Tuesday

Tuesday 15 September 2015

Please be aware that only presentations from those speakers who gave permission are available below. Please view the conference program here.

11.15am - 12.30pm	Novel Methods for STI basic research
Sunniva Förster	Standardized, Quality Assured Time-Kill Curve Analysis and Pharmacodynamic Functions of Different Antibiotics for in Vitro Evaluation of Treatment Regimens for Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Kristie Connolly	Establishment of the gonorrhea mouse model for pre-clinical testing of antimicrobial agents against Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Christine Johnston	Estimating HSV–2 Superinfection using a Novel Custom Genotyping Platform

11.15am - 12.30pm	Trichomonas vaginalis
David Martin	Trichomonas vaginalis nucleic acid clearance following treatment of HIV negative women
Charlotte Gaydos	Performance of Self-collected penile swabs for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Trichomonas vaginalis, and Mycoplasma genitalium

11.15am - 12.30pm	Partners, places and STI risks
Jesse Clark	Patient–Delivered Partner Therapy (PDPT) Increases the Frequency of Partner Notification among MSM in Lima, Peru: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Cath Mercer	Overcoming the ambiguity of sexual partnership type: A novel categorisation using data from Britain’s 3rd National Survey of Sexual Attitudes & Lifestyles (Natsal-3)
Jillian Pintye	Trichomonas vaginalis risk and cofactors among peripartum Kenyan women: protective association with male partner circumcision
Jacky Jennings	Place and Core Transmitters – Implications for the Targeted Control of STI Transmission in Urban Areas
Diego Cuadros	Incorporating Spatial Variability to Generate Sub-National Estimates of HIV Prevalence

11.15am - 12.30pm	Sexual health of sex workers
David Fowler	‘Tara Bandu’, Social Values and Sex Work: The Interplay of Traditional Justice, Society and HIV/F149STI Programming for Sex Workers in Timor-Leste
Caroline Thng	Multicultural Survey – 20 Years On: Trends in Chinese and Thai Female Sex Worker Demographics and Sexual Health in Sydney
Eric Chow	Behavioural interventions improve condom use and HIV testing uptake among female sex workers in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis

11.15am - 12.30pm	Results from the Australian Chlamydia Control Effectiveness Pilot (ACCEPt)
David Regan and Ben Hui	The impact of screening on chlamydia transmmission in Australia – a mathematical modelling study
Helen Ward	What does ACCEPt mean for chlamydia control policy?

11.15am - 12.30pm Promoting STI control policies and programmes post–2015: Lessons for the future from Iran and China

Monire Bassir	Keeping STIs on the agenda in Iran: Role of UNFPA
Flora Wu	STI control in China: What accounts for political priorities?

2.00pm - 3.30pm	Vaginal health and the microbiome
Rebecca Brotman	Hormonal Contraception is Associated with Stability and Lactobacillus-Dominance of the Vaginal Microbiota in a Two-Year Observational Study
Liselotte Hardy	The Impact of Vaginal Bacterial Bio film on Intravaginal Rings
Hanneke Borgdorff	Cervicovaginal microbiome dysbiosis is associated with proteome changes related to alterations of the cervicovaginal mucosal barrier
Joanna Borgogna	Cigarette smoking is associated with an altered metabolic profile in the vaginal tract

2.00pm - 3.30pm	Increasing access to and uptake of sexual health care
Claudia Estcourt	Is an automated online clinical care pathway for people with genital chlamydia (chlamydiaOCCP) within an esexual health clinic feasible and acceptable? proof of concept study.
Kees Rietmeijer	Good Call! Implementation of a Regional Online and Toll–Free STD Clinical Consultation Program
Devon Haag	Referring Clinic TurnAways to British Columbia’s Internet-Based Testing Program Get checked online to Increase Capacity for Timely STI/HIV Testing
Jeff Klausner	Attributes of Diagnostic Tests to Increase Uptake of Testing For Syphilis and HIV in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

2.00pm - 3.30pm	Chlamydia infections
Barbara Van der pol	Combined Detection of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and Trichomonas using the BD MAXTM CT/GC/TV Assay
Kirsty Smith	High Chlamydia Treatment Failure Rates in Men Who Have Sex With Men
Jane Hocking	Azithromycin treatment failure in women infected with genital chlamydia infection
Jason Bell	Impact of The LNG-IUS on Cervical Persistence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Vaginal Microbiota in a Baboon Model

2.00pm - 3.30pm	HPV Vaccination: Hits and misses
Marlene Kong	Health Care Attendance among Aboriginal Youth Aged 15-9 Years Provides Opportunities to Improve Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccination Coverage.
Eric Chow	The rapid and near elimination of human papillomavirus (HPV) type 6, 11, 16 and 18 among young high–-risk women within three years of the national HPV vaccination programme in Australia: Findings from a 10–year cross-sectional study
Sathyanarayan Tamsetty	Evidence, Politics and Cultures in Policymaking: Policy Analysis of HPV Vaccine Introduction in India
Worrawan Klinsupa	HPV vaccine introduction in Thailand
Harrell Chesson	The Estimated Impact and Cost–Effectiveness of Nonavalent HPV Vaccination in the United States
Adrian Ludlam	General Practitioner Awareness of Sexual Orientation in a Community and Internet Sample of Gay and Bisexual Men in New Zealand: Implications for HPV Vaccination

2.00pm - 3.30pm	Molecular aspects of antimicrobial resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae
William Shafer	Efflux pumps in N. gonorrhoeae – cause of resistance and targets for therapeutics and vaccine?

2.00pm - 3.30pm	Sexual health issues for Indigenous youth in Australia and New Zealand
James Ward	The epidemiology of STIs in young indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand
Terryann Clark	What do young Indigenous people tell us about sexual health? Finding from two national surveys in Australia and New Zealand
James Ward	Supporting primary health services to address high rates of sexually transmissible infections; findings from the STRIVE trials
Caroline Swan and Rebecca Guy	TTANGO (Test, Treat and Go); use of molecular point-of-care tests to detect and treat sexually transmissible infections in young Aboriginal people in remote communities
Marlene Kong	Capacity building of young Aboriginal health workers in health promotion improves the sexual health of their peers

4.00pm - 5.30pm
Plenary 4

Kawango Agot
Male circumcision for STI prevention –how well does it work and how is it done?

Ravi Verma
Where are the men? STI and sexual health services for men

Henry de Vries
Sexually transmitted infections in men who have sex with men

5.30pm - 6.00pm	Microbiome of the genital tract, host immune responses and STI interactions
Jacques Ravel	Population differences and temporal dynamics in the vaginal microbiota, rethinking health and disease, and related to bacterial vaginosis.
Rupert Kaul	Genital immunology, the microbiota and HIV transmission
Janneke van de Wijgert	The vaginal microbiome and STI