Sunday 26th August
Registration 11.00 am – 5.00 pm
Opening Ceremony
Master of Ceremonies: Vera Layne, President, Caribbean Cytometry & Analytical Society (CCAS)
6:30 pm: National Anthem of St. Lucia
6:35 pm: Opening Prayer
6:40 pm: Welcome: Clive Landis, Chairman, CCAS
6:50 pm: Greetings: César Núñez, Director UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Latin America and the Caribbean
7:10 pm: CCAS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: Addressing the Nexus of Risk Behavior and Gender Inequalities in the Continuum of Care Model for Women – Wendee Wechsberg, University of North Carolina, USA
7:50 pm: Vote of Thanks: Valerie Wilson. CMLF
8:00 pm: Entertainment / cocktails
Monday 27th August
Expert Summit Session 1: Cure
Chair: Clive Landis
8:30 am: Biological mechanisms underlying HIV-1 eradication: lessons learnt from the ‘Mississippi baby’ – Deborah Persaud, Johns Hopkins, USA
9:15 am: Towards treatments to cure HIV infection: developing to tools for HIV latency reversal and clearance – David Margolis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Coffee break 10:00 - 10:30 am
Expert Summit Session 2: Cure 2
Chair: Wendee Wechsberg
10:30 am: The CNS in the Cure– Kevin Robertson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
11:15 am: Blue skies thinking on viral elimination strategies – Phil McCoy, NIH, USA
Lunch 12:00 – 1:00 pm:
Expert Summit Session 3:
Chair: David Margolis
1:00 pm: Detecting, Investigating, and Responding to HIV Transmission Clusters – Mo O’Gorman, University of Southern California, USA
1:45 pm: Elimination of MTCT – Cuba leads the way – TBA
Tea break 2:30 - 3:00 pm
Expert Summit Session 4:Integrated services
Chair: Deborah Persaud
3:00 pm: GHESKIO’S Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Centre – Vanessa Rouzier GHESKIO, Haiti
3:45 pm: Implementation Science of the Women's Health Co-Op in Clinical Care settings: Challenges and Barriers– Wendee Wechsberg, University of North Carolina, USA
4:30 pm End of Day 1
Tuesday 28th August
Expert Summit Session 5: Caribbean Focus
Chair: Eric van Gorp
8:30 am: PreP in the Caribbean: A progress report – Anton Best, Ministry of Health, Barbados
9:15 am: Test, Treat, Defeat in Caribbean Advocacy– Dereck Springer, PANCAP
Coffee break 10:00 - 10:30 am
Expert Summit Session 6: Drug availability
Chair: César Núñez
10:30 am: ARV procurement in the OECS: A success story – Francis Burnett, OECS Pharamceutical Procurement Service, St. Lucia
11:15 am: Drivers of substandard and falsified medicines – Elizabeth Pisani, Ternyata Ltd, UK
Lunch 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Expert Summit Session 7: Judicial Reform
Chair: Elizabeth Pisani
1:00 pm: Judicial reform for the protection of adolescent women in juvenile detention – Alison Denham, University of Oxford, UK
1:45 pm: Successes and challenges of implementing juvenile detention reforms: The Grenada experience – Melisse Ogilvie, Child Protection Authority, Grenada
Tea break 2:30 - 3:00 pm
Expert Summit Session 8
Chair: Mo O’Gorman
3:00 pm: TBA – Cesar Núñez, UNAIDS
3:45 pm: Know your virus – Eric van Gorp, Erasmus MC, Holland
4:30 pm End of Day 2
Wednesday 29th August
Caribbean Country Reports
Chair: Valerie Wilson
8.30 – 10.00 am
Coffee break 10:00 – 10:30 am
Caribbean country reports ... continued
Chair: Valerie Wilson
10.30 – 12.00 am
Lunch 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Caribbean reports: Elimination of mother to child transmission
Chair: Dereck Springer
1:15 – 2:30 pm
Tea Break 2:45 – 3:15 pm
Thursday 30th August
Plenary Session: Latin America and the Caribbean
Chair:
8:30 am: Feedback from the IAS: The Caribbean HIV Care Meeting, Amsterdam 2018 – Clive Landis, The University of the West Indies, Barbados
9:00 am: Caribbean regional strategic framework: beyond 2018 – Derek Springer, PANCAP
9:30 am: Strategies for Elimination if TB and HIV in the OECS – Cleophas D'Auvergne OECS Commission, St. Lucia
Coffee break 10:00 – 10:30 am
Plenary Session: Latin America and the Caribbean
Chair:
10:30 am: The therapeutic value of cannabis in HIV management – Marcus Day, Caribbean Drug and Alcohol Research Institute, St. Lucia
12:00 am:The OECS Health Unit– Carlene Radix, OECS Commission, St. Lucia
12:30 pm: TBA
Lunch 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Plenary Session: Research in Latin America and the Caribbean, continued
Chair:
1:00 pm: Regional Research: abstract - 1
1:30 pm: Regional Research: abstract - 2
2:00 pm: Regional Research: abstract - 3
Tea break 2:30 – 3:00 pm
Plenary Session: Research in Latin America and the Caribbean, continued
3:00 pm: Regional Research: abstract - 4
3:30 pm: Regional Research: abstract - 5
4:00 pm: Regional Research: abstract - 6
4:30 pm: End of Day 4