National Conference on Management of HIV / AIDS

[Guest guest]

National Conference on Management of HIV / AIDS in resource

restricted settings.

Jointly organized by :

Indian Association of Sexually Transmitted Diseases & AIDS, Indian

Society of Chest Medicine, Indian Association of Gastroentrology,

API Mumbai Branch, Ottawa University, Jaslok Hospital & Research

Centre etc. Unique feature of the Conference

Bridging partnership between medical faculty and pharmaceutical

companies of India( those concerned with marketing of antiretroviral

therapy, anti TB drugs, anti fungal drugs, interferon etc

Venue: Hotel Taj President, Bombay, India.

Dates: 21st & 22nd February 2004

Preconference workshop

Pre-conference - clinical meeting of interesting HIV patients on

20th February 2004.

Banquet : 21st February 2004 at Taj President Hotel, Bombay

Patrons

F.E. Udwadia, Sukumar Mukherjee, Hoosen Coovadia ( South Africa )

Chairpersons

K. Ramamoorthy, J.C. Kothari & H.G. Desai

Co-Chairpersons: Samir R Shah, Bill Cameron ( Canada ), Atul Patel,

Abraham, Siddharth Shah, Sanjay Pujari (Pune)

Organising Chairperson: J.K.Maniar

Course Director : Milind Nadkar

Scientific Programme co-ordinators

Nalini Shah, Nitin Karnik, Sangeeta Amladi, Chitra Shenoy, Manish

Shah

Organising committee:

Co-chairs :G. L. Telang (Roche), Jaideep Gogtay (CIPLA),

Rodrigues (Abbott ),

Members : Sandeep Saxena ( Ranbaxy), Sushil Shah ( Metropolis), H.R.

Balaji (Citadel) Aurbindo Biotech Ltd. Imunus Division), many more

to join

Topics to be discussed

·HIV & tuberculosis

·Management of opportunistic events

·HIV and hepatitis co-infection

·HIV associated malignancies

·Perinatal HIV intervention

·Pediatric AIDS – management

·Antiretroviral therapy - state of art presentation

·Anti retroviral therapy - toxicity and drug interactions

·Recoznising and managing antiretroviral drugs resistance

·Post exposure prophylaxis

·Strategies to develop an HIV clinical research unit

·Vaccine trials in India

·Community home-based care of persons living with HIV /AIDS in

resource poor settings & associated interventions

Guest Speakers :

Gazzard (UK), Anton Pozniak ( UK), Volberding (USA),

Bob Bollinger (USA), Bharat Parekh (USA), H. Mayer (USA),

Subha Raghavan (USA), Mark (UK) , Fisher ( UK), Mark

Bower (UK), Shefali Popat (UK), Rakesh Nandwani ( UK ), Hoosen

Coovadia ( South Africa), Raj Kapila (USA), Bill Cameron (Canada),

Obrien (USA), Ahmed S. Latif (Zimbabwe), S.K. Shankar

(India), Shrikant Bhatt ( Kenya), Souleymane MBOUP (Senegal) Dr.

Jean-Louis Excler ( IAVI ), Carl C. Stecker (USA), Rosenthal

(France), Veerakathy Harindra (UK) & many others to confirm

Nature of participants

Healthcare providers i.e. Physicians engaged in the management of HIV

from India, neighboring countries & developed world. People living

with HIV /AIDS

Proposed registration fees : Rs. 2000.00 per participant before 31st

December 2003 and Rs. 2500.00 after December 2003

Conference Secretariat:

J.K.Maniar, Organising Chairperson,

69/2, Walkeshwar Road,

Bombay 400 006. Fax : 91-22-22083184,

Email : jkmaniar@...

or Milind Nadkar,

Email : milindnadkar@...