Wednesday

Wednesday 16 September 2015

This page primarily shows the powerpoint slides and a limited selection of videos from the conference. Please be aware that only the powerpoints from those speakers who gave permission are available below. Please view the conference program here.

9.00am - 10.45am	Plenary 5
Myron S. Cohen	Treatment to prevent HIV: does timing matter? Video Presentation
Jo-Ann Passmore	Why STI-associated genital tract inflammation still matters in HIV transmission Video Presentation
Phillip Read	HIV and Syphilis: a syndemic with no end in sight Video Presentation

11.15am - 12.45pm	Advances in HIV and HTLV-1
Abhilasha Mathur	Characterizing CladeSpecific Virus-Host Interactions in HIV Infected Clinically Asymptomatic and AIDS Presenting Subjects
Kim Wilson	Development and Validation of a Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type-1 Proviral Load Assay
Joshua Schiffer	Increased Herpes Simplex Virus-2 Shedding in HIV-1 Infected Persons is due to Poor Immunologic Control in both Ganglia and Genital Mucosa

11.15am - 12.45pm	HIV and Women’s Health
Shaun Barnabas	Adolescents in South Africa and Assessment of HIV Risk: Knowing Who We Are Trying to Protect
Alison Norris	Sex Differences in HIV Knowledge, Testing Behaviors, and Decision Making Influences in Rural Malaw
Sheona Mitchell-Foster	Examining HPV prevalence and uptake of cervical cancer screening among HIV positive and negative women participating in a pilot RCT in Uganda comparing self-collection based HPV testing to VIA

11.15am - 12.45pm	Evaluating PrEP and HIV treatment as prevention in Australia
Jason Asselin	Awareness and Interpretation of the Ending HIV Campaign and Changing Attitudes About Treatment as Prevention in an Online Cohort Of MSM Video Presentation

11.15am - 12.45pm	HIV Transmission in MSM
Alison Castley	The Challenges of Diversity: HIV-1 Subtype Distribution and Transmission Networks within the Australian Molecular Epidemiology Network-HIV 2005-2012
Alison Castley	HIV-1 Sequence Diversity and Transmission Networks in Western Australia from 2000-2014, and their Impact on Baseline Clinical Characteristics
Ben Bavinton	HIV Transmission in Male Serodiscordant Couples in Australia, Thailand and Brazil
Sonali Wayal	Trends in Undiagnosed HIV and HIV Testing Behaviour in Community Samples of Men Who Have Sex With Men in London, UK: Results From Repeat Cross-Sectional Surveys Between 2000-2013
Rakesh Singh	First Forced Sex and Sexual Behaviour Affecting Prevalence of HIV/AIDS among MSM in South India

11.15am - 12.45pm	Causal interactions among structural, behavioural and biological drivers of STD/HIV epidemics
Eve Cheuk	Transitions around sex work and their significance in STI/HIV epidemics
Lyle McKinnon	Age, sexual experience and mucosal inflammation: What do we know? Video Presentation
Keith Fowke	Immune activation, gene expression and HIV acquisition risk Video Presentation
James Blanchard	Discussion: What does the mega model look like? Video Presentation

11.15am - 12.45pm	Multipurpose Technologies (MPTs): Developing interventions to simultaneously prevent STIs, HIV and pregnancy (WHO/IMPT/ASHA)
Vivian Black	Overview and pipeline of MPTs relevant to the prevention of STIs
Bridget Haire	The unmet need and potential application of MPTs for rectal use: Implications for women and MSM at risk of STIs and HIV Video Presentation
Erin Schelar	Global mapping of STIs, HIV and unplanned pregnancy. Where do these epidemics intersect?

1.45pm - 3.15pm	HIV and Co-morbidity
Paddy Mallon	HIV and CVD - do we really understand the risk?
Janine Trevillyan	Platelet Derived Soluble Glycoprotein VI Decreases Prior to Coronary Event in HIV Positive Patients
David Nolan	One Profile or Many? Plasma Biomarkers CXCL10, sCD163 and sCD14 Reveal Distinct Associations with HIV Treatment Response, Choice of Treatment Regimen, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Amit Achhra	Pre-Therapy Inflammation/F244 Coagulation Activation and Long-Term CD4 Response to Antiretroviral Therapy
Lucette Cysique	Decreased Cellular Energy in the Brain Frontal White Matter is Associated with Past Immunosuppression in Chronic HIV Infection
Samuel Turner	Detection of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in semen from HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM) during acute HCV infection

1.45pm- 3.15pm	Ending Hepatitis C in Populations
Gail Matthews	Control and Eradication within Australia of Hepatitis C from people living with HIV: the CEASE project
Gregory Dore	HCV treatment as prevention in prisons: SToP-C study Video Presentation

1.45pm- 3.15pm

HIV Epidemiology and Prevention

Thomas Quinn	Decreases in HIV prevalence in patients attending an inner-city emergency department over a decade correlate with trends in HCV but not HSV-2
Matthew Golden	Achieving the goals of the U.S. national HIV/AIDS strategy: Declining HIV diagnoses, improving clinical outcomes, and diminishing racial/ethnic disparities in King County, WA., USA
Phillip Keen	Rapid HIV testing increases testing frequency among gay and bisexual men: a controlled before-after study
Kerry Chant	The HIV Cascade: a review of methodology and data sources

1.45pm - 3.15pm	Late Breaker Session
Cristyn Davies	Randomised Controlled Trial Of A Complex Intervention To Improve School-Based HPV Vaccination For Adolescents: The HPV. EDU Study
Minh Duc Pham	Diagnostic test accuracy of the Alere Pima POC CD4 analyzer (PimaTM) in field settings: A meta-analysis

1.45pm - 3.15pm	Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV in Pregnancy
Nathalie Broutet	Eliminating mother to child transmission of HIV and syphilis
Sadaf Khan	Potential for uptake of diagnostic testing services along the continuum of care: Landscape assessment of community and providers
John Kinuthia	Clinical management of STI in pregnancy
Andrew Vallely	Point-of-care testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections to improve pregnancy outcomes in high-burden settings

1.45pm - 3.15pm	HPV and HIV: New Evidence on the Infection Risks and Strategies to Prevention HPV-related Disease among HIV-infected People
Jennifer Smith	The evaluation of screening, treatment and vaccination of HIV-infected women
Henry de Vries	Novel therapies for HPV-related anal disease
Mary Poynten	Using data on pathogenesis and epidemiology to inform anal cancer screening strategies: data from the Study of Prevention of Anal Cancer (SPANC)

3.45pm - 5.15pm	Plenary 6
Carlos Cáceres	Legal and Rights aspects of HIV and STI
Andrew Francis-Tan	Penicillin caused the AIDS pandemic - FOR
Jeffrey Klausner	Penicillin caused the AIDS pandemic - AGAINST

3.45pm - 5.15pm	Australasian HIV & AIDS Conference Plenary
Charles Chauvel	Excessive intellectual property protection for HIV treatments: the momentum for reform

5.20pm - 6.45pm	Panel Discussion
Robert Grant Mike Cohen Brian Gazzard Edwina Wright Mark Bloch Nicholas Parkhill Sharon Lewin Nic Holas Simon Ruth	Find me, Treat me, PrEP me, Heal me (Courtesy of Tommy)