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| Plenary Session: The Puzzle of Prevention – Putting the Pieces Together |  |
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| Marie Laga, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp James McIntyre, University of the Witwatersrand Peter Cherutich, National AIDS/STD Control Programme, Kenya Portia Ngcaba, Treatment Action Campaign |
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| 10:30 – 12:30 |
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| Session 25 | Scaling Up Support Approaches for PMTCT Programmes | |||
| Track Women and Children |
181 | Integrated Provision of Antiretroviral Therapy in Antenatal Care Increases Treatment among Eligible, HIV-Infected Pregnant Women William Killam, CIDRZ/ University of Alabama |
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| 445 | Integrating PMTCT into the Rural Health Care System in Guangxi Province, China Xiaoyu Wei, U.S. Government (CDC/GAP China) |
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| 1034 | Rapid Scale Up of the PMTCT Program in Namibia Florence Soroses, Ministry of Health and Social Services Namibia |
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| 1269 | Introducing More Efficacious PMTCT Regimen in Swaziland – Lessons Learned Thembie Masuku, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation |
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| 1500 | Comprehensive PMTCT Care and Psychosocial Support in Tanzania through Family Support Groups Mihayo Bupamba, Columbia University ICAP (Tanzania) |
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| Session 26 | Youth and Prevention | |||
| Track Responding to Challenges in HIV Prevention |
977 | Don’t Wait, Community Level Interventions to Engage Parents and Children in Sexual Reproductive
Health Conversations Igor Marara, Population Services International |
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| 1104 | Youth Involvement with the National AIDS Programme Through a Work Study Programme Shanti Singh-Anthony, Ministry of Health, National AIDS Programme Secretariat Guyana |
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| 1174 | Lessons in Creating a Cross-Sectoral Public-Private Partnership for HIV Prevention among Youth
Chuck Dages, Warner Bros. Warren Buckingham, U.S. Government (PEPFAR Kenya) Nomi Fuchs-Montgomery, U.S. Government (OGAC) |
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| 1477 | Using Diverse Strategies to Empower and Energize Youth in HIV Prevention: The Bridge Project
Experience Joel Suzi , Bridge Project Malawi |
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| 1871 | Using Public Private Partnerships to Promote Youth-Focused HIV Prevention through
Videogame Technology Chuck Dages, Warner Bros. Warren Buckingham, U.S. Government (PEPFAR Kenya) Nomi Fuchs-Montgomery, U.S. Government (OGAC) |
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| HIV Prevention with Adolescents in Southern Africa – Some Issues for Consideration Rick Olson, UNICEF |
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| Session 27 | Managing for Results: Global Fund Performance-Based Funding | |
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| Track Performance-Based Programming and Systems Strengthening |
This session presents how performance-based funding (PBF) works in practice. The PBF model is discussed
through Global Fund portfolio analysis and through country experiences of implementation. Key messages include: PBF model improves country ownership and provides an incentive to improve management both for programs that are performing well and showing results, and for programs that need system strengthening in order to perform better. |
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| 1084 | Performance-Based Financing: An Impact Evaluation on Prevention and Care and Treatment Activities Anthony Tanoh, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation |
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| Global Fund Experience: Promoting Managing for Results Musoke Jackson Sempala, Global Fund |
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| Implementing Performance-Based Funding in the Rwandan National HIV Program Louis Rusa, Ministry of Health, Rwanda |
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| Managing for Results: Ethiopian Experience Meskele Lera, Federal HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office |
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| Session 28 | Addressing the Needs of Men Having Sex with Men in Africa | |||
| Track Effective HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support Programs for MSM/Transgender, Drug-Users, Prisons and Sex Workers |
669 | “They Are Able To Speak To Us More Freely”: Cell Phone Technology Supports Stigma Reduction
and Increased CT Uptake Among MSM in Ghana Lydia Clemmons, Academy for Educational Development |
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| 702 | Capacity Development on Prevention and Care Linkage for MSM Community in Nigeria: Strategies and Challenges Ayuba Zoakah, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria |
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| 963 | Scaling-Up MSM Prevention, Treatment and Care: MSM Clinical Guidelines Integrated within the Primary Health Care Approach of IMAI at Health Centre and District Hospital Level Eyerusalem Negussie, World Health Organization |
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| Session 29 | Counseling and Testing: Prevention Impact | |||
| Track Cross-Cutting |
537 | Counselor-Facilitated Disclosure of HIV Positive Results Among Discordant Couples in Rakai District, Uganda Robert Kairania, Rakai Health Sciences Program |
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| 937 | A Man Knows: Provincial Counseling and Testing Week Thembisile Xulu, Right to Care |
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| 1103 | Impact of Interpersonal Communication and Promotion Campaigns on Uptake of HIV Counseling and Testing Services by Heterosexual Couples in Rural and Urban Areas in Zimbabwe Karin Hatzold, Population Services International |
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| 1373 | Using Community CT to Reach Men and Couples in Mozambique Nely Honwana, Population Services International |
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| 1623 | Behavior Change among Repeat HIV Negative Testers in the Namibian Military Liezel Wolmarans, The Social Marketing Association (SMA Namibia) |
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| Session 30 | Promoting Access to Treatment and Reducing Early Mortality | |||
| Track Evolving Challenges in Treatment, Laboratory, Care and Support Services |
1208 | Reducing Missed Opportunity for Timely Antiretroviral Treatment (ART): Experience of Expanding
Baseline CD4 Testing for Rural Ugandan HIV Patients Mubiru Norbert, RTI International |
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| 1318 | Know your CD4 Campaign: An Approach To Increasing Numbers of People on Treatment and
Enhancing Patient Empowerment Peter Memiah, University of Maryland School of Medicine |
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| 1556 | High Risk Express Care: A Novel Care Model to Reduce Early Mortality among High Risk HIV-Infected
Patients Initiating Combination Antiretroviral Treatment Paula Braitstein, USAID-AMPATH Partnership |
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| 1670 | Moving Towards Universal Access to Antiretroviral Therapy in Namibia Ndapewa Hamunime, Ministry of Health and Social Services Namibia |
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| 1793 | Mortality Rates and Causes of Death in Rwandan Patients on HAART: Recommendations to Improve
Patient Care Innocent Turate, Family Health International |
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| Session 31 | Health Management Information Systems | |||
| Track Performance-Based Programming and Systems Strengthening |
619 | Assessment of Patient Monitoring Systems in Mozambique
Laura Packel, University of California, San Francisco |
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| 934 | Using Google Earth to Create an HIV/AIDS Spatial Database: the Experience of PEPFAR Côte d’Ivoire Aime Nicoue, U.S. Government (CDC Côte d’Ivoire) |
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| 1340 | Using a Standardized Register to Strengthen Follow-up of HIV-Exposed Infants in Zimbabwe Stanley Mashumba, Ministry of Health and Child Welfare Zimbabwe |
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| 1479 | SMS Based Health Information Distribution Rashid Khan, U.S. Government (Peace Corps) |
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| 14:00 – 16:00 |
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| Session 32 | Scaling Up HIV Diagnosis in Infants and Children | |||
| Track Women and Children |
887 | Scale up of Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) in Tanzania: Experience from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Foundation Chrispine Kimario, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation |
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| 1000 | Namibia’s Early Infant Diagnosis Program from January 2006 to September 2008 Angela Mushavi, Potentia |
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| 1046 | Providing Comprehensive and Family-Centered HIV Care and Treatment in Haiti Lucito Jeannis, Jhpiego |
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| 1049 | Promoting a Family-Centered Approach in Scaling-Up Care and Treatment Services for Children in
Rwanda Gerard Ngendahimana, IntraHealth International HIV/AIDS Clinical Services Program |
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| 1286 | EID Program Scale-Up and Partnership with Regional Laboratories for Sustainability Berhanu Gidada, JHU-TSEHAI |
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| Session 33 | Positive Prevention in Action | |||
| Track Responding to Challenges in HIV Prevention |
The Positive Prevention in Action session will describe the outcomes of the recent UNAIDS/GNP+ technical consultation during which PLHIV and partners identified values and principles, as well as components, of what is now called “Positive Health Dignity and Prevention” (PHDP). The session will begin with a debate between WHO and UNAIDS contrasting the conventional positive prevention concept with PHDP, followed by a presentation by an implementer highlighting a positive prevention intervention at country level. A facilitated Conference Centre discussion will follow. | |||
| 215 | Where to Now? Next Steps for HIV Prevention Programming for Persons Living with HIV –
San Salvador, El Salvador, 2008 Nelson Arboleda, U.S. Government (CDC Central America) |
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| Session 34 | Best Practices in Developing and Transitioning Programs to Local Partners | |
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| Track Performance-Based Programming and Systems Strengthening |
81 | The Power of Namibia’s Churches: Demonstrating a Sustainable Model of OVC Care Lucy Steinitz, Family Health International |
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| 226 | Transitioning to Local Partners in South Africa Ruth Stark, Catholic Relief Services |
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| 699 | Indicators of Success Among NGO’s: a Call for Action for Donors and Partners Michelle Schaan, AED |
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| 1790 | Best Practices in Transitioning Programs to Local Partners: The Case of NOPE Peter Mwarogo, Family Health International |
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| Session 35 | Integrating Care and Treatment into Programmes for Intravenous Drug Users | |||
| Track Effective HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support Programs for MSM/Transgender, Drug-Users, Prisons and Sex Workers |
72 | Role of Methadone Maintenance Treatment in China’s Response to HIV/AIDS Zhijun Li, U.S. Government (CDC China) |
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| 1277 | “Give Us A Go – We Can Do Well On ART Too” – IDU in Vietnam Experience Good Clinical And
Immunological Outcomes On ART Rachel Burdon, Family Health International |
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| 2004 | Initiating a Risk Reduction Program for Injecting Drug Users in Zanzibar Amy Cunningham, Columbia University, ICAP Tanzania |
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| Ukranian Experience on Issues of Integrating HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care into Programs for IDV’s Volodymyr Kurpita, All-Ukranian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS |
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| Session 36 | Engaging Men in the AIDS Response | |||
| Track Cross-Cutting |
832 | Namibian Male Leaders Conference on HIV/AIDS Naftali Hamata, Ministry of Health and Social Services Namibia |
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| 1931 | Expanding Access to Health Services for Highly Mobile Men Paul Matthew, North Star Foundation Africa |
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| mothers2mothers’ Support for Efforts to Engage Men through PMTCT Couples Counseling and Testing
Services and Success Stories Geraldine Umutesi, Imbuto Foundation |
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| Session 37 | Optimal Methods to Improve Retention in Adult Treatment Programs | |||
| Track Evolving Challenges in Treatment, Laboratory, Care and Support Services |
528 | Response to Antiretroviral Therapy among HIV Infected Patients at Outpatient Clinics in Vietnam Nguyen Viet Nhung, National TB Program Vietnam |
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| 1025 | Mobile Staff Serving Immobile Clinics Darren Gough, The Institute for Youth Development SA |
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| 1259 | Patient Retention in Treatment – Contributing Factors and Challenges in Tanzanian Patients on
Antiretroviral Therapy Daniel Lukumay, University of Maryland School of Medicine |
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| 1608 | Treatment Outcomes of HIV-Infected Adults Enrolled in the National Antiretroviral Therapy Program – Mozambique, 2004-2007 Francisco Mbofana, U.S. Government (CDC) |
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| Session 38 | Pushing Boundaries of Surveillance | |||
| Track Performance-Based Programming and Systems Strengthening |
173 | Using Verbal Autopsy in a Post-Census Survey to Capture HIV/AIDS Deaths and Other Leading Causes
of Death in Mozambique Stirling Cummings, Measure Evaluation |
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| 190 | Unexpectedly High HIV Prevalence among Thai Sex Workers in a Respondent-Driven Sampling Survey Chomnad Manopaiboon, Thailand MOPH-U.S. CDC Collaboration |
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| 974 | Sensitivity and Specificity of the WHO HIVDR Threshold Survey Sampling Technique: The Experience
from Botswana Negussie Taffa, U.S. Government (CDC/GAP) |
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| 1301 | Declines in HIV Prevalence and Risk Behavior in Namibia: A Review of the Evidence Jan Swartz, National Planning Commission / Central Bureau of Statistics |
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| 1736 | HIV Case Surveillance in Developing Countries: Designing, Testing, and Implementing
a National System Gen Meredith, NASTAD |
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| Session 40 | Blood Safety | |||
| Track Responding to Challenges in HIV Prevention |
35 | Formulation of the National Blood Policy (NBP) to Strengthen Local Partnerships towards Sustainable
HIV Prevention in Blood Transfusion in Namibia Paulina Nghipandulwa, Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services |
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| 107 | Strategy to Obtain Voluntary Donors in Haiti James Chitsva, WHO |
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| 223 | International Cooperation in the Screening of Blood Donors for Transfusion Transmissible Infections
Robert Wilkinson, Blood Transfusion Service of Namibia |
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| 1128 | Trends in the Profile of Blood Donors at the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS), Ministry of
Health, Guyana James Chitsva, WHO |
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| Session 41 | HIV Drug-Resistance Surveillance: What Do We Need to Know? | |
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| Track Evolving Challenges in Treatment, Laboratory, Care and Support Services |
1115 | Assessment of Early Warning Indicators for HIV Drug Resistance Resulting from ART Programmatic
Factors at Select Sites in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 2008 Alexandre Ekra, U.S. Government (CDC) |
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| 1391 | Using HIV Drug Resistance Monitoring Systems to Increase Quality of ART Services in Malawi Nellie Wadonda, Malawi Ministry of Health |
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| 1997 | Using the ART Dispensing Tool to Monitor HIV Drug-Resistance Indicators
Dawn Pereko, Management Science for Heal |
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| WHO HIV Drug Resistance Marco Vitoria, WHO |
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| HIV Drug Resistance Catherine Godfrey, U.S. Government (CDC/NIH) |
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| Session 42 | Going Beyond Indicators: How to Measure Prevention Programs | |||
| Track Responding to Challenges in HIV Prevention |
97 | Measuring the Long-Term Behavioral Impact of Sports-Based HIV Prevention Intervention Led in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Zachary Kaufman, Grassroot Soccer |
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| 133 | Strengthening Program Design and Services: Measuring Products and Services Performance
Through GIS Application: Pilot Study in Kinondoni, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Jovina Tibenda, T-MARC |
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| 696 | Measuring HIV Prevention Program Outcomes Using Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) Patrick Gitonga, Samaritan’s Purse |
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| 1704 | Using Qualitative and Quantitative Studies to Better Understand Key Drivers of Multiple Concurrent
Partnerships in Mozambique Dvora Joseph, Population Services International |
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| 1744 | The Quality of Behavior Change Communication in HIV Prevention Programs in Namibia
and Recommendations for Strengthening: Results of Participatory Assessments among
Implementing Partners Elizabeth Burleigh, Communication for Change (C-Change) Namibia |
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