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2A. HIV Abstracts Clinical Management - Enhancing the Care of Women with HIV

Tracks
Track 1
Monday, September 16, 2024
11:40 AM - 1:10 PM
Pyrmont Theatre

Details

Chair:
Louise Owen, Statewide Sexual Health Service Tasmania
Kirsty Machon Positive Women Victoria


Speaker

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Dr Monica Gandhi
Professor Of Medicine
University Of California, San Francisco (ucsf)

HIV and Women

11:40 AM - 11:55 AM

Biography

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also the Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and the Medical Director of the HIV Clinic ("Ward 86") at San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on HIV treatment and prevention optimization, long-acting ART and PrEP, HIV and women, and adherence measurement and interventions.
Ms Brooke Dickson
Papua New Guinea and Pacific Program Manager
ASHM

Developing tools for Mentor Mothers to support effective education and counselling to reduce HIV, Syphilis and Hepatitis B transmission from mother to baby in PNG.

11:55 AM - 12:07 PM

Biography

Brooke Dickson is a Registered Nurse and has a Masters of International Public Health. Her current focus on delivering Sexual and Reproductive health programs in low resource settings. Brooke has worked on health system strengthening and clinical workforce development programs throughout Australia and the Pacific for the last 15 years.
Dr Rachel Burdon
Deputy Director
RPA Sexual health

Women living with HIV in Australia: identifying and managing their reproductive, age-related, and psychosocial health needs in a metropolitan sexual health service

12:07 PM - 12:19 PM

Biography

Dr Rachel Burdon is currently a Senior Staff Specialist and is the Deputy Director for the Sydney Local Health District Department of Sexual Health Medicine. Prior to this she worked as a GP in a high HIV caseload general practice in Darlinghurst and has worked internationally for NGOs and multilateral partners to support the scale up of HIV prevention, care and treatment services in Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. She is passionate about providing client centred, equitable and accessible HIV and Sexual Health Prevention, Care and Treatment services.
Dr Patricia Griffiths
Infectious Diseases Advanced Trainee
Alfred Health

Cervical cancer screening practices in women living with HIV at a large hospital site

12:19 PM - 12:31 PM

Biography

Dr Griffiths is an Infectious Diseases Advanced Trainee at Alfred Health
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Dr Sushena Krishnaswamy
Infectious Diseases Physician
Monash Health

Accumulating Safety Data for Antiretroviral Therapy in Pregnancy: Increasing reporting to the Antiretroviral Pregnancy

12:31 PM - 12:43 PM

Biography

Sushena is an infectious diseases physician and clinician researcher at Monash Health, Royal Womens Hospital, and Monash University. She has a special interest in infections and antimicrobial stewardship in women's health
HIV&AIDS 2024

Questions & Discussion

12:43 PM - 1:10 PM

Biography


Chair

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Kirsten Machon
Executive Officer
Positive Women Victoria

Louise Owen
Consultant
Statewide Sexual Health Service Tasmania

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