5th South African HIV Drug Resistance and Treatment Monitoring Workshop, University of the Free State, 27 to 29 October, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

On behalf of the research group for the Free State Initiative on Resistance, Surveillance, and Treatment (FIRST) Study, a research project funded by European Union and the International Development Research Center (IDRC) and the University of the Western Cape CDC/PEPFAR program are pleased to invite you to participate in the 5th South African HIV Drug Resistance and Treatment Monitoring Workshop at the Univerisity of the Free State Medical School, Bloemfontein, South Africa from 27 to 29 October 2010.* Discussion of clinical cases on the 28 and 29 October.

DEADLINE for application: 15 September 2010.

Workshop:
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The workshop programme will follow the same successful format held at the University of the Western Cape in 2008 and at the University of the Free State in 2009 and will include presentations of anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment programmes and clinical cases management in the developing world, including South Africa, Botswana and Brazil.

The workshop is targeted at clinicians, clinical virologists, nurses, medical students and researchers working in the public and private sector who are currently involved in the treatment of patients with ARVs in Southern Africa.

Please submit application forms to Ms Anthea van Blerk:
Tel: +27 21 938-0851, Fax: +27 21 938-0526

Email: Anthea.Van.Blerk@mrc.ac.za

Costs: Attendance at the Workshop is Free*

(*However applicants are responsible for all accommodation and travel costs. A limited number of travel sponsorships will be available to clinicians that can not afford the travel costs and who will contribute to the workshop).

Organizers: Tulio de Oliveira, Chris Seebregts, Cloete van Vuuren, Dewald Steyn, Dominique Goedhals.

Funded by: the University of the Western Cape CDC/PEPFAR Capacity Building Program, The European Union,  The John F. Fogarty International Centre and The Canadian International Development Research Centre.



Workshop Presenters:


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Invited Lecturers and Presenters (Alphabetical order):

Prof. Amilcar Tanuri (MD), Columbia University, U.S., Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dr. Ashraf Grimwood (MD), CEO, Kheth’Impilo, South Africa.

Dr. Carole Wallis, Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, University of the Witwatersrand and the National health Laboratory Service, South Africa.

Prof. Catherine Orrell (MD), Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Prof. Christina Zarowsky, School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Prof. Christopher Hoffmann (MD), John Hopkins School of Medicine, U.S., and Aurum Institute for Health Research, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Prof. Christopher Seebregts, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.

Dr. Cloete van Vuuren (MD), Medical School, University of the Free State, South Africa.

Prof. David Katzenstein (MD), Stanford University Medical School, U.S.

Dr. Diana Dickinson, Private clinician, Gaborone, Botswana.

Dr. Dewald Steyn (MD), Medical School, University of the Free State, South Africa.

Dr. Dominique Goedhals (MD), Medical School, University of the Free State, South Africa.

Dr. Gert van Zyl (MD), Division of Medical Virology, Department Pathology, NHLS, Tygerberg and Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Dr. Gillian Hurt, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Prof. Ian Sanne (MD), University of the Witwatersr and Right to Care, Johannesburg, South Africa.
 
Prof. Jeffrey Klauser (MD), Center for Disease Control (CDC), President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), South Africa, U.S.

Prof. Lynn Morris, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dr. Michelle Gordon, HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Prof. Rami Kantor (MD), Brown University, USA.

Dr. Theresa Rossouw (MD), University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Prof. Thumbi Ndung'u, HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Dr. Tulio de Oliveira, Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and University College of London, U.K.

Prof. Wendy S. Stevens,  Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, University of the Witwatersrand and the National health Laboratory Service, South Africa.

Dr. Ziad El-Khatib, Division of Global Health, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.

SATuRN drug resistance database paper featured in special Nature outlook issue and drug resistance links:




  Nature special HIV/AIDS outlook supplementary publication:

  " This Nature HIV/AIDS Outlook publication shows that there is a renaissance afoot in the field. There is, for instance, hushed talk of something most people had given up on: a cure for HIV/AIDS. With more powerful new drugs and a clearer understanding of the virus’ ways, some researchers are quietly exploring approaches to flush the virus out of the body completely.

  Outside the laboratory, too, there is new hope. Experts are combining every tool at hand — such as mobile telephones, male circumcision and microbicides laced with antiretroviral drugs — to prevent new infections. Even South Africa, that hotbed of AIDS denialism, is finally facing up to its epidemic." Nature HIV/AIDS outlook editorial.

  As part of this special HIV/AIDS publication our correspondence on a public and HIV Drug Resistance Database in southern Africa was made freely available at Nature website.





Datasets for the practical session on the 27 October 2010:

Links to ART treatment and Southern African resistance databases:

Comprehensive links to HIV treatment, ARVs and drug resistance at HIVDB.

Comprehensive information on antiretroviral therapy in South Africa at the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) website.

 Southern African Mirror of the Stanford HIV Drug Resistance Database - A curated public database designed to represent, store, and analyze the divergent forms of data underlying HIV drug resistance.

Southern African Treatment and Resistance Network (SATuRN) website.

The workshop is organized by the South African Medical Research Council, the University of the Free State, the University of the Western Cape and the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Page last updated by Tulio de Oliveira.