EVENT PROGRAM 

The Committee are pleased to announce the program overview is now available. This will continue to be updated as more details are confirmed, please note this is subject to change. Please be aware the program is set as AEST. 

Paediatric HIV & Hepatitis Theme Day (LIVE)
9:00 - 9.10      |Introduction  
                           Prof John Ziegler
9.10 - 9.15      |Welcome to country 

Prevention of HIV mother-to-child-transmission and breastfeeding
9.15 - 9.55     | Update on prevention of mother-to-child transmission and breastfeeding
                           Dr Lynne Mofenson, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS, Foundation, United States
9.55 - 10.10   | APSU perinatal HIV update
                           Dr Laila Khawar, Kirby Institute, UNSW
10.10 - 10.15 | Update on breastfeeding recommendations
                            A/Prof Pamela Palasanthiran, Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick
10.15 - 10.30 | Practical perspectives to breastfeeding
                            Ms Geraldine Dunne, Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick
10.30 -11.00  |  Morning Break

HIV and our neighbours
11.00 - 11.30 | Timor-Leste experience
                            A/Prof Clare Nourse, Queensland Children’s Hospital
11.30 - 12.00 | Pacific experience
                            A/Prof Catherine O’Connor, United Nations Development Programme
12.00 - 12.30 | Integrating mental health in Thai HIV services
                            Dr Wipaporn Natalie Songtaweesin, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
12.30 -13.30  | Lunch break

Management of hepatitis C for children and mothers
13.30 - 14.00 | Up-to-date management of hepatitis C in children and adolescents
                            Dr Brett Ritchie, Women’s and Children’s  Hospital
14.00 - 14.30 | Experience in managing children and families with hepatitis C
                            Ms Brooke Andersen, Children’s Hospital Westmead
14.30 - 15.00 | HIV and viral hepatitis – a family perspective
                            Prof Christy Newman, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW
15.00 - 15.30 | Afternoon break

Emerging antiretroviral regimens and monitoring strategies
 15.30 - 15.50 | Antiretroviral therapeutic drug monitoring
                            Ms Nicolette Graham, Queensland Children’s Hospital
15.50 - 16.20  |  Integrase inhibitors – evolving evidence in children
                              Speaker to be announced, Perth Children’s Hospital
16.20 - 17.00   | Long-acting and dual agent antiretroviral regimens
                              Dr Anna Turkova, University College London, United Kingdom
17.00 - 17.15   | Closing remarks
                              A/Prof Pamela Palasanthiran, Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick