HIV & AIDS: Theme C Symposium - Addressing access and inequity in Australia’s HIV prevention response
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| Monday, November 6, 2017 |
| 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
| Bradman Theatrette |
Details
This session will discuss Australia’s current HIV prevention response, identify where there are gaps in access and equity and strategies to address these gaps.
The learning objectives to be achieved are:
• Greater awareness of the policy and funding response required for an effective prevention response
• Increased understanding of current epidemiological gaps in the Australia’s HIV prevention response
• New knowledge from stakeholders on where inequity lies
• Increased awareness of how health services can response to address access issues
• Increased understanding of the complexities of ensuring vulnerable populations have access to prevention tools
• Greater knowledge on interventions overseas to address access/equity gaps that could applied in Australia
Speaker
Adj A/prof Darryl O'Donnell
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Federation Of AIDS Organisations
Minding The Gap Between Ambition And Delivery: A Blueprint To Virtually Eliminate HIV Transmission In Australia
2:00 PM - 2:10 PMBiography
Darryl O’Donnell is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations, which leads Australia’s community response to HIV and advocates for effective responses to HIV in Asia and the Pacific.
Professor Andrew Grulich
Professor and Program Head HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program
Kirby Institute
Current gaps in Australia’s HIV prevention response
2:10 PM - 2:20 PMBiography
Professor Andrew Grulich is a medical epidemiologist and Public Health Physician. He is head of the HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program at the Kirby Institute. He is a past president of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, a past member of the International AIDS Society Governing Council, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. His research group studies the transmission and prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections in homosexual men, and the links between infection, immune function and cancer in people with HIV.
Prof Christy Newman
Professor
Centre For Social Research In Health
How ‘equitable access’ is conceptualised by key stakeholders in the Australian HIV response
2:20 PM - 2:35 PMBiography
Christy Newman is Associate Professor and HIV co-convenor at the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney. She has worked on qualitative and multi-method studies investigating social aspects of HIV and sexual health for the last 14 years.
Dr Phillip Read
Director
Kirketon Road Centre
How can health services increase access to prevention?
2:35 PM - 2:50 PMBiography
Dr Phillip Read is the Director of the Kirketon Road Centre, a primary health care facility in Kings Cross involved in the prevention, treatment and care of HIV and other transmissible infections among people who inject drugs, sex workers and "at-risk" young people.
Dr Darren Russell
Associate Professor
Cairns Sexual Health Service
Complexities of providing prevention tools to a vulnerable population; Lessons from an outbreak in young Indigenous people in FNQ
2:50 PM - 3:05 PMBiography
Dr Darren Russell is the Director of Sexual Health at Cairns Hospital. He is also the Principal Investigator for the Queensland HIV prevention study – ‘QPrEPd’. His interests include Indigenous sexual health, transgender health, and the elimination of Hepatitis C infection and HIV transmissions in Australia.
Professor Jeffrey Klausner
Top
Ucla
Interventions internationally which have reduced access gaps
3:05 PM - 3:20 PMBiography
Dr. Jeffrey D. Klausner is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Klausner is a leading researcher in infectious diseases, and frequently serves as an advisor to the CDC, NIH, and WHO.
Q&A
Q&A
3:20 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
