AUSTRALASIAN HIV&AIDS CONFERENCE 2013 – MONDAY
7.00am
Registration
8.00am9.50am
HIV&AIDS Conference - Opening Plenary
Room: Auditorium 2
Chairs: Edwina Wright and Steven Skov
Welcome To Country
Dorrie-Anne Raymond, The Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation (LNAC), NT, Australia
Introduction by Convenor
Mr James Ward, Head, Preventive Health, Deputy Director, Baker IDI Central Australia
Opening Address by Government Official
Ms Lia Finnochiaro MLA, Minister for Drysdale
Immune Control of the HIV reservoirs
Professor Brigitte Autran, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France
HIV in Asia: Some priorities for the third decade
Dr Michael Tan, Dean, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines, Philippines
Australia’s first peoples- Where are we in the epidemic? Success, emerging issues and the same persistent issues
Mr James Ward, Head, Preventive Health, Deputy Director, Baker IDI Central Australia, NT, Australia
Morning Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing
Room: Exhibition and Poster Area-Exhibition Hall
Surveillance Reports Launch
Room: Waterfront 2 & 3
Advocacy Corner Program - Video Screenings
Room: Exhibition Hall
Antiretroviral Guidelines
10.45am- Theme C Proffered Paper
10.45am- Satellite Session - AusAID:
10.45amSession
12.15pm
Session: Testing and
12.15pm Strengthening health and
12.15pm
Prevention
community systems for a
scaled up response to HIV
among key affected
populations in Asia and the
Pacific
Room: Auditorium 2
Room: Auditorium 1
Room: Waterfront 2 & 3
Chairs: Geoff Honnor and
Chairs: Steven Skov and
Chairs: Rob Lake and David
Mark Bloch
Martin Holt
Fowler
When to start ART
10.45am- Interest in and informal use
10.45am- Panel Discussion
10.45amJulian Elliot
11.00am
of home HIV tests among
12.15pm Janelle Fawkes, CEO, Scarlet 10.48am
Australian gay men
Alliance
G Prestage
Annie Madden, Executive
Director, Australian Injecting
and Illicit Drug Users League
Levinia Crooks, CEO,
Australasian Society for HIV
Medicine
Omar Syarif, Asia Pacific
Network of People Living with
HIV
8.05am8.10am
8.10am8.15am
8.15am8.20am
8.20am8.50am
8.50am9.20am
9.20am9.50am
9.50am10.45am
10.00am10.30am
10.00am10.30am
10.45am12.15pm
10.45am11.05am
Theme A: Opportunistic
10.45am- Theme D Proffered
infections important in Africa, 12.15pm Paper Session: Pathways;
Asia and Australia. Session
people living with HIV
in Honour of Christopher
Birch
Room: Waterfront 1
Chairs: Suzanne Crowe and
Anthony Jaworowski
Chris Birch inducted into the
Roll of Honour
Suzanne Crowe
Room: Meeting Room 3
Chairs: Heather Worth and
John Rule
10.45am- Breaking out: HIV
11.00am treatment and care when
PLWHIV transition from
custodial settings into the
community
G Hampton and M Merry
11.05am11.25am
What to start
Professor Jean-Michel
Molina, Professor of
Infectious Diseases,
University of Paris Diderot,
Sorbonne Paris Cité - Paris,
INSERM U941, France
11.00am11.15am
Men who take more risks
avoid HIV testing due to
structural barriers
P Keen
10.48am11.18am
11.25am11.45am
Guidance for use of ART in
Australia
Dr Julian Elliot, Head of
Clinical Research, Infectious
Diseases Unit, Alfred
Hospital, Melbourne, VIC,
Australia
11.15am11.30am
Couples HIV Counselling and
Testing (CHCT): Views from
High Risk Populations in
Bali, Indonesia
K Sari
11.18am11.45am
11.30am11.45am
Gay men’s sexual identities
and personal networks
G Prestage
11.45am12.00pm
Are men returning? A cohort
analysis of HIV testing
among MSM in Victoria, 2007
to 2011
M Stoove
12.00pm12.15pm
Combination prevention with
confidence?: A review of
where community HIV health
promotion evaluation is
most, moderately and least
developed
G Brown
11.45am12.15pm
Case discussion
Facilitator: Dr James
McMahon, Infectious
Diseases Physician, Alfred
Hospital and Monash
University, Melbourne, VIC,
Australia
Panel: Jean-Michel Molina,
Philip Read and Mark Bloch
12.15pm1.30pm
12.15pm1.30pm
Immunopathogenesis of the
HIV-TB associated immune
reconstitution inflammatory
syndrome
Professor Robert J Wilkinson,
University of Cape Town,
Imperial College London, and
National Institute for Medical
Research, London
The effects of ART on
immunological markers of
HCV disease in an
Indonesian cohort
Professor Patricia Price, School
of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine, University of Western
Australia, WA, Australia
11.00am11.15am
Unique impacts of HIV
disclosure in health care
and within interpersonal
relationships
L Brener
11.15am11.30am
Ageing with HIV and the
lived realities: Results
from a qualitative study
K McDonald
11.30am11.45am
11.45am12.00pm
Prevalence and types of
Human Papillomavirus in
Human Immunodeficiency
Virus infected females in
Eastern India
A Chourasia
11.45am12.00pm
Bridging two worlds:
Clinician perspectives on
the challenges of
transitioning young people
with HIV into adult care
C Newman
Factors associated with
clinician-patient
discussions regarding
sexual activity and
contraception in
reproductive-aged women
with HIV
Z Stewart
12.00pm12.15pm
Detection, quantitation and
molecular epidemiology of
HTLV-1 in the Northern
Territory
D Chibo
12.00pm- Q&A
12.15pm
Lunch, Exhibition and Poster Viewing
Room: Exhibition and Poster Area-Exhibition Hall
Advocacy Corner Program - Community presentations; Q&A - Including HIV Australia magazine launch: HIV and STIs among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
Room: Exhibition Hall
1.30pm3.00pm
Theme B Proffered Paper
Session: ART in Australasia,
Asia Pacific and Africa
1.30pm3.00pm
Room: Auditorium 2
Chairs: Edwina Wright and
Catrina Ooi
1.30pm1.45pm
1.45pm2.00pm
2.00pm2.15pm
Renal Safety Profile of
Cobicistat-boosted
Elvitegravir compared to
Atripla or Atazanavir plus
Emtricitabine/tenofovir DF
in HIV-1 infected Patients
M Bloch
HIV lipodystrophy in
participants randomised to
lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) +
2-3 nucleoside/nucleotide
reverse transcriptase
inhibitors (N(t)RTIs) or
LPV/r + raltegravir (RAL) as
second-line antiretroviral
therapy: a sub-study of the
SECONDLINE trial
C Moore
Assessment of Predictors
of Viraemia Copy-Years in
People with HIV/AIDS
following Initiation of
Combination Antiretroviral
Therapy
S Wright
Theme C Proffered
Paper Session: Treatment as
Prevention
1.30pm3.00pm
Theme D Symposium:
1.30pmRound table on post MDG’s 3.00pm
- What will happen to HIV?
Session in honour of Dennis
Altman
Room: Waterfront 2 & 3
Chair: Angela Kelly and David
MacLaren
Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Health
Session
1.30pm1.40pm
Overview of the issues on
HIV Post-MDG
Associate Professor Heather
Worth, International HIV
Research Group, School of
Public Health and Community
Medicine, UNSW, NSW,
Australia
1.30pm1.45pm
Mob in the margins: HIV and
injecting drug use in
Victorian Aboriginal
communities
K Byron/ P Waples-Crowe
1.30pm1.50pm
The Poz Action Project
Jo Watson, Executive
Director, The National
Association of People With
HIV Australia (NAPWHA),
Sydney, NSW, Australia
1.40pm1.50pm
Defeating AIDS - Advancing
Global Health
Brianna Harrison; Human
Rights and Law Advisor,
UNAIDS Asia Pacific Regional
Service Team
Is a post-2015 development
agenda still relevant?
Annmaree O’Keeffe AM,
Fellow, Lowy Institute for
International Policy and Local
co-chair, Leadership and
Accountability n Program
Committee, AIDS 2015
1.45pm2.05pm
Uptake of HIV testing in
Aboriginal Community
Controlled Health Services
Associate Professor Rebecca
Guy, The Kirby Institute,
Sydney, NSW, Australia
1.50pm2.10pm
The PLHIV population
picture in Australia
Associate Professor David
Wilson, Head of Surveillance
and Evaluation, The Kirby
Institute, NSW, Australia
NTAHC Testing Campaign
- Evaluation
Mr Craig Cooper, Northern
Territory AIDS and Hepatitis
Council, NT, Australia
2.10pm2.30pm
Australian Temporary
Resident Access Study
(ATRAS) – Year 1 follow up
Kathy Petoumenos, The
Kirby Institute, NSW,
Australia
Room: Auditorium 1
Chairs: John de Wit and Mark
Stoove
1.30pm1.45pm
Few gay men know about
evidence for treatment as
prevention
B Bavinton
1.45pm2.00pm
‘Health seems to come
second’: Views on treatment
as prevention among people
with HIV not currently taking
treatment
C Newman
1.50pm2.00pm
2.00pm2.15pm
Behavioural trends among
Australian gay men pose
increasing challenges for
HIV prevention: Findings
from the Gay Community
Periodic Surveys, 2003-12
M Holt
2.00pm2.10pm
Can international policy
2.05pminstruments inform domestic 2.20pm
HIV policy? Political will into
action: Implementing the UN
Political Declaration on HIV
in Australia
Mr Rob Lake, Executive
Director, Australian Federation
of AIDS Organisations (AFAO),
NSW, Australia
1.30pm3.00pm Room: Waterfront 1
Chairs: Rob Monaghan and
Meggan Grose
Satellite Session:
Sponsored by NAPWHA:
Poz Action - supporting the
Australian HIV response
Room: Meeting Room 3
Chairs: Robert Mitchell and
Bill Whittaker
2.15pm2.30pm
Trends in first line
antiretroviral therapy in
Asia
D Boettiger
2.15pm2.30pm
Undetectable viral load is
2.10pmassociated with increased
3.00pm
unprotected anal intercourse
in gay serodiscordant
couples
B Bavinton
2.30pm2.45pm
Clinical factors associated
with suboptimal adherence
to antiretroviral therapy in
Asia
A Jiamsakul
Analysis of transmitted
drug resistance between
2010 to 2012
J D’Costa
2.30pm2.45pm
Treatment as prevention in
an Australian Setting
I Stratov
3.00pm3.30pm
Consistent and inconsistent
use of non-condom-based
risk reduction strategies
among men in the Gay
Community Periodic Surveys
M Holt
Afternoon Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing
Room: Exhibition and Poster Area-Exhibition Hall
3.00pm3.30pm
Advocacy Corner Program - Open mic sessions
Room: Exhibition Hall
3.30pm5.00pm
Theme D Symposium
Session: MSM in Asia
2.45pm3.00pm
Why Communities Still
Matter: HIV/AIDS and men
who have sex with men in
Asia
Dr Michael Tan, Dean,
College of Social Sciences
and Philosophy, University of
the Philippines, Philippines
HIV risk, knowledge and
2.30pmhealth service access among 2.50pm
Indigenous and non
Indigenous people who inject
drugs in Queensland
Mr James Ward, Deputy
Director, Baker IDI, NT,
Australia
Q&A
2.50pm3.00pm
HIV Futures 7 Report
Jeffrey Grierson, Australian
Research Centre in Sex,
Health and Society, LaTrobe
University, Melbourne, VIC,
Australia
Theme C Symposium
3.30pmSession: Preparing for PrEP. 5.00pm
Session in honour of
Anthony Smith
Theme B/C Symposium:
3.30pmModels of Testing in Australia 5.00pm
Theme A: Activation of the
innate and adaptive
immune systems
Room: Waterfront 2 & 3
Chairs: Dean Murphy and
Colin Batrouney
PrEP implementation: The
how and why
Associate Professor Edwina
Wright, The Alfred Hospital
and the Burnet Institute, VIC,
Australia
Room: Waterfront 1
Chairs: Chris Bourne and Heath
Paynter
Regulate or facilitate!
3.30pmEstablishing a community4.00pm
based HIV point-of-care
testing service and the
balancing competing
interests
Dr Mark Stoove, HIV Research
Program, Centre for Population
Health, Burnet Institute,
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Peer-led community sexual
health services in Perth
Dr Lewis Marshall Fremantle
Hospital and WA AIDS Council,
WA, Australia
Room: Meeting Room 3
Chairs: Brigitte Autran and
Patricia Price
The impact of immune
activation on natural killer
cells in the setting of HIV
infection
Associate Professor Anthony
Jaworowski, Burnet Institute,
VIC, Australia
2.20pm2.40pm
2.40pm3.00pm
Q&A
2.45pm3.00pm
3.30pm5.00pm
Room: Auditorium 2
Chair: Brianna Harrison
3.30pm4.00pm
Panel Discussion
Heather Worth, Brianna
Harrison, Annmaree O’Keefe,
Rob Lake, Angela Kelly and
David MacLaren
Satellite Session:
Sponsored by ASHM NSWe-Shared care: Improving
outcomes of HIV care in the
electronic era
Room: Auditorium 1
Chairs: Niamh Lynn
3.30pm5.00pm
3.30pm3.35pm
Introduction
3.30pmNiamh Lynn, Senior Project
3.45pm
Officer - HIV/STI - ASHM NSW,
Sydney, NSW, Australia
3.35pm3.50pm
HIV cycle of care –
interactive session
Levinia Crooks, CEO,
Australasian Society for HIV
Medicine, Sydney, NSW,
Australia
Preliminary results of a HIV
shared care audit
Dr David Baker, East Sydney
Doctors, Sydney, NSW,
Australia
3.50pm4.00pm
3.45pm4.00pm
Willingness to use HIV
pre-exposure prophylaxis
among Australian gay and
bisexual men: Findings from
the PrEPARE project 2011 2013
Dr Martin Holt, Senior
Research Fellow, Centre for
Social Research in Health, The
University of New South
Wales, NSW, Australia
3.30pm3.42pm
3.42pm3.54pm
3.54pm4.06pm
a[TEST] – Reflections on the
first four months of a
community-based Rapid HIV
and STI Screening Service
Geoff Honnor, Director, HIV/
Sexual Health, ACON, NSW,
Australia
4.00pm4.15pm
Men who have sex with
men in southern Vietnam
report high levels of sexual
risk behaviours and
substance use but
underutilise HIV testing
services
Q Pham
4.15pm4.30pm
Concurrent partnership and 4.15pmdensity of the sexual
4.25pm
network among men having
sex with men (MSM) in
Kuta, Bali, Indonesia
L Wulandari
HIV Shared care in a
Melbourne clinic
Dr Richard Moore, Northside
Clinic, Melbourne, VIC,
Australia
4.10pm4.25pm
4.25pm4.40pm
HIV Shared care – a
specialist perspective
Associate Professor Andrew
Carr, St Vincent’s Hospital
Sydney, NSW, Australia
4.25pm4.30pm
4.30pm4.45pm
4.45pm5.00pm
5.00pm6.30pm
4.00pm4.15pm
Practical use of the PCEHR
4.00pmin HIV shared care
4.10pm
Dr Trina Gregory, CPC Medical
Practice, NSW, Australia
HIV infection and access to 4.40pmPanel and audience
HIV prevention services
5.00pm
discussion – Future
among men who have sex
directions
with men in some sentinel
Dr William Donohue, Lance
provinces in Vietnam in
Feeney, Dr David Baker, Dr
2010 and 2012
Trina Gregory, Dr Richard
T Duong
Moore, Associate Professor
Andrew Carr, and Niamh Lynn
The epidemiology of
sexually transmitted
infections and viral
hepatitis among men who
have sex with men in
mainland China: A metaanalysis and data synthesis
E Chow
Welcome Reception and Poster Viewing Evening
Room: Exhibition and Poster Area-Exhibition Hall
4.30pm5.00pm
Current knowledge and
informal use of PrEP in
Australia: available evidence
from behavioural
surveillance and research
Dr Iryna Zablotska, Senior
Lecturer, The Kirby Institute,
The University of New South
Wales, NSW, Australia
Beyond the biomedical:
How, when and where might
PREP be available in
Australia
Mr Rob Lake, Executive
Director, Australian Federation
of AIDS Organisations (AFAO),
NSW, Australia
The case for PrEP: Why
PrEP could be an important
component of gay men’s HIV
prevention strategies
Associate Professor Garrett
Prestage, Sydney, NSW,
Australia; The Kirby Institute
and The Australian Research
Centre in Sex Health and
Society
4.06pm4.18pm
Feasibility, Acceptability and
Point Prevalence of HIV
Testing in Adults Admitted
Under the Division of
Medicine at Royal Darwin
Hospital
L Lallenec
4.00pm4.15pm
An optimised eight-colour
flow cytometry protocol for
the analysis of monocyte
heterogeneity and
monocyte activation
markers during HIV
infection
A Castley
4.18pm4.30pm
Sensitivity evaluation of six
rapid tests for detection of
human immunodeficiency
virus infection
P Cunningham
4.15pm4.30pm
HIV infection is associated
with the aberrant
expression of B cell
receptors for cytokines
that regulate B cell
activation and
differentiation
M French
Panel Discussion
Dean Murphy, Colin
Batrouney, Edwina Wright,
Martin Holt, Iryna Zablotska,
Rob Lake and Garrett
Prestage
4.30pm4.42pm
What is the preferred method 4.30pmof HIV testing among
4.45pm
Australian HIV negative gay
men?
I Zablotska
Clonal analysis of HIV-1
envelope sequences from
follicular helper T cells
isolated from human
spleen cells
Y Xu
4.42pm5.00pm
Panel Discussion
Mark Stoove, Lewis Marshall,
Geoff Honnor, Nathan Ryder,
Darren Russell, Philip
Cunningham, Iryna Zablotska
and Levinia Crooks
Natural control of HIV
infection is associated with
isotype diversification of
IgG antibodies to HIV p24
M French
4.45pm5.00pm
AUSTRALASIAN HIV&AIDS CONFERENCE 2013 – TUESDAY
6.30am
7.00am8.15am
7.00am
7.15am8.15am
Registration
Satellite Session sponsored by Gilead: The Great Debate - STRs Do Not put Patients first
Room: Waterfront 2 & 3
Moderator: Dr Norman Swan
Breakfast served
The Great Debate - STRs Do Not put Patients First
Moderator: Dr Norman Swan
Affirmative:
Professor Andrew Carr, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Adjunct Associate Professor Darren Russell, James Cook University, QLD, Australia
Mr Adrian Ogier, National Association of People Living with HIV (NAPWHA), NSW, Australia
Opposition:
Dr Dick Quan, Holdsworth House Medical Practice, NSW, Australia
Associate Professor Edwina Wright, The Alfred Hospital and the Burnet Institute, VIC, Australia
Mr Brent Allan, Living Positive Victoria, VIC, Australia
8.30am10.00am
HIV&AIDS Conference - Plenary 2
Room: Auditorium 2
Chairs: Vicki Krause and Levinia Crooks
8.30am8.31am
8.31am8.35am
8.35am9.05am
Introduction to the JRS Award Recipients and Future Leaders Award
Ms Levinia Crooks, CEO, Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, NSW
Launch of the booklet and DVD: Being Positive—Healthy Living for Australians with HIV
Jane Costello, President of Positive Life NSW
Future treatment options for HIV-infection
Professor Jean-Michel Molina, Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité - Paris, INSERM U941, France
9.05am9.30am
What is required to achieve an AIDS-free generation in Asia and the Pacific?
Associate Professor David Wilson, Head of Surveillance and Evaluation, The Kirby Institute, NSW, Australia
9.30am10.00am
Understanding and intervening in HIV-associated tuberculosis
Professor Robert J Wilkinson, University of Cape Town, Imperial College London, and National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom
10.00am10.30am
10.10am10.20am
10.00am10.30am
Morning Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing
Room: Exhibition and Poster Area-Exhibition Hall
Launch of the Ngarra Showcase
Exhibition Hall Foyer
Advocacy Corner - Video screenings
Room: Exhibition Hall
10.30am12.00pm
Theme B Proffered Paper
Session: Co-infection and
co-morbidities
10.30am12.00pm
Theme C Proffered
Paper Session: Testing;
Right here right now
10.30am- Theme B Proffered
12.00pm Paper Session: Barriers and
responses to integration
into best practice care
10.30am- Theme A: Workshop:
12.00pm Successful collaborations in
the developing world – How
to do it?
Room: Auditorium 2
Chairs: Craig Rodgers and
Gail Matthews
Room: Auditorium 1
Chairs: Colin Batrouney and
George Ayala
Room: Waterfront 2 & 3
Chairs: David Baker and
Jenny Hoy
10.30am10.45am
Cervical screening and HIV: 10.30amA review of women
10.45am
attending three sexual
health clinics in Sydney
D Tilley
Delayed HIV diagnoses
10.30am- Younger age, recent HIV
10.30amamong gay and bisexual men 10.45am diagnosis, and no annual
10.50am
in Australia
STI testing is associated
P Keen
with current ART non-use
among HIV-positive gay men
in Australia
J De Wit
10.45am11.00am
Prevalence and risk factors
for high-grade squamous
intraepithelial lesions
(HSIL) in a community
based cohort of
homosexual men
D Machalek
10.45am11.00am
Field performance of the
Alere Determine HIV Combo
assay in recent HIV infection
and overall in the Sydney
Rapid HIV Test Study
D Conway
10.45am- Efficacy and acceptability of 10.50am11.00am a combination intervention
11.00am
for smoking cessation in HIV
positive individuals: A pilot
study
L Healey
11.00am11.15am
Detectable HBV DNA in
plasma but no HBV drug
resistance in HIV/HBV
co-infected patients on
tenofovir-containing
antiretroviral therapy
J Sasadeusz
11.00am11.15am
Effect of testing experience
and profession on staff
acceptability of rapid HIV
testing in public sexual
health clinics in Sydney
D Conway
11.00am11.15am
11.15am11.30am
Prevalence and predictors
of multimorbidity among
people living with HIV in
regional New South Wales,
Australia
N Edmiston
11.15am11.30am
Queensland’s first
11.15amcommunity based HIV testing 11.30am
E Ryder
Room: Waterfront 1
Chairs: Rebekah Puls and
Patricia Price
Barriers to integrating HIV
11.00amand AIDS services into
11.10am
community health centres in
Bali Province, Indonesia
I Sutarsa
Influence of ART copayment on pharmacy
pick-up site and pharmacy
assessments of ART
adherence
J McMahon
10.30am- Theme D Proffered Paper
12.00pm Session: HIV in the Pacific
11.10am11.20am
Room: Meeting Room 3
Chair: David MacLaren
Make new friends and avoid
FEDEX science
Professor Patricia Price, School
of Pathology and Medicine,
University of Western Australia,
WA, Australia and Dr Evy
Yunihastuti, Medical Director,
HIV integrated clinic Cipto
Mangunkusumo Hospital,
University of Indonesia
Larger scale collaborationsMaking lots of friends and
keeping them
Rebekah Puls, University of
NSW, NSW, Australia
10.30am- Is there HIV on the inside?
10.45am An assessment of HIV risk
and prevention in prison’s
and police holding cells in
Papua New Guinea
A Kelly
Successful shipping Without losing samples and
your mind
Anna Donaldson, University of
NSW, NSW, Australia
11.15am11.30am
10.45am- ‘Mi aigris long koins bilong
11.00am em’ (‘I was attracted to him
because of his money’):
Polygamy, sexual agency
and women in
contemporary Papua New
Guinea
A Mek
Working in a global
11.00am- The Contribution of
repository – Facilitating
11.15am Partner Testing to PPTCT
collection, storage and
Efforts and Getting to Zero
retrieval of valuable
New Pediatric HIV
specimens
Infections in Papua New
Kate Merlin, St Vincent’s Centre
Guinea
for Applied Medical Research,
TD Frank
Sydney, NSW, Australia
‘I left my lifeline’:
Understanding use and
refusal of alternative
therapies among people
living with HIV in the
Pacific Islands
H Gorman
11.30am11.45am
Detection of systemic
11.30amhuman papillomavirus type 11.45am
16-specific T-cell responses
in HIV-uninfected and
infected men who have sex
with men
W Tong
Consumer preferences for a
community-based rapid HIV
point-of care testing service
for men who have sex with
men in Melbourne
M Stoove
11.30am11.45am
Expanded dispensing of
antiretroviral medications
can remove perceived
barriers to accessing
treatment and is well
received by people living
with HIV
M Graham
11.45am12.00pm
Preliminary findings from
the Anal Cancer
Examination (ACE) study
- acceptability of an annual
anal examination amongst
patients and doctors
J Ong
Providing HIV results via
SMS one day after testing:
more popular than rapid
point-of-care tests
S Davies
11.45am12.00pm
Hepatitis C testing and
11.35aminfection in HIV-positive men 11.50am
who have sex with men in
Melbourne, Victoria
M Hellard
12.00pm1.30pm
12.00pm1.30pm
2.00pm5.00pm
1.30pm3.00pm
11.45am12.00pm
Lunch, Exhibition and Poster Viewing
Room: Exhibition and Poster Area-Exhibition Hall
Advocacy Corner - Community presentations; Q&A
Room: Exhibition Hall
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Satellite Meeting
Room: Meeting Room 4
Theme B Symposium
1.30pmTheme C Proffered
Session: Contemporary
3.00pm
Paper Session: HIV
Issues in HIV management
Epidemiology and
Behavioural Trends
Room: Auditorium 2
Chairs: Jean-Michel Molina
and Suzanne Crowe
1.30pm1.45pm
HIV care: How well are we
managing people with HIV
Dr Mark Bloch, Director,
Holdsworth House Medical
Practice, Sydney, NSW,
Australia
1.30pm3.00pm
Room: Auditorium 1
Chairs: Craig Cooper and
David Wilson
1.30pm1.45pm
HIV diagnosed in Victoria
among new migrants
C El-Hayek
1.30pm1.45pm
Satellite Session: HIV
Immigration and Legal
Satellite
11.20am11.35am
Experience in using CLIA and
ISO to establish a laboratory
network for US NIAID
Pediatric Clinical Trials
between Thailand and
Cambodia
Sasiwimol Ubolyamn, The
HIV-NAT AIDS Research
Centre/ Chulalongkorn
University Hospital, Bangkok,
Thailand
Strengthening laboratory
quality management systems
using NRL STEPS
Sue Best, National Reference
Laboratory, VIC, Australia
11.50am12.00pm
Q&A
1.30pm3.00pm
Theme A Symposium:
A vaccine for HIV:
Therapeutic or preventivePushing the envelope!
11.30am11.45am
Breaking Culture: HIV
Prevention and
Subjectivities of Change in
Papua New Guinea
P Shih
11.45am12.00pm
Human papillomavirus, HIV
and other sexually
transmitted infections
among women attending
antenatal, well woman and
sexual health clinics in
Papua New Guinea
A Vallely
1.30pm3.00pm
Theme D Proffered
Paper Session: HIV in
Australia
Room: Waterfront 2 & 3
Chairs: Anna Roberts and
Brent Allan
Room: Waterfront 1
Chairs: Ivan Stratov and
Sharon Lewin
Room: Meeting Room 3
Chair: Angela Kelly
Regional HIV Policy: What
1.30pmdo we know about regional
1.50pm
policies around HIV and
immigration
Associate Professor Heather
Worth, Head of the
International HIV Research
Group, School of Public Health
and Community Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine, UNSW,
Australia
Can Therapeutic Vaccines be 1.30pmof help for an HIV Cure?
1.45pm
Professor Brigitte Autran,
University Pierre et Marie Curie,
Hôpital Pitié - Salpétrière, Paris,
France
HIV notifications in migrant
populations in NSW,
2003-2012
M Lam
1.45pm2.00pm
How safe is contemporary
ART?
Dr David Nolan, Consultant
Physician, Royal Perth
Hospital, WA, Australia
The changing face of HIV-1
diversity in Western
Australia- A 12 year analysis
A Castley
1.45pm2.00pm
Australian Immigration
1.50pmProcess: How does an
2.10pm
individual navigate the
system
Indraveer Chatterjee, Principal
solicitor for Australia’s only HIV
specialist legal centre, the HIV/
AIDS Legal Centre (HALC),
NSW, Australia
2.00pm2.15pm
Immune activation and
2.00pmSerious Non AIDS Events in 2.15pm
HIV infection
Dr Denise Hsu, Lecturer,
Kirby Institute, UNSW, NSW,
Australia
Comparison of recruitment
strategies for behaviour
studies among gay men
I Zablotska
2.00pm2.15pm
2.15pm2.30pm
The current HIVmanagement policy
environment
Associate Professor Darren
Russell, Director of Sexual
Health, Cairns Sexual Health
Service, Cairns, QLD,
Australia
2.15pm2.30pm
Trends in CD4+ cell count at
HIV diagnosis in Australia,
2001 - 2012
A McDonald
2.15pm2.30pm
The Health Requirement and
Significant Cost Threshold:
Details of the Requirements
and How the Policy Limits
are Set
Richard Johnson, Assistant
Secretary of the Visa
Framework and Family Policy
Branch, Migration and Visa
Policy Division, Australian
Department of Immigration
and Citizenship, Australia
Public Health Implications of 2.10pmHIV Migration Policies and
2.30pm
UNAIDS Assessments of
International Policies
Brianna Harrison, Human
Rights and Law Advisor,
UNAIDS Asia Pacific Regional
Service Team
2.30pm2.45pm
Mind the Gaps - PLHIV
2.30pmissues in Australia today
2.45pm
Simon O’Connor, Executive
Officer, Queensland Positive
People (QPP), QLD, Australia
Reinvigorating evidence for
action and capacity in
community HIV programs
(REACH Project)
K Johnston
2.30pm3.00pm
2.45pm3.00pm
Panel Discussion
Discussion
3.00pm3.30pm
3.00pm3.30pm
Afternoon Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing
Room: Exhibition and Poster Area-Exhibition Hall
Advocacy Corner Program - Open mic sessions
Room: Exhibition Hall
1.45pm2.00pm
2.45pm3.00pm
Panel discussion:
2.30pmThe panel with address
2.45pm
questions from the audience
and discuss whether and
how the Australian policy
should change
Anna Roberts, Indraveer
Chatterjee, Heather Worth,
and Dr Anne Watson, Medical
officer, Department of
Immigration and Citizenship
2.45pm3.00pm
Advances in prophylactic
vaccines... contributions
from the region
Professor Anthony Kelleher,
Program Head, Kirby Institute,
Uni NSW, NSW, Australia
1.45pm2.00pm
Young gay men, sex,
relationships and HIV risk
D Duncan
2.00pm2.15pm
HIV testing patterns and
barriers to testing among
people from culturally and
linguistically diverse
(CALD) backgrounds in
NSW Australia: Results
from a NSW communitybased survey
S McGregor
Discussion
2.15pm2.30pm
Breadth and Magnitude of
envelope-specific ADCC
responses in people who
naturally control HIV
Dr Ivan Stratov, Department of
Microbiology and Immunology,
University of Melbourne, VIC,
Australia
2.30pm2.45pm
To escape, or not to escape:
Pig-tailed macaque MHC I
haplotypes that drive CTL
escape in SIV infection
S Gooneratne
2.45pm3.00pm
HIV knowledge and sexual
behaviour among people
from culturally and
linguistically diverse
(CALD) backgrounds in
NSW Australia: Results
from a NSW Communitybased survey 2012
ES Mlambo
A dramatic increase in the
use of mobile apps to meet
partners among gay men
in Melbourne and Sydney
is not associated with
increased risk-taking:
Findings from the Gay
Community Periodic
Surveys, 2010-13
P Hull
Determinants of suicide
and accidental/violent
death in the Australian HIV
Observational Database
K Petoumenos
3.30pm5.00pm
3.30pm3.49pm
3.49pm4.08pm
Theme B Symposium
Session: Coinfections,
epidemiology and
transmission
3.30pm5.00pm
Room: Auditorium 2
Chairs: Julian Elliott and Tony
Kelleher
HCV transmission risks:
3.30pmChanging times, changing
3.50pm
needs?
Dr Gail Matthews, Clinical
academic and Senior
Research Fellow, The Kirby
Institute, NSW, and St
Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney,
NSW, Australia
Hepatitis B - the Northern
3.50pmTerritory story
4.10pm
Dr Jane Davies, Menzies
School of Health Research;
Senior clinical fellow in
Infectious Diseases, Royal
Darwin Hospital, NT, Australia
Theme C Symposium
Session: Heterosexual
transmission of HIV in
Australia: An examination of
trends, risks, impacts and
responses
Room: Auditorium 1
Chairs: John de Wit and Pene
Manolas
Trends in heterosexually
acquired HIV infection in
Australia, 2001-2012
Dr Ann McDonald, The Kirby
Institute for Infection and
Immunity in Society, The
University of New South Wales,
NSW, Australia
3.30pm5.00pm
Engaging with male
expatriates, travellers and
HIV
Dr Graham Brown, Australian
Research Centre in Sex,
Health and Society, LaTrobe
University, VIC, Australia; WA
Centre for Health Promotion
Research, Curtin University,
WA, Australia
3.55pm4.10pm
3.30pm3.55pm
Theme A and Theme B:
Age-related pathologies in
HIV patients
Room: Waterfront 2 & 3
Chairs: Bruce Brew and David
Nolan
HIV infection, inflammation
and ageing: How are they
linked?
Professor Suzanne Crowe,
Associate Director, Burnet
Institute (Clinical Research),
Consultant Physician in
Infectious Diseases, The
Alfred; Professor of Medicine,
Monash University, Melbourne,
VIC, Australia
Increased risk of
cardiovascular disease
(CVD) with age in men: A
comparison of the D:A:D
CVD risk equation and
general population CVD risk
equations
K Petoumenos
3.30pm5.00pm
3.30pm3.39pm
Theme D Proffered
3.30pmPaper Session: Quick fire:
5.00pm
Short presentations from
Australia and the Asia Pacific
Region
Room: Waterfront 1
Chairs: Angela Kelly and Jo
Watson
Justice for whom? Resolving 3.30pmsexual violence in Bena,
4.15pm
Eastern Highlands Province,
Papua New Guinea
H Aeno
3.39pm3.48pm
Representations of
homosexuality in The
Northern province and on the
islands of New Caledonia
FL Mbodj
3.48pm3.57pm
The reality of treatment
adherence for NSW’s most
marginalised people living
with HIV (PLWH): An analysis
of factors affecting
adherence and the impact of
the Bobby Goldsmith
Foundation’s (BGF) financial
assistance on adherence
E Ninnes
‘Time to Test’ campaign to
promote HIV testing among
gay men
D Murphy
3.57pm4.06pm
Satellite Session: A DHIVA
Initiative - Practical
Management of
Menopause, Contraception
and Pregnancy in Women
with HIV
Room: Meeting Room 3
Chair: Moira Wilson
Managing Contraception
and Menopause in HIV
Positive Women
Professor Martha Hickey,
Professor of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, The Royal
Women’s Hospital and the
University of Melbourne, VIC,
Australia
4.08pm4.27pm
4.27pm4.46pm
4.46pm5.00pm
The consequences of HIV / 4.10pmTB confection in the Asia
4.30pm
Pacific Region:
epidemiology, modelling
and public health strategies
Dr Emma McBryde, Head of
Epidemiology, Victorian
Infectious Diseases Service;
Principal Research Fellow,
University of Melbourne,
Epidemiologist, Burnet
Institute, VIC, Australia
The impact of living with HIV:
differences in experiences of
stigma for heterosexual and
homosexual PLHIV in
Australia
Dr Loren Brener, Senior
Research Fellow, Centre for
Social Research in Health,
UNSW, NSW, Australia
HIV transmission: An
4.30pmupdate for clinicians in the 4.50pm
combination prevention era
Professor Andrew Grulich,
Professor and Head of HIV
Epidemiology and Prevention
Program, the Kirby Institute,
UNSW, NSW, Australia
Community HIV prevention
responses to emerging
priorities
Mr Craig Cooper, Northern
Territory AIDS and Hepatitis
Council, NT, Australia
4.30pm4.45pm
Q&A
Q&A
4.45pm5.00pm
4.50pm5.00pm
4.10pm4.15pm
4.15pm4.30pm
Neurological aspects of
Ageing and HIV
Professor Bruce Brew, Head of
Department of Neurology, St
Vincent’s Hospital, NSW
Australia
Investigation of immune
markers that may explain
association of CMV antibody
titres and cardiovascular
risk in HIV+ individuals
stable on HAART
S Brunt
4.06pm4.15pm
Growing Pains: A first look at
drug use in a post-conflict
country
A Belo Ximenes
4.15pm4.24pm
Prevalence of HIVassociated neurocognitive
disorders using a new
cogstate-based screening
against standardised
neuropsychological
assessment in an Australian
HIV-infected and HIVnegative community cohort
M Bloch
Prevalence of CSF
Alzheimer’s disease-like
profiles in middle-aged HIV+
individuals
L Cysique
4.33pm4.42pm
My Journey: Exploring the
4.15pmexperiences of women living 5.00pm
with HIV in Australia
S Cristian
When you cannot dance, but
you can recite: Promoting the
sexual health of young
people with refugee
backgrounds
A Coelho
ENUF: Crowd sourcing
voices to resist HIV stigma
and promote resilience
B Allan
4.24pm4.33pm
4.42pm4.51pm
4.51pm5.00pm
5.15pm7.15pm
ViiV Healthcare Satellite Session - HIV Life Plan Cardiovascular Health Symposium
Room: Waterfront 1
Chair: Edwina Wright
5.15pm6.00pm
Welcome drinks and canapes in foyer
6.00pm7.00pm
Presentation
Dr David Nolan, Royal Perth Hospital, Co-author of the HIV Life Plan, Cardiovascular Health chapter
7.00pm7.15pm
Q&A
Listening to community
voice: Perceptions of models
of service delivery for male
circumcision as an HIV
prevention option in Papua
New Guinea
A Tynan
Understanding the
constraints and facilitators in
the Fijian health system to
the prevention of mother-tochild transmission of HIV
(PMTCT) services in Suva
A Razzaq
Case Presentations
Case Study 1:
Make no bones about it…
Dr Catriona Ooi,
Western Sydney Sexual
Health Centre, NSW,
Australia
Case Study 2:
Women living with HIV
Diagnostic dilemmas
Dr Moira Wilson, Fremantle
Hospital, WA, Australia
AUSTRALASIAN HIV&AIDS AND SEXUAL HEALTH CONFERENCES 2013 – WEDNESDAY
6.30am
7.00am8.15am
Registration
Case Presentation Breakfast: HIV&AIDS Conference
7.00am8.15am
Affiliate Event: Australasian Sexual Health and HIV Nurses Association (ASHHNA) AGM
and Breakfast
7.00am8.15am
Room: Waterfront 1
Chair: Donna Tilley
Guest Speaker: Peter Knibbs Nursing Unit Manager Clinic 34 Darwin
Peter has worked in HIV at Clinic 34 Darwin for 21 years. During that time he has seen many
changes in relation to HIV in the Top End.
Peter will be discussing his role and the challenges that come with this position.
Room: Waterfront 2 and 3
Chairs: Winnie Tong and Shailendra Sawleshwarkar
7.15am7.30am
7.30am7.45am
7.45am8.00am
8.00am8.15am
8.30am10.00am
8.30am8.35am
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in a patient with HIV and disseminated
Varicella Zoster Virus
S Sasson
Protracted cryptococcal disease: immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) or
not?
S McGuinness
HIV and Hodgkin’s Lymphoma - A Medical Dilemma
C Khaw
Complex Case Report that illustrates the paucity of data for long term management of
Visceral Leishmania-HIV co-infection
M Kelly
Sexual Health Conference: Opening Plenary
Room: Auditorium 1 & 2
Chairs: Margaret Redelman and Kim Gates
Welcome To Country
Dorrie-Anne Raymond, The Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation (LNAC), NT, Australia
8.30am10.00am
8.30am8.50am
HIV&AIDS Conference: Basic Science Symposium: HIV reservoirs and the potential of
gene therapy
Room: Meeting Room 3
Chairs: John Zaunders and Sharon Lewin
Characterization of HIV latency in a chemokine model of preactivation latency
Dr Paul U Cameron, Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University, VIC, Australia
8.35am8.45am
Introduction by Convenor
Dr Margaret Redelman, (Convenor), Medical Sex Therapist, Secretary: Society Australian
Sexologists Ltd, NSW, Australia
8.50am9.10am
Longitudinal analysis of infection frequencies and genetic makeup of intracellular HIV-1
from tissue compartments during long-term suppressive therapy
Associate Professor Sarah Palmer, Westmead Millennium Institute/University of Sydney,
Westmead, NSW, Australia
8.45am8.50am
Opening address
Dr Nathan Ryder, Sexual Health Physician, Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Unit, NT,
Australia
ASHA’s - First Conference Welcome
Associate Professor Richard Hillman, (AChSHM President/ASHA Chair), Academic Lead, Western
Sydney Sexual Health Centre, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
9.10am9.30am
Promoter targeting small RNA suppresses HIV-1 infection in-vivo through transcriptional
gene silencing
K Suzuki
Enforcement of HIV-1 Postintegration Latency by a Tat Mutant
D Harrich
ASHA Oration
Associate Professor Darren Russell, Director of Sexual Health, Cairns Sexual Health Service,
Cairns, QLD, Australia
Changing Face of Indigenous Sexual and Public Health
Jacki Mein, Apunipima Cape York Health Council, Senior Medical Officer, QLD, Australia
Morning Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing
Room: Exhibition and Poster Area-Exhibition Hall
Advocacy Corner - Video screenings
Room: Exhibition Hall
9.50am10.00am
8.50am9.00am
9.00am9.30am
9.30am10.00am
10.00am10.30am
10.00am10.30am
9.30am9.50am
Q&A
10.30am12.00pm
10.30am10.50am
10.50am11.10am
11.10am11.30am
Joint Conference Symposium: Models
of Clinical Care in Sexual Health and
HIV
Room: Auditorium 1 & 2
Chairs: Shannon Woodward and Kirsten
Thompson
Creating and maintaining STI control
in a remote region of Aboriginal
communities: lessons from an
eighteen year long program on the
Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara
(APY) Lands
Dr Rae-Lin Huang, STI Control and HIV
Prevention Co-ordinator, Nganampa
Health Council, NT, Australia
I nurse in the clap clinic - The future of
sexual reproductive health and
nursing
Dr. David Lee, DrPH, MPH, FCNA, FCN
(NSW); Nurse Practitioner, (Sexual
Reproductive Health); Melbourne Sexual
Health Centre, Alfred Hospital,
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The West Australian HIV Rural Remote
and Pregnancy Service
Allison Cain, Clinical Nurse Specialist,
Rural and Remote Service, Royal Perth
Hospital, WA, Australia
10.30am- Joint Conference Symposium: HIV and
12.00pm Sexual Health – Joining up the strands
10.30am12.00pm
Room: Waterfront 2 & 3
Chairs: Peter Aggleton and Jackie Mein
Joint Conference Symposium:
Biomedical: Cutting edge diagnostics
10.30am12.00pm
HIV&AIDS Conference: ACH2
Sponsored Basic Science SessionTranslational Immunovirology
Room: Waterfront 1
Chair: Basil Donovan
Room: Meeting Room 3
Chairs: David Harrich and Paul Cameron
10.30am- Young clean and safe
10.50am Associate Professor Kate Senior PhD,
Senior Research Fellow, ARC Future
Fellow, Youth Health and Wellbeing,
Centre for Child Development and
Education, Menzies School of Health
Research, NT, Australia
10.30am10.50am
Point of care testing as a public health 10.30amstrategy for the control of sexually
10.45am
transmitted infections
Professor John Kaldor, Public Health
Interventions Research Group, Kirby
Institute, University of New South Wales,
NSW, Australia
Short-hairpin RNA gene therapy to
CCR5 and membrane anchored C
peptide and their effect on HIV
susceptible cultures
S Ledger
10.50am- HIV and Sexual Health Peer Education
11.10am in Gender Diverse youth
Renon Schafer, Volunteer Youth Peer
Educator, NTAHC and Founder of SMILE
(a group for Same Sex Attracted and
Gender Diverse Youth), NT, Australia
10.50am11.10am
Rapid HIV Testing in Australia
10.45amDamian Conway, Lecturer, Sexual Health 11.00am
Program, Kirby Institute, NSW, Australia
Targeting Tat expression during HIV-1
viral latency
Associate Professor Damian Purcell,
Reader in Virology, The University of
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ACON Rapid HIV testing data - it’s
called a-test
Timmy Lockwood, CNS Sydney Sexual
Health Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia
11.00am11.15am
MicroCube, a crystalline platform for
HIV antigen presentation
Dr. Fasseli Coulibaly, ARC Future
Fellow, Structural Virology Laboratory,
School of Biomedical Sciences,
Monash University, VIC, Australia
11.20am11.40am
Update on anal cancer screening in
HIV+ populations
Dr Jason Ong, MBBS, MMed, FRACGP,
PhD candidate, University of Melbourne,
VIC, Australia
11.15am11.30am
Blocking two phase transfer of HIV-1
in primary langerhans cells
Dr Najla Nasr, Centre for Virus
Research, Westmead Millennium
Institute for Medical Reserach, University
of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
11.10am11.30am
Considering the whole: The overlapping 11.10amepidemiology of STIs, sex work, drug
11.20am
use and reproductive health
Dr Phillip Read, Medical Unit Manager/
Staff Specialist, Kirketon Road Centre,
Sydney, NSW, Australia
11.30am11.50am
Partnerships in Care – Aboriginal
Community Controlled Services and
HIV Specialist Services working in
collaboration for the best outcomes
for the individual
Kim Dick, Senior Aboriginal Health
Worker - Victorian Aboriginal Health
Service and Sandra Gregson, STI/BBV
Nurse - Victorian Aboriginal Health
Service, VIC, Australia
11.30am11.50am
“HIV Treatment as Prevention and
Sexual Health”
Associate Professor Darren Russell
Director of Sexual Health, Cairns Sexual
Health Service, Cairns, QLD, Australia
11.40am11.50am
Practicalities of screening for anal
cancer
Christopher K Fairley, Professor of
Sexual Health, University of Melbourne,
Director, Melbourne Sexual Health
Centre, VIC, Australia
11.30am11.45am
Development of a novel, quantitative,
real-time HIV neutralisation assay
Dr Lachlan Gray, Centre for Biomedical
Research, Burnet Institute, VIC, Australia
11.50am12.00pm
Q&A
11.50am12.00pm
Q&A
11.50am12.00pm
Q&A
11.45am12.00pm
Q&A
12.00pm1.30pm
12.00pm1.30pm
12.00pm1.30pm
12.30pm1.15pm
Lunch, Exhibition and Poster Viewing
Room: Exhibition and Poster Area-Exhibition Hall
Advocacy Corner - Community presentations; Q&A
Room: Exhibition Hall
ASHM AGM
Room: Waterfront 1
The STRIVE trial of clinical quality improvement for sexual health in remote communities: Update and new findings
12.30pm12.45pm
12.45pm1.00pm
Room: Waterfront 2 & 3
Chair: James Ward
Increases in STI testing following the introduction of a sexual health quality improvement program: Findings from the STRIVE trial
Linda Garton, The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Improving systems to support best practice in sexual health service delivery: Findings from the STRIVE trial
Debbie Taylor-Thomson, Menzies School of Health Research, NT, Australia
1.00pm1.15pm
STRIVE: Barriers and facilitators to health worker instigated STI testing in remote Aboriginal communities
Belinda Hengel, Apunipima Cape York Health Council, QLD, Australia
1.30pm3.00pm
Joint Conference Symposium: Impact
of Employment on Sexual Health and
HIV Risk
1.30pm3.00pm
Room: Auditorium 1 & 2
Chair: Judith Dean
Joint Conference Symposium: NT NSP
Review – BBV Prevention Partnership
1.30pm3.00pm
Room: Waterfront 2 & 3
Chairs: Craig Cooper and Annie Madden
1.30pm1.50pm
Sexual Health and Australian Defence
Force
Stephen Lambert, Project Manager, The
University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1.30pm1.50pm
Anex Review of the Needle and Syringe 1.30pmProgram in the Northern Territory
2.00pm
John Ryan, Chief Executive Officer, Anex,
VIC, Australia
1.50pm2.10pm
Sexual Health of the Workforce in
Extractive & Agricultural Industries in
PNG
Mr Kelwyn Browne, PNG National
Department of Health (Rural Primary
Health Services Delivery Project), Papua
New Guinea
Who’s going to look after HIV?
Accounts of generational change in
the GP workforce providing HIV care
Dr Christy Newman, Senior Research
Fellow, Centre for Social Research in
Health, UNSW Arts and Social Sciences,
NSW, Australia
1.50pm2.10pm
The development of the NT NSP
Working Group – NSP Service
Development and Stakeholder
Engagement. How to drive change
Katherine Moriarty, Senior Policy Officer,
NT Health (CDC), NT, Australia
2.10pm2.30pm
NT OPP Review – Service development 2.20pmand peer engagement, ensuring BBV
2.40pm
prevention for opiate dependent people
in the Territory
Ms Joanna Murray, Senior Adviser, Alcohol
and Other Drugs Services, Department of
Health, NT, Australia
2.10pm2.30pm
2.00pm2.20pm
Joint Conference Symposium: Hot
topics in Women’s Sexual Health
Room: Waterfront 1
Chairs: Caroline Harvey and Katherine
Brown
Women, Violence and Sexual Health in
PNG
Angela Kelly, Principal Research Fellow,
Sexual and Reproductive Health, PNG
Institute of Medical Research, Senior
Research Fellow, School of Public Health
& Community Medicine, UNSW, NSW,
Australia
Contraception and HIV
Dr Ellie Freedman, Medical Director
Northern Sydney Sexual Assault Service,
Royal North Shore Hospital, and
Consultant to FPNSW, NSW, Australia
1.30pm3.00pm
1.30pm1.35pm
1.35pm1.55pm
Hep B and Pregnancy
1.55pmDr Catriona Ooi, Western Sydney Sexual 2.15pm
Health Clinic, Sydney, NSW, Australia
HIV&AIDS Conference Basic Science:
Concentrated HTLV-1 infections in
remote Australia
Room: Meeting Room 3
Chairs: Damian Purcell and Kevin
Freeman
Introduction to the virology of HTLV-1,
and the similarities and differences
with HIV
Associate Professor Damian Purcell,
Reader in Virology, The University of
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The epidemiology and clinical
manifestations of the Human T
Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 in central
Australia
Dr Lloyd Einsiedel, Flinders University,
NT, Australia
Is there an occupational risk of
HTLV-1 infection?
Dr Saliya Hewagama, Infectious
Diseases Physician, Alice Springs
Hospital, NT, Australia
2.30pm2.50pm
Mining and Sexual Health in Western
Australia
Andrew Burry, Chief Executive Officer
WA AIDS Council, WA, Australia
2.30pm2.45pm NT Police and NT Health – NSP
2.40pmMemorandum of Understanding.
3.00pm
Implications for NT Police as an NSP
service partner
Senior Sergeant John Ginnane, NT Police,
NT, Australia
2.50pm3.00pm
Q&A
2.45pm3.00pm
NTAHC engagement with NSP peers,
improving the service standards and
model
Damon Brogan, Harm Minimisation
Manager, Northern Territory AIDS and
Hepatitis Council (NTAHC), NT, Australia
3.00pm3.30pm
3.00pm3.30pm
3.30pm5.00pm
Update on cervical cancer prevention
Dr Julia Brotherton, Medical Director,
National HPV Vaccination Program
Register, VIC, Australia
2.15pm2.30pm
2.30pm2.45pm
2.45pm3.00pm
Laboratory Diagnosis of Human
T-lymphotropic virus I/II (HTLV-I/II)
Kevin Freeman, Network Supervisor,
Serology/Molecular Biology Department,
Northern Territory Government
Pathology Services, Royal Darwin
Hospital, NT, Australia
Development and validation of a
Human T-cell Lymphotropic virus
type-1 proviral load assay
K Wilson
Q&A
4.00pm4.20pm
Afternoon Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing
Room: Exhibition and Poster Area-Exhibition Hall
Advocacy Corner - Open mic sessions
Room: Exhibition Hall
Joint Conference Session and HIV&AIDS Conference Closing
Room: Auditorium 1 & 2
Chairs: Levinia Crooks and James Ward
Distilling the soul of our work and its consequences for gay men and other men who have sex with men worldwide: A case for honoring community and recovering the principles of primary
prevention
Dr George Ayala, Executive Director, The Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF), California, USA
Global Progress and Regional Action in the fight against HIV/AIDS (Video presentation)
Ambassador Mark Dybul, Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, USA (Video Presentation)
4.20pm4.40pm
Integrating an MSM service into the HIV clinic: Challenges and opportunities in facing the changing epidemic in Indonesia
Dr Evy Yunihastuti, Medical Director, HIV integrated clinic Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, University of Indonesia
4.40pm4.50pm
4.50pm4.55pm
4.55pm5.00pm
6.30pm11.00pm
Update on the Melbourne Declaration
Associate Professor Edwina Wright, The Alfred Hospital and the Burnet Institute, VIC, Australia on behalf of the Declaration Group
Conference wrap up and closing remarks
Ms Levinia Crooks, CEO, Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, NSW, Australia and Mr James Ward, Preventive Health, Deputy Director, Baker IDI Central Australia, NT, Australia
Presentation of the 2014 IAS Conference
Bertrand Audoin, Executive Director, International AIDS Society, Switzerland
2013 Australasian Sexual Health Conference Dinner, Sky City Events Marquee
Buses will depart the Convention Centre and hotels at 6.15pm
3.30pm4.00pm
AUSTRALASIAN SEXUAL HEALTH CONFERENCE – THURSDAY
6.30am
7.00am8.30am
Registration
Penelope Lowe Trainee Breakfast
7.20am7.40am
Room: Waterfront 3
Chair: Carole Khaw
Panel: Dr Natalie Edmiston, Dr Brian Hughes and Dr Phillip Read
Whodunit: Framed, guilty or an accessory after the fact?
Dr Vinita Rane, Sexual Health Registrar, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
7.40am8.00am
Young, gay, itchy and isolated: treatment failure of secondary syphilis in a young man with newly diagnosed HIV
Dr Alison Rutherford, CMO, SWSAHS Sexual Health, Liverpool, NSW, Australia
8.00am8.20am
Mycoplasma genitalium: trouble before we begin?
Dr Sally Murray, Sexual Health Registrar, Freemantle Hospital, Freemantle, WA, Australia
8.20am8.30am
9.00am10.30am
Q&A
Plenary
9.00am9.10am
Room: Auditorium 2
Chairs: Lewis Marshall and Donna Tilley
Preliminary launch of the Australasian STI Management Guidelines
Dr Chris Bourne, Senior Staff Specialist, Sydney Sexual Health Centre/NSW STI Programs Unit, Sydney Hospital, NSW, Australia
9.10am9.40am
Gollow Lecture:The Evolution of Sexual Health in Australia
Professor Basil Donovan, Professor and Head of the Sexual Health Program, The Kirby Institute, The University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
9.40am10.10am
Can chlamydia testing become standard practice in general practice?
Associate Professor Jane Hocking, PhD, Centre for Women’s Health, Gender and Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
10.10am10.30am
HIV and MSM in Asia
Professor Roy Chan, Director NSC, Chairman Dermatology Residency Advisory Committee, Head STI Control Programme, Senior Consultant, Director of Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Singapore
10.30am11.00am
Morning tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing
Room: Exhibition and Poster Area-Exhibition Hall
11.00am12.30pm
11.00am11.10am
Reproductive Health: Proffered Paper
Session
Room: Auditorium 2
Chair: Maria Garefalakis
Declining hospitalisation rate of
pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic
pregnancy and epididymitis in New
South Wales
JL Goller
11.00am12.30pm
11.00am11.10am
11.10am11.20am
11.10am11.20am
11.20am11.30am
11.30am11.40am
Prescription rates for long-acting
reversible contraception in Australia,
2008 - 2011
AL Bingham
Comparison of bleeding patterns
between continous twelve month use
of contraceptive vaginal ring and a
low dose pill in menstrually signalled regimen
M Stewart
Contraceptive use in Australia
LTT Trinh
11.20am11.30am
Public Health: Proffered Paper
Session
Room: Waterfront 1
Chair: Jane Hocking
Can a new dual detection point of
care test for Syphilis be used to
reduce over diagnosis of active
infection in high prevalence
populations?
LM Causer
Nurse initiated STI screening in a
rural emergency department in
Western Australia
H Lyttle
Sexually transmissible infections
(STI) among male sex workers in
Sydney, NSW
PJ Read
11.00am12.30pm
11.00am11.15am
11.15am11.30am
11.30am11.45am
11.30am11.40am
Chlamydia prevalence in adolescent 11.45amAustralians
12.00pm
C El Hayek
11.40am11.50am
Unpacking Chlamydia in Victoria:
Retrospective analysis of
surveillance data to estimate
reinfection
C El-Hayek
Biomedical: Proffered Paper Session
Room: Waterfront 2
Chair: David Templeton
Elimination of mother to child
transmission of Syphilis in Papua
New Guinea - An oppourtunity to
address the high prevalence of other
sexually transmitted infections
J Wapling
Sexually acquired reactive arthritis at
Sydney Sexual Health Centre 1992 2012
E Mason
11.00am12.30pm
11.00am11.01am
Quick Fire: Presentation Session
Room: Waterfront 3
Chair: Roy Chan
Introduction of Chapter Trainee
Presentations
11.01am11.11am
Improving access to intrauterine
device insertion in a single clinic visit
- A pilot study
J Mesure
11.11am11.21am
Preliminary findings from the Anal
Cancer Examination (ACE) study Acceptability of an annual anal
examination amongst patients and
doctors
J Ong
Sexual preference as a predictor of
pathogen detection in 4326 cases of
acute NGU
V Rane
The Ask Share Know Project: a
research translation study of three
consumer questions to enhance
treatment decision making
A Barratt
Azithromycin versus doxycycline for
the treatment of genital chlamydia
infection on a meta-analysis of
randomised controlled trials
F Kong
11.21am11.31am
High Resolution Anoscopy - Practice
makes perfect
M Gunathilake
11.38am11.45am
11.31am11.38am
Suffering in Silence: How can we help
women to better manage the sexual
difficulties associated with
antidepressant medication?
C O’Mullan
11.40am11.50pm
The conscience clause in relation to
termination of pregancy service
R A Hamilton
11.50am12.00pm
HIV and Syphilis co-infections are
re-infections: Trends from Victoria
N Higgins
12.00pm12.15pm
Is the stage of the menstrual cycle
related to chlamydia detection?
D Forcey
11.45am11.51am
11.51am12.00pm
Self reported lack of nocturnal
tumescence in a sample of Australian
men who have sex with men with
erectile dysfunction: Possible
implications for eitiology
B Crozier
Predictors of phosphodiesterase
type-5 inhibitor (PDE-5I) use in an
Australian cohort of men who have sex
with men (MSM)
Erectile dysfunction (ED) rates
assessed in an Australian cohort of
men who have sex with men (MSM)
B Crozier
A three year comparative study of
continuation rates, bleeding patterns
and satisfaction in Australian women
using a progestogen only implant or
hormonal intrauterine system
M Stewart
12.00pm12.10pm
12.00pm12.10pm
The legal status of PDPT strongly
impedes uptake among family
planning clinicians in Australia
J Micallef
12.10pm12.20pm
12.10pm12.20pm
Q&A
12.20pm12.30pm
11.50pm12.00pm
Home-based sample collection
increases Chlamydia retesting and
detects additional repeat postive
tests: A randomised controlled trial
in three risk groups
KS Smith
Prevalence of sexually transmitted
infections (STI) and patient
characteristics of older men over 60
years of age attending a public STD
clinic in South Australia
C Khaw
Q&A
12.15pm12.30pm
The “Let them know website”; A
popular partner notification method
amoung family planning clinicians
across Australia
C Harvey
12.00pm12.07pm
Human papillomavirus among teenage
men who have sex with men
H Zou
12.07pm12.13pm
Impact of re-infections on notifications
of STIs in NSW
M Lam
12.13pm12.19pm
“Funny shit about sex”:Using vulgar
comedy on YouTube to reach young
men with information about health
sexual development
A McKee
12.19pm12.25pm
Mind the Gap, A Partnership Approach:
Aboriginal and mainstream
organisations partnering in sexual
health and diversity in rural Victoria
P Waples-Crowe and A Bamblett
Q&A
12.25pm12.30pm
12.30pm2.00pm
Lunch
Room: Exhibition and Poster Area-Exhibition Hall
2.00pm3.30pm
2.00pm2.10pm
2.10pm2.20pm
2.20pm2.30pm
2.30pm2.40pm
Health Promotion: Proffered Paper
Session
Room: Auditorium 2
Chair: Jane Tomnay
Active recalling increases follow up
attendance rates for men having sex
with men (MSM) prescribed non
occupational post exposure
prophylaxis (NPEP) - 2 1/2 year
prospective review
S Doughty
Sex education experience of
sexuality diverse and gender variant
young people in Australia:
Implications for educators and health
professionals
K H Robinson
What do we know works? Findings
from a systematic rapid review of
effective programs to reduce STI in
young people
G Brown
Innovative, intergrated, sector driven
approaches to capacity building for
youth sexual health promotion in
Western Australia
M Robinson
2.00pm3.30pm
2.00pm2.10pm
2.10pm2.20pm
2.20pm2.30pm
2.30pm2.40pm
Psycho-social: Proffered Paper
Session
Room: Waterfront 1
Chair: Margaret Redelman
Sexual identity risk and bisexual
behaviour among men in Vientiane,
Laos 2010
AL Bowring
2.00pm3.30pm
“You’re a women, a convenience, a
cat, a poof, a thing an it”:
Transgender women negotiating
sexual coercion in NSW male
prisons
P Simpson
Patterns of adolescent sexual
iniation: A cross-national
comparison
L Prendergast
2.10pm2.20pm
Improving Hepatitis B management in
an urban ACCHO
K Dick and S Gregson
2.20pm2.30pm
Chlamydia and the urban Aboriginal
medical service
C Canuto
2.15pm2.30pm
Perception and practices of young
urban Bangladeshi male and female
on sexual and reproductive rights
S Chowdhury
2.30pm2.40pm
Conducting clinical audits to improve
sexual health service delivery in
primary health care services:
Successes, challenges and lessons
learnt
J Knox
A sexual health intervention
increases Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea
testing in regional Aboriginal
Community Controlled Health
Services in New South Wales
S Graham and J Sheather
An Indigenous cultural
appropriateness audit piloted in a
sexual health clinic in NSW: Making
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples a priority
B Hughes
Antenatal STI and BBV testing at
Aboriginal Medical Service Western
Sydney
D Dalaney-Thiele
2.30pm2.45pm
2.00pm2.10pm
2.40pm2.50pm
Online banner advertising: Not the
2.40pmpreferred medium for promoting a
2.50pm
publicly funded sexual health clinic
targeting men who have sex with men
A Haque
Sexual identity and sexual
victimisation of men and women in
Australian prisons
P Simpson
2.40pm2.50pm
2.50pm3.00pm
“I couldnt talk to a girl about that...”
How young male Victorian TAFE
students would like general
practitioners to talk to them about
sexual health
S Latreille
How men like it: Suburban men who
have sex with men’s sexual health
behaviour and health promotion
needs
A Santella
A Yes, No, Maybe list to promote
health protective sexual
communication
J Dore
2.50pm3.00pm
Does new media affect adolescent
sexual attitudes and behaviours? A
systematic review
L Watchirs Smith
2.50pm3.00pm
3.00pm3.10pm
Definitions of early first sexual
intercourse
W Heywood
3.00pm3.10pm
3.10pm3.20pm
Sext me your (.)(.) - Prevalence and
correlates of sexting in a sample of
Australian young people
M Lim
3.10pm3.20pm
3.00pm3.10pm
3.10pm3.20pm
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander:
Proffered Paper Session
Room: Waterfront 2
Chair: Mark Saunders
Impact of a comprehensive STI
program on STI rates on the
Ngaanyatjarra lands
A Tangey
2.00pm3.30pm
2.00pm2.15pm
2.45pm3.00pm
3.00pm3.15pm
TTANGO, The first randomised trial of 3.15pma molecular Chlamydia and
3.30pm
Gonorrhoea point-of-care assay
L Natoli
Large Trials Update: Proffered Paper
Session
Room: Waterfront 3
Chair: Sarah Martin
An increase in national Chlamydia
testing rates coinciding with a national
STI campaign: Use of data collected in
the ACCESS Laboratory Network
C van Gemert
Increasing Chlamydia testing in
general practice is achievable: An
update from the Australian Chlamydia
Control Effectiveness Pilot (ACCEPt)
A Wood
‘Yeah, why not?’ Evaluating the
acceptability of Chlamydia testing in
general practice to young people living
in rural Australia: A mixed method
approach
A Vaisey
“I think it is better for practice nurses
to do that” findings from the Australian
Chlamydia Control Pilot (ACCEPt)
R Lorch
High-risk anal human papillomavirus
(HPV) types in Australian homosexual
men and predictors, prevalence and
patterns of infection
M Poynten
High prevalence, incidence and
clearance of anal high-grade
squamous intraepithelial lesions
(HSIL) in homosexual men: Early
evidence from the Study of the
Prevention of Anal Cancer (SPANC)
F Jin
3.20pm3.30pm
Q&A
3.20pm3.30pm
A funded sexual and reproductive
health worker position at an
Aboriginal Community Controlled
Health Service improves health
service access and sexually
transmissible testing in Aboriginal
youth
J Milsom and D Saulo
3.30pm4.00pm
4.00pm5.30pm
Afternoon Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing
Room: Exhibition and Poster Area-Exhibition Hall
Symposium: Snapchatting: Key issues for young people
4.00pmRoom: Auditorium 2
Chair: Dr Siobhan Bourke
4.00pm5.30pm
Biomedical Symposium: Emerging
resistance issues
Room: Waterfront 1
Chairs: Nathan Ryder and Phillip Read
4.00pm4.15pm
Exploring the acceptability of online STI testing for rural young people in Victoria
Associate Professor Jane Tomnay, Director, Centre for Excellence in Rural Sexual Health
(CERSH), Rural Health Academic Centre, Melbourne Medical School, VIC, Australia
4.00pm4.20pm
Global Epidemiology of Gonococcal Resistance
Associate Professor Monica Lahra, Clinical Microbiologist, The Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney
and Director, The WHO Collaborating Centre for STD Sydney, NSW, Australia
4.15pm4.30pm
Addressing young women’s desire for genital beauty
Dr Magdalena Simonis, President Victorian Medical Women’s Society, MBBS, RACGP
Victoria, VIC, Australia
4.20pm4.40pm
4.30pm4.45pm
Multi-pronged approach to HIV/STI and sexual health promotion for young indigenous
and GLTBI Australians
David Mejia-Canales, Victorian Lawyer, VIC, Australia
Sexual health, young people and new technologies
Dr Megan Lim, Preventive Health Research Fellow and co-Head of Sexual Health Research,
Burnet Institute, VIC, Australia
4.40pm5.00pm
The Gonorrhoea Resistance Assessment via Nucleic acid Detection (GRAND) Project,
Australia
Associate Professor David Whiley, Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute
University of Queensland and Group Leader, Molecular Diagnostics and Characterisation Group
Queensland Paediatric Infectious Diseases Laboratory Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Centre
Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Mycoplasma genitalium: Where to now?
Associate Professor Catriona Bradshaw, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, The Alfred Hospital and
School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Chlamydia resistance and treatment failure
Associate Professor Jane Hocking, PhD, Centre for Women’s Health, Gender and Society,
Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
4.45pm5.00pm
5.00pm5.30pm 5.30pm6.30pm
5.35pm9.05pm
3.20pm3.30pm
Q&A
5.00pm5.20pm
Relationships, trust and contraceptive use among adolescents in regional and remote 5.20pmQ&A
Australia: Implications for Sexuality Education
5.30pm
Dr Janet Helmer, Senior Researcher, Youth Health and Wellbeing, Centre for Child
Development and Education Menzies School of Health Research, NT, Australia
Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine Annual Meeting
Room: Waterfront 2
Mindil Beach Sunset Markets
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6.30am
7.00am8.20am
Registration opens
MSD Satellite Session: Unintended pregnancy - driving the levels down in Australia. A compelling case for LARCs
7.00am7.20am
Room: Waterfront 3
Chair: Penny Steele
Unintended Pregnancy - The hard facts in rural and remote Australia
Dr Dan Dwyer, Gove District Hospital, Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia
7.20am7.40am
7.40am8.00am
The case for LARCs- an evidence based approach
Dr Caroline Harvey on behalf of the Sexual Health and Family Planning Australia Medical Professional Reference Group, Australia
Why Wait? Quick start initiation of contraception
Dr Kathy McNamee, Medical Director, Family Planning Victoria, VIC, Australia
8.00am8.20am
8.30am10.00am
Discussion and Q&A
8.30am8.40am
8.40am9.00am
9.00am9.20am
Symposium: Sexual functioning / sexual relationships
and sexual well being
Room: Auditorium 2
Chairs: Mary Stewart and Tonia Mezzini
Who are sexologists? What do they do? Society of
Australian Sexologists Ltd
Dr Margaret Redelman, Medical Sex Therapist,
Secretary: Society Australian Sexologists Ltd, NSW,
Australia
Sexual Dysfunction and Intimate Partner Violence
Mr Kelwyn Browne, PNG National Department of Health
(Rural Primary Health Services Delivery Project), Papua
New Guinea
Masturbation, gender and healthy sexual development
Associate Professor Christine Kaestle, Human
Development, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Visiting Scholar, Deakin University, VIC, Australia
9.20am9.40am
Case presentation incorporating the issues presented
in the session and how a sex therapist may approach
the situation
Dr Margaret Redelman, Medical Sex Therapist,
Secretary: Society Australian Sexologists Ltd, NSW,
Australia
9.40am10.00am
Panel Discussion
Mary Stewart, Tonia Mezzini, Margaret Redelman, Kelwyn
Browne, Christine Kaestle
8.30am10.00am
Biomedical Symposium : New Data, what’s current and
happening - new trials
Room: Waterfront 1
Chairs: Richard Hillman and Katherine Brown
The CAP-ASCCP LAST Project: Polishing the Gold
Standard
Professor Teresa M. Darragh, Professor of Clinical
Pathology, UCSF Mt. Zion Medical Center, Department
Pathology and Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive
Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA
8.30am10.00am
8.50am9.10am
Review of abortion from South Australia
Dr Ea Mulligan, Practicing Clinician and Member of the
Law faculty, Flinders University, SA, Australia
9.00am9.30am
Update on the SPANC study
Professor Andrew Grulich, Professor and Program Head,
The Kirby Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
9.10am9.30am
What do we know and need to know about abortion in
the Northern Territory?
Jenny Anastasi, PhD Scholar, Charles Darwin University,
Faculty of Menzies School of Health Research, NT,
Australia
9.30am9.50am
Investigation of a vulvar cancer cluster in young
Indigenous women
Dr Rebekah McWhirter, Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, TAS, Australia
9.30am10.00am
Panel Discussion
Angela Taft, Cait Calcutt, Ea Mulligan and Jenny Anastasi
9.50am10.00am
Q&A
8.30am9.00am
8.30am8.50am
Symposium: Abortion in Australia - “Where are we
now?”
Room: Waterfront 2
Chair: Angela Taft
Abortion in Australia - access and legal issues
Ms Cait Calcutt, Team Leader - Strategic Relations,
Children by Choice, QLD, Australia
10.00am10.30am
Morning Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing
Exhibition and Poster Area
10.30am11.50am
Symposium: Educating about sex and relationships
10.30am11.50am
Symposium: Access to Health Care providers and peer
education
10.30am11.50am
Symposium: Findings from the first national survey of
young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Room: Auditorium 2
Chairs: Peter Aggleton and Cristyn Davies
Role of Parents
10.30amJenny Walsh, Coordinator of Sexuality Education Programs, 10.50am
ARCSHS, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Room: Waterfront 1
Chairs: Craig Cooper and Bill Paterson
Accessing Quality Health Care - Sistergirls in remote
NT Communities
Ms Crystal Tierney, Student Post Grad Dip Sexology,
Curtin; Northern Territory AIDS and Hepatitis Council, NT,
Australia
10.45am11.00am
Role of School
Janice Atkin, Senior Project Officer Health and Physical
Education, Australian Curriculum, Assessment and
Reporting Authority, NSW, Australia
Peer Support Model of Care and Sexual Health
Education in Central Australia
Brett Trindle, Aboriginal Sexual Health Worker, Northern
Territory AIDS and Hepatitis Council, NT, Australia
11.00am11.15am
Rethinking the role of media in sex and relationships
education
Dr Kath Albury, Senior Lecturer, UNSW, NSW, Australia
11.15am11.30am
Building sexual ethics and sexual citizenship early in
life
Associate Professor Kerry Robinson, School of Education,
University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia
11.30am11.50am
Panel Discussion
11.30am- SWOP Peer Education, (Sex Worker Outreach Program) 11.30am- Panel Discussion
Peter Aggleton, Christyn Davies, Jenny Walsh, Janice Atkin, 11.50am Krystal Metcalf- SWOP Officer, Northern Territory AIDS and 11.50am Heather Worth, James Ward, Andrew Bamblett, Sidney
Kath Albury, Kerry Robinson
Hepatitis Council, NT, Australia
Williams, Sarah Betts, and Dea Delaney-Theile
Closing Plenary: Sexual Health Conference Closing-STI treatment in region
Room: Auditorium 2
Chairs: Nathan Ryder and Steven Skov
Cervical Screening in the 21st Century
Professor Teresa M. Darragh, Professor of Clinical Pathology, UCSF Mt. Zion Medical Center, Department Pathology and Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA
Panel: Pulling the Punters In - What gets people to go and have a test (A Multidisciplinary approach)
Moderator: Basil Donovan
Presenters and Panellists: James Ward, Peter Aggleton, Simon Doyle-Adams and Chris Bourne
10.30am10.45am
12.00pm1.30pm
12.00pm12.30pm
12.30pm1.15pm
10.50am11.10am
10.30am10.45am
10.45am11.00am
11.00am11.15am
11.10am11.30am
Remote Sexual Education/Condom distribution in
remote communities
Anne Davis, Sexual Health Coordinator Tiwi Islands,
Department of Health, NT, Australia
11.15am11.30am
Room: Waterfront 2
Chairs: Heather Worth and James Ward
Understanding “what’s going on with our mob”knowledge of STIs and BBVs as reported by young
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the
GOANNA survey
Andrew Bamblett, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health
Organisation Inc, Sexual Health/Blood Borne Virus Project
Officer, VIC, Australia
Understanding sexual risk behaviours of young
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: findings
of the GOANNA survey
Sidney Williams, Queensland Aboriginal and Islander
Health Council, Sexual Health Coordinator, QLD, Australia
Where do we go? Health service utilisation of young
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: findings
of the GOANNA survey
Sarah Betts, Manager/Sexual Health Program, Aboriginal
Health Council of South Australia, SA, Australia
Drug and alcohol use of young Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people: findings of the GOANNA survey
Dea Delaney-Thiele, Aboriginal Medical Service Western
Sydney, NSW, Australia
1.15pm1.20pm
Prize Presentations
Associate Professor Richard Hillman, (AChSHM President/ASHA Chair), Academic Lead, Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
1.20pm1.25pm
Closing Remarks
Dr Margaret Redelman, (Convenor), Medical Sex Therapist, Secretary: Society Australian Sexologists Ltd, NSW, Australia
1.25pm1.30pm
1.30pm
Presentation of the 2014 Conference in Sydney 9-11 October 2014
Dr Margaret Redelman, (Convenor) on behalf of the Convenor, Dr Eva Jackson
Conference Close