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Session 1: HIV in Asia and the Pacific

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Paediatric Theme Day
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
8:55 AM - 10:40 AM
C4.9

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Chairs:
Pamela Palasanthiran, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick
Angela Kelly-Hanku, Kirby Institute


Speaker

Binowee Bayles
Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council (MLALC)

Welcome to country

9:00 AM - 9:05 AM

Biography

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Dr Adam Bartlett
Staff Specialist
Sydney Children's Hospital

Introduction

9:05 AM - 9:10 AM

Biography

Adam is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist at Sydney Children's Hospital and a Senior Research Fellow at the Kirby Institute. He sits on the ASHM HIV National Advisory Group, ASHM HIV Guidelines Committee and US Pediatric HIV Guidelines Committee. Adam also works with the UNDP and ACTUP-PNG managing perinatal and paediatric HIV, syphilis and Hepatitis B across PNG and the Pacific.
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Professor Thanyawee Puthanakit
Professor
Chulalongkorn University

Perinatal HIV and HIV Drug Resistance in Asia and the Pacific

9:10 AM - 9:35 AM

Biography

Thanyawee Puthanakit, MD, MHS is a professor of pediatric infectious disease specialist at Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She is a leader in pediatric HIV treatment and care in Asia. She has experienced conducting research in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines including collaborates with TREAT Asia research program. Her research focuses on pediatric and adolescent HIV treatment and elimination of perinatal HIV transmission and reduction in new cases of adolescent infection. She has published more than 200 publications. She serves as scientific committee for PENTA-ID Network and active committee member of the International AIDS Society.
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Assoc. Professor Angela Kelly-Hanku
Kirby Institute / PNG IMR

Combatting Perinatal HIV Transmission in Papua New Guinea

9:35 AM - 9:55 AM

Biography

Originally trained in anthropology and sociology, Associate Professor Angela Kelly-Hanku is the Head of the Global Health Equity and Justice Research Group, within the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales. Her research in the Pacific, South East Asia and Australia is driven by a commitment to person-centred, strengths-based approaches that advocate for equity and inclusion and decolonising research practices to find social and public health solutions to some of our greatest issues. This includes issues of gender and sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, young people, and gender-based violence but also infectious diseases of global significance such as HIV, TB, STIs, Hepatitis B, HPV and cervical cancer and COVID-19.
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Dr Rachel Devi
Head Of Family Health Unit
Fiji Family Health Unit

Evolving Paediatric HIV Systems in Fiji

9:55 AM - 10:10 AM

Biography

Dr Rachel Devi, Head of Family Health Unit, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Fiji. As a public health specialist in Fiji, I graduated from the Fiji School of Medicine in 2007 with an MBBS and, in 2017, from the University of Sydney with a master’s in international public health. I am currently pursing my PhD at the University of New South Wales. I have worked in various roles within the Ministry of Health for the past 17 years and in my current position for the past three years.
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Sr Bernadino da Cruz
Regional Supervisor and Vocal Point of Training of Tuberculosis Programme
Ministry of Health Timor Leste

Perinatal and Paediatric HIV in Timor-Leste

10:10 AM - 10:25 AM

Biography

MSc in Global Health and Development, mayor in National Health Policy from Hanyang University (South Korea), 9 Years of experience as district TB coordinator starting from 2001, 10 years working with the National TB program as regional supervisor; training officer, research coordinator and vocal Point for Procurement and Supply Management, District Supervisor for Leprosy program during 3 years. Currently work as National HIV/Hepatitis and STI program from 2020
Paediatric Special Theme Day

Questions & Discussion

10:25 AM - 10:30 AM

Biography


Chair

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Angela Kelly-Hanku
Kirby Institute / PNG IMR

Pamela Palasanthiran
Head Of Department
Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick

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