ICAP Collaborative PMTCT and Pediatric HIV Strategic Planning Workshop 2008

Monday, April 14 (Plenary Session)

ART Initiated Before 12 Weeks Reduces Early Mortality in Young HIV-infected Infants: Evidence from the Children with HIV Early Antiretroviral Therapy (CHER) Study (Mark Cotton)

 

Early Antiretroviral Treatment for HIV-Infected Infants (Elaine Abrams and Mark Cotton)

 
 

Session 1

Engaging pregnant women in long-term HIV care and treatment: Models, achievements and challenges (Esayas Okubamichael)

How to identify lost clients/patients and bring them back into care (Tsigereda Gadisa)

 

Knowledge for success: Better services through better information (Veronicah Mugisha)

 

Pediatric HIV testing: An entry point into family centered services (non-early infant diagnosis) (Sania Shafi)

HIV disclosure throughout the pediatric life stages: Better practices, approaches, and tools (Ruby Fayorsey and Tayla Colton)

 
 
Session 2

Integrating HIV and family planning services for women living with HIV: In search of optimum models of care (Landry Tsague)

 

Early infant diagnosis: from the laboratory to implementation phase (Redempta Mbatia)

Men, men, men: An entry point into family-centered services (Arabang Letebele)

 

Motivating and building the skills of health care workers and teams when you have limited resources (Raphael Ntumy)

Treatment failure in HIV-infected children (Stephen Arpadi)

HIV disclosure throughout the pediatric life stages: Better practices, approaches, and tools (Ruby Fayorsey and Tayla Colton)

 


Session 3

Designing and implementing peer support programs to support PMTCT services (Xoliswa Keke)

Optimizing PMTCT services during labor and delivery: implementing a comprehensive package of care (Gilbert Tene)

 

Enhancing a district/provincial level team approach to optimize operationalization and uptake of family-centered services (Dorace Trottier)

 

CROI updates: ART for the prevention of postnatal MTCT (clinical audience) (Elaine Abrams)

Increasing pediatric care and treatment uptake at ICAP supported sites: Scaling down to scale up (Biola Aomreore)

Achievements and future directions in pediatric adherence (Tayla Colton)

 
Tuesday, April 15 (Plenary Session)

Prevention, Care, and Treatment of the HIV-infected Woman of Reproduction Age and Her Family (Elaine Abrams)

 

The Experience of ICAP-MZ Initiating PMTCT Services with More Complex PMTCT Regimens (Isabelle Yersin)

 

HAART and the Pregnant Woman: Providing HAART within the MCH Setting; Experience from ICAP-Lesotho (Raphael Ntumy)

 

Implementing Decentralized CD4 Testing System for HIV+ Pregnant Women: Experience from ICAP-Rwanda (Landry Tsague)

 

Plenary 2 - Prevention, Care, and Treatment of the HIV-infected Woman of Reproductive Age and Her Family (Session Notes and Summary)

 
 
Session 4

Scaling down to scale up: taking treatment services for pregnant women to primary health centers (Joris Vandelanotte)

HIV and infant feeding: in context of infant formula availability (Lebogang Schultz)

Achievements and future directions in pediatric adherence (Tayla Colton)

 

Keeping clients in care for life (Beatrice Wangechi)

 

Where there are no/few doctors to care for the HIV-infected child? (Maria Grazia Lain)

 

CROI updates: ART for the prevention of postnatal MTCT (for program and nonclinical audience) (Elaine Abrams)

 
Wednesday, April 16 (Plenary Session)

Family and Community: Transforming Ideas into Practice (Robin Flam)

 

Community Strategies to Support HIV Care for Pregnant Women and HIV-infected Children (Eliud Mwangi)

 

Peer Educators: A Link to the Family (Mihayo Bupamba)

 

Plenary 3 - Families and Communities: Transforming Ideas into Practice
(Session Notes and Summary)

 
     
Session 5

Community PMTCT: What can we do outside the health facility to better meet the needs of women and children? (Brenda D’mello)

 

Delivering quality clinical services to HIV-infected women in the reproductive age with minimal human resources: Methods and limitations (Charles Mugizi)

 

HIV and infant feeding: When breastfeeding is the primary option (Joris Vandelanotte and Floriza Gennari)

Community and facility PMTCT linkages in settings with high home deliveries (Lawal Ismail)

Pediatric TB/HIV co-infection: Where are we one year later? Where should we be going now? (Ben Marias)

 
Session 6

Supporting and following up pregnant women who deliver in non-clinical settings (Tsegaye Awano)

 

Early infant diagnosis: moving beyond the laboratory (Esther Ngocho)

Male circumcision: Linking prevention to PMTCT and family-focused care (Elaine Abrams)

Organizing your in-country ICCPSPW (Tayla Colton and Cristiane Costa)

 

Not a child and not an adult: What ICAP can do to meet the needs of adolescents (Nancy Briggs)