National AIDS Conference in Delhi. April 2-4, 2005

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1st National Conference of AIDS Society of India April 2-4, 2005: New Delhi

" Share & Care "

The capital city of Delhi will have major event in the field of HIV/AIDS from

April 2-4, 2005 with several renowned experts and researchers, at a crucial time

when India is grappling with one of the highest numbers of HIV/AIDS cases in the

world, with late but increasing level of commitment to fight AIDS, the

availability of anti-HIV drugs at cheaper prices but threatened by patent laws

and the government roll-out for free HIV treatment to 100,000 HIV patients but

ill-equipped doctors.

The AIDS Society of India along with National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO)

and US Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS)/National Institutes of Health

(NIH) and several national and international agencies, is co-sponsoring the " 1st

National Conference of AIDS Society of India: ASICON-2005 " at The Ashok in New

Delhi. World-renowned faculty in HIV medicine and researchers from around the

globe and India will share the state-of-the-art knowledge, their insights,

experience and vision both in plenary and interactive sessions that will be

useful in enhancing our capacity to offer quality care to HIV infected

individuals in India.

Nearly 700 doctors from different specialties dealing with HIV and researchers

are expected to be participating in the deliberations of the conference that

will have more than 100 oral presentations and 70 poster presentations.

Among other dignitories, US Ambassador in India Dr. Mulford; , Union Minister

for Youth and Sports Shri Sunil Dutt and Union Minister for Health Dr. Ambumani

Ramadoss will address the conference on April 2, 3 and 4 respectively.

Sponsors: ASICON 2005 is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Health & Family

Welfare, GOI; Dept. of Science and Technology, NACO; ICMR; YRG-Care and Peoples

Health Organisation (India) from India and DHHS/NIH (USA); UNAIDS; International

AIDS Society; USAID; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Intl. AIDS Vaccine

Initiative (IAVI) and similarly pharma giants Cipla, Emcure, Roche, Aurobindo,

Ranbaxy, Alkem and Diagnostic companies Beckman Coulter and Becton Dickinson,

Abbott Laboratories.

Faculty: Eminent world-renowned international and national faculty shall

participate in this conference. Some of original researchers and ace clinicians

are part of the conference. The International faculty includes renowned authors

of the textbook on HIV/AIDS Management Bartlett and Gallant (s

Hopkins University, USA). Bollinger, Andrade, Celentano,

(JHU, USA); Freedburg (Harvard); Mark Dybul (US Global AIDS

Coordinator); Mayer, Carpenter and Flanigan (Brown

University, USA); Paolo Miotti (NIH); Mark Wainberg (McGill University, Canada),

Dr. H. Fleury (France). Kimberley Brouwer, (UCSD, USA); ); Tim Mastro, Lihua

Xiao and Bharat Parekh (CDC, USA); Adelmann (Switzerland); Suzanne Crowe

(Mcfarlane Burnett Institute) and Wotherspoon from Australia; Constance

Corrino, USAID; Harriet (Emory Univ.,USA); Swarup Sarkar (UNAIDS,

Bangkok); Nirupama Sista, FHI, USA; Farthing (LA,USA); Katzenstein

(Stanford,USA); Sunanda Gaur (MDNJ,USA); Lehrman (DAIDS/NIH, USA); Dr

Paramita Sudharto (WHO-SEARO); Robbin Shattock,London; Representative of the

Pharma and other Industries; Media and several key national figures from

HIV/AIDS field.

Topics/Issues: Following key issues will be discussed in the conference;

Epidemiology of HIV infection; Role of Donors in response to Global HIV/AIDS

epidemic; Immuno-pathogenesis of HIV disease, Issues in HIV diagnosis, Incidence

assays, Monitoring HIV-infected persons, Quality Assurance for laboratories;

Opportunistic infections and Malignancies in HIV/AIDS; Antiretroviral Therapy

(ART); Drug resistance in HIV/AIDS; HIV Management in Women and Children;

Prevention, Behavioral, Social Challenges; HIV in special populations;

Principles of HIV vaccines, challenges in development; HIV vaccine trials in

India; Linking prevention with care

Who would Attend? Practicing Doctors/Clinicians with experience and/or interest

in HIV/AIDS, Clinical Epidemiologists, Researchers, representatives of

organizations/ institutions involved in HIV care and funding agencies from India

and those with interest in India from abroad, nearly 700 delegates will attend

the Conference from 2-4 April, 05.

The ASICON-2005 is expected to answer several questions of the doctors managing

HIV/AIDS in India which will ultimately result in better care for those

afflicted with HIV disease leading to better quality and enhancement of the

lives of those people at affordable cost, yet with international standard.

Co-chairs, ASICON-2005

Dr. Suniti , Chennai / Dr.Ishwar S.Gilada, Mumbai

Conference Secretariat:

Unison Medicare & Research Centre; Maharukh Mansion, Alibhai Premji Marg, Mumbai

- 400 007; E-mail: asicon@... ; ihoaids@...; Tel. +91-(22)

23061616; Fax: -23864433 and 23000016; Conference Website: www.india-aids.org

Temporary Secretariat: Hotel Ashok, Delhi, from 31 March to 4 April, 2005

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Dr.I.S.Gilada

E-mail: <ihoaids@...>