Alliance for Public Health activities at AIDS-2016

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Alliance for Public Health (Ukraine) is implementing one of the biggest key populations response programs that reversed the pace of HIV epidemic in Ukraine. Its experience informed the development of a number of EECA programs as well as responses to drug use driven epidemics in East Africa and Asia. We will be sharing our experiences during AIDS 2016: oral presentations, workshops, poster presentations, 2 booths will be ran during the conference:

SATURDAY, JULY 16

11:30 – 13:00. Oral Presentation: Leaving No One Behind – Prioritizing Key Populations. (Pavlo Smyrnov)

Place: International Conference Center (PEPFAR, pre-meeting).

TUESDAY, JULY 19

12:30 – 14:30. Poster presentation: Economic analysis of effectiveness of investments in HIV prevention services among key population groups in Ukraine (Tetyana Salyuk)

Place: Poster Exhibition area, First Level (by the Arena Entrance)

14:00 – 15:00. Oral presentation followed by moderated discussion: Harm Reduction Academy learning course: How to learn the decades of experience in harm reduction in 3 weeks? (Tetyana Deshko)

Place: HIV/AIDS Alliance Exhibition Booth at AIDS 2016 (#374)

15:00 – 16:00. Oral presentation followed by moderated discussion: SyrEx Cloud: Leave the paperwork behind! Client tracking software (Pavlo Smyrnov)

Place: HIV/AIDS Alliance Exhibition Booth at AIDS 2016 (#374)

18:30 – 20:30. Oral Presentation: Leaving No One Behind: How to Bring Key Population HIV Services to Scale (Tetyana Deshko)

Place: International Conference Center, Session Room 7

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20

9:00-10:00. Workshop “EECA Regional Platform: TA needs of PLWHA in Eastern Europe and ways to address them for better decision making”. Discussion of Assessment results (Kateryna Maksymenko).

Place: Global village: the European Networking Zone

12:30 – 14:30. Poster presentations:

· EECA Regional Platform: building regional civil society partnership for better decision making in HIV/TB response (Kateryna Maksymenko).

· Using mixed-methods to understand HIV treatment cascade among opioid agonist therapy (OAT) patients and people who inject drugs (PWIDs) in five Ukrainian cities (Alyona Mazhnaya)

Place: Poster Exhibition area, First Level (by the Arena Entrance)

12:50 – 12:55. GV Film screening. Lost Childhood: urgent response needed in order to save lives of adolescents who use drugs (Iryna Zharuk)

Place: GV Film screening room.

16:30 – 18:00. Oral Presentation: The Development and Pricing of HIV Medications and Diagnostics: Recent Controversies and Priorities for the Future (Andriy Klepikov)

Place: International Conference Center, Session Room 6.

18:00 – 20:00. Oral Presentation: Development Assistance for Health in the Age of Inequality: What does it mean for the AIDS response? (Andriy Klepikov)

Place: The Southern Sun Elangeni & Maharani, 63 Snell Parade

THURSDAY, JULY 21

12:30 – 14:30. Poster presentations:

· HIV counseling and testing decreases risk of HIV seroconversion among people who inject drugs in Ukraine (Tetyana Salyuk)

· Implementation and validation of PIMA CD4 program in Ukraine (Alyona Shost)

Place: Poster Exhibition area, First Level (by the Arena Entrance)

14:30 – 16:00. Oral Presentation: Community’s Role in the Health System. (Andriy Klepikov).

Place: International Conference Center, Session Room 11.

14:00-14:45. Session “TA needs and ways to address them for better involvement of key affected communities into decision making in the area of HIV/TB response in EECA: Assessment results”. (Kateryna Maksymenko).

Place: Global Village: Global Fund Networking Zone

We will be present in 2 booths during the entire conference:

· International HIV/AIDS Alliance Exhibition Booth #374

· Alliance for Public Health, Booth №518

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