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 |
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
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Jason Bell | Impact of The LNG-IUS on Cervical Persistence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Vaginal Microbiota in a Baboon Model |
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
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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 |