International conference on securing treatment and care for PLWHAs

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INTERNATIONAL MEETING: " SECURING TREATMENT AND CARE FOR PEOPLE

LIVING WITH HIV LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES: WHERE ARE WE NOW? "

January, 21-24 2004.

We are pleased to announce that the International Meeting SECURING

TREATMENT and CARE for PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV – Low-income countries:

where are we now? will be held in Florence from January, 21-24 2004

The Meeting will be organized by the Italian Society of Infectious

and Tropical Diseases (SIMIT) and other prestigious international

institutions, and will provide an opportunity to discuss topical

scientific issues, without overlooking the importance of the social

impact of the disease.

Delegates from UN Agencies (UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, WHO), the

Canadian International Development Agency, the European Commission,

and acknowledged leaders from reference Centres, Institutions and

Organizations, either government or not, worldwide (among which I am

pleased to remember here the International AIDS Society, the

International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention, the Global Health Council, the London

School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Liverpool School of

Tropical Medicine, Family Health International, the Istituto

Superiore di Sanità, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, the New

York Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine, Médecins Sans

Frontières, the Harvard School of Public Health....) have confirmed

their active involvement in the Meeting.

This Meeting represents an unique opportunity for discussing such

issues as:

The strategies and problems of prevention (focusing also on

nutritional aspects and on the availability of microbicides of

appropriate cost/efficiency);

The simplification of courses of antiretroviral treatments (also in

relation to problems of continuity);

Viable strategies for the prevention and treatment of opportunistic

infections;

The control of coinfections (viral hepatitis and other sexually

transmitted infections, intestinal infections and parasitoses,

tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy);

The state and prospects of research into antiretroviral vaccines;

Viable strategies for the permanent training of health care workers;

Problems relating to the accessibility and availability of vaccines

for bacterial and viral infections, of antiretroviral drugs, as well

as of drugs for associated pathologies (including palliative

treatments);

The global impact of the epidemic in terms of mortality, breakdown of

the national social and productive fabrics, dynamics and temporal

forecasts within the human contexts;

The connections among the scientific, social and political aspects

aiming at translation of purposes into action.

The ultimate aim of this extremely important and highly prestigious

Meeting is to find a constructive answer in fighting HIV in poor-

income countries.

Dr. e Dionsio

Congress Chairman

Director, Infectious Diseases Operative Unit

Presidio Ospedaliero di Pistoia – USL 3

Piazza Giovanni XXIII

51100 Pistoia, Italy

Please contact the Organizing Secretariat for further information:

Agnese Germino

Phone: +39 (0)55 2462248

Fax: +39 (0)55 2342929

E-mail: Agnese.germino@...

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