5th CCAS HIV/AIDS Workshop 2008

5th CCAS Caribbean
International HIV Workshop
Diagnosis and Clinical Management of HIV and Co-Infections in the Caribbean
August 23rd -29th , 2008
Torarica Hotel, Paramaribo, Suriname



 

 PROGRAMME 

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Saturday 23rd August:

Optional River Trip into Interior of Suriname


Sunday 24th August: Opening Ceremony
Master of Ceremonies: John Codrington, Country Host, MOH Suriname

  • 7:30 pm Prayer
  • 7:35 pm Welcome: Dr. Clive Landis, CCAS President
  • 7:45 pm Welcome: Honorable Celcius Waterberg, Suriname Minister of Health
  • 8:00 pm CCAS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: J. Philip McCoy, President Clinical Cytometry Foundation; Past President Clinical Cytometry Society; Head Flow Cytometry Core, NHLBI - NIH; Head Flow Cytometry Core, Human Immunology Center, NIH, Bethesda MD, USA
  • 8:30 pm Vote of Thanks
  • 8:45 pm Entertainment


Monday 25th August:
SPECIAL MINI-SYMPOSIUM: "HIV Immunopathology and  Disease Monitoring by Flow Cytometry"

  • 8:30 am Cells and molecules of the immune system: innate and adaptive immunity – Peter Lydyard, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK
  • 9:45 am The normal immune response and cell interactions – Peter Lydyard

Coffee break 11 - 11:30 am

  • 11:30 am Immune breakdown in HIV /AIDS – Peter Lydyard
  • 12:15 am The natural history of HIV infection – George Janossy, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK.

Lunch 1:00 - 2:00 pm

  • 2:00 pm Immunology Q & A - Peter Lydyard and George Janossy
  • 2:45 am The principles of flow cytometry – Frank Mandy, National HIV Immunology Laboratory, Ottawa, Canada.

Tea break 3:30 - 4:00 pm

  • 4:00 pm Affordable technologies for CD4 T cell enumeration – Frank Mandy
  • 4:45 pm Measuring CD4+ T cells in HIV infected infants and children – Maurice O'Gorman, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, USA

Cocktails 5:15 pm


Tuesday 26th August: Voluntary Counselling & Testing (VCT); Instrument Choice for CD4 Enumeration

  • 8:30 am Hidden Drivers of HIV in the Community: The Human Side of the Epidemic in the Caribbean – Faith Brebnor, Tobago
  • 9:10 am Voluntary vs. Provider Inititated Counselling and Testing (VCT vs. PMTC): Finding the Right Paradigm – Yvette Irving, Guyana
  • 9:50 am The Role of Private Practice in HIV Testing – Jeanne Beckles, Barbados

Coffee break 10:30 - 11 am

  • 11:00 am BD FACScount: Now With CD4% – Industry talk: speaker TBA, BD Biosciences, USA
  • 11:45 am Performance of the Pan Leuko Gating (PLG) Protocol for CD4+ T Cell Enumeration in an HIV Dedicated Laboratory Facility – Akinola Abayomi, Barbados

Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 pm

  • 1:30 pm High Capacity Accurate And Affordable Measurement of CD4 Absolute And CD% With The CyFlow Technology – Industry Talk: Roland Goehde, Partec, Germany
  • 2:15 pm CD4/CD4% And Hematology All In One – Industry talk: Peter Hansen, PointCare Technologies, USA

Tea break 3:00 - 3:30 pm

  • 3:30 pm CD4 Counts in the Palm of Your Hand – Industry talk: Shelley Hossenlopp, Lab Now, USA
  • 4:15 pm TBA


Wednesday 27th August: The Caribbean Experience

  • 8:30 -10:30 am Caribbean country reports (Chair: Valerie Wilson and Wendy Piggott, MedLabs, Trinidad)

Coffee break 10:30 - 11 am

  • 11:00-12:30 pm Caribbean country reports

Lunch 12:30 - 2:00 pm (Posters)

  • 2:00-4:30 pm CCAS EGM (Caribbean delegates only)

    Agenda Item 1: Selecting host country for the 6th CCAS Workshop, 2009

    Agenda Item 2: Role for MedLabs in implementing quality improvements in HIV/AIDS diagnostics

Social evening 7 pm: dinner & entertainment


Thursday 28th August: Detection of HIV and Co-Infections; Laboratory Best Practice

  • 8:30 am SAMBA: A Point of Care Nucleic Acid Platform for HIV TESTING in Resource-Limited Settings" – Helen Lee, Cambridge University, UK 
  • 9:10 am HIV Viral DNA Testing From Dried Blood Spots – Felipe Rolo, LISIDA Institute, Havana, Cuba
  • 9:50 am The Importance of Laboratory Management Systems in Laboratory Operation – Valerie Wilson, MedLabs, Trinidad

Coffee break 10:30 - 11 am

  • 11:00 am Suriname Protocol For Well Prepared Conception in HIV Positive Couples – A Grunberg, Stichting Lobi, Suriname
  • 11:45 am HIV and Reproduction: From Taboo to Evidence Based Management – S Vreden, University Hospital Paramaribo, Suriname

Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 pm (Posters)

  • 1:30 pm Detection of STIs and Opportunistic Infections in HIV Laboratories – Wendy Piggott, MedLabs, Trinidad
  • 2:15 pm Histoplasmosis in HIV: Topics of Diagnosis and Treatment – Florence Hubert, Cayenne, French Guiana

Tea break 3 - 3:30 pm

  • 3:30 pm Where Reality Hits Home(s): HIV-Related Opportunistic Infections, Discord and Mobility – Christoph Larsen, synaLinQ Consulting, Vietnam
  • 4:15 pm Accreditation of Laboratories in the Caribbean – Wendy Piggott, MedLabs, Trinidad


Friday 29th August: SPECIAL MINI-SYMPOSIUM: "Clinical Management of HIV/AIDS Patients Receiving HAART Therapy"

  • 8:30 am Current Principles of HAART Therapy – Réjean Thomas, Clinique Médicale L'Actuel, Montreal, Canada
  • 9:10 am Managing the Side Effects and Drug Interactions of ART – Martin Duquette, Clinique Médicale L'Actuel, Montreal, Canada
  • 9:50 am Increasing Incidence of Resistance: the Perspective From Poor or Moderate Resource Settings – speaker TBA, Amsterdam, Holland.

Coffee break 10:30 - 11 am

  • 11:00 am Impact and Metabolic Side Effects of ART in the ERA of the Metabolic Syndrome – Peter Reiss, Amsterdam, Holland
  • 11:45 am Strategies used by Fame Pereo Institute In Its Fight Against AIDS – Claude Aline Leveille, Haiti 

Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 pm

  • 1:30 pm A Team Concept of HIV Management – Georges Dos Santos, Centre Hospitaliér et Universitaire de Fort-De-France, Martinique
  • 2:15 pm Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) at Care and Treatment Sites - Thomas M. Minior, Guyana

Tea break 3:30 - 4 pm

  • 4:00 pm HIV, ART and the Male Genital Tract – S Lowe, Maastricht, Holland
  • 4:45 pm The Caribbean Public Health Agency - Valerie Wilson, MedLabs, Trinidad

Farewell 5:30