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Theme C Proffered Paper Session 6: Impact of Public PrEP Programs

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Wednesday, September 26, 2018
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Grand Lodge (Level 1)

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Dr Christine Selvey
Medical Epidemiologist
Communicable Diseases Branch, Health Protection NSW, NSW Health

Rapid Reduction In HIV Diagnoses After Targeted Prep Implementation In NSW, Australia: The Epic-Nsw Study

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

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Dr Christine Selvey heads up surveillance of blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections for Health Protection NSW. She is the Chair of the National BBv/STI Surveillance Subcommittee of the Communicable Diseases Network Australia. Christine has worked for various state governments in communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control since 1998.
Ms Ruthy McIver
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Sydney Sexual Health Centre

Nurse-Led Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): A Non-Traditional Model To Provide HIV Prevention In A Resource Constrained, Pragmatic Clinical Trial

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

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Ruthy McIver is a Clinical Nurse Consultant at Sydney Sexual Health Centre where she coordinates clinical research and quality improvement projects.
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Mr Michael Traeger
Postgraduate Student
Burnet Institute

Changes In Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Gay And Bisexual Men After Enrolling In The PrEPX Implementation Study

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

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Michael is a research assistant working in the disease elimination program at the Burnet Institute, with a focus on STI and blood-borne virus epidemiology and surveillance.
Hamish Hamish McManus
Research Fellow
Kirby Institute

STI Trends In A Cohort Of High-Risk Gay And Bisexual Men Before And After Rapid Scale Up Of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis In New South Wales, Australia: The EPIC-NSW Study

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

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Hamish is a statistician in the Surveillance, Evaluation and Research Program with research focussing on longitudinal analysis of HIV and STIs. He has particular interest in national health surveillance using both purpose built registries and notifications data, as well as the innovative use of other national datasets.
Dr Mohamed Hammoud
Research Fellow & Research Group Leader
Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney

Initiation Of PrEP Among Gay And Bisexual Men Who Met The Eligibility Criteria For PrEP

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

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Mo is a Senior Research Manager at the Kirby Institute. He was responsible for the design and implementation of an automated cohort management systems which was adapted for use in two Australian PrEP trials, EPIC-NSW and PrEPIT, and the national drug study ‘Flux’ which is currently expanding to New Zealand.
Q&A

Q&A

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

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Chair

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Benjamin Bavinton
Senior Research Fellow
Kirby Institute

Chris Williams
Co-Founder
PrEP’d for Change

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