Organized by HIV-NAT

www.hivnat.org/bangkoksymposium

at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center

Bangkok, Thailand
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 17, 2018
07.00 - 08.00 Registration 11.00 - 12.00
THE GREAT DEBATE
08.00 - 08.30 PrEP is better than condoms in ending AIDS
Opening ceremony
Phan Wannamethee
Secretary General, Thai Red Cross Society

08.30 - 09.00
Moderator:
Joep Lange and Jacqueline van Annette Sohn, MD
Tongeren Memorial Lecture Director, TREAT Asia, Bangkok, Thailand; Vice President amfAR, USA
Can we end HIV? DEBATERS
Praphan Phanuphak, MD, PhD Cons:
Director of the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research
Centre and Director of HIV-NAT, Bangkok,
Thailand
Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn, MD, MPH
Chairperson: Peter Reiss, MD, PhD

Director of the Center for Health Policy and

Management, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi
09.00 - 09.30 Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand

Prevention and PrEP

Nittaya Phanuphak, MD, PhD
Chief of SEARCH, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research
Centre, and Chief of Prevention, Thai Red Cross Donn Colby, MD, MPH
AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand Senior Clinical Research Physician, SEARCH, Thai Red
Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
09.30 - 10.00
HIV prevention and treatment in
Pros:
adolescents and youth
08.30 - 11.00

Linda-Gail Bekker, MD
The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, South Africa Rena Janamnuaysook, BA, MBA
Transgender Program Coordinator, Tangerine
Clinic, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre,
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break Bangkok, Thailand

10.30 - 11.00
New drug delivery systems and
implications for treatment and Nittaya Phanuphak, MD, PhD
prevention Chief of SEARCH, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research
Centre, and Chief of Prevention, Thai Red Cross
David Burger, PhD AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen,
The Netherlands

12.00 - 13.30 Satellite Lunch Symposium by Johnson & Johnson

HIV care and management in South East Asia: The role of current and future treatment regimens

13.30 - 16.30 WORKSHOP

Ballroom: Meeting room 1-2: Meeting room 3-4:

Service delivery models for hard to
HCV Pediatric
reach populations
(interactive e-voting) (interactive e-voting case studies)

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13.30 - 16.30 WORKSHOP (Continued)

Ballroom: Meeting room 1-2: Meeting room 3-4:

Service delivery models for hard to
HCV Pediatric
reach populations
(interactive e-voting) (interactive e-voting case studies)

Moderators: Moderators: Moderators:

Nittaya Phanuphak, MD, PhD Anchalee Avihingsanon, MD, PhD Chitsanu Pancharoen, MD
Akarin Hiransuthikul, MD Nicolas Durier, MD Thanyawee Puthanakit, MD

MSM ART options for pediatric patients with

Kimberly Green, PhD
Chief of Party, PATH, Vietnam
Transgender people
Rena Janamnuaysook, BA, MBA
Transgender Program Coordinator, Tangerine Clinic,
Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok,
Thailand
Sex workers
Surang Janyam, MEd
Director of the Service Workers in Group (SWING)
Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand
PWID/PWUD
Apinun Aramrattana, MD, PhD
Director, Southeast Asia HIV Addiction Technology
Transfer Center (SEA HATTC) Faculty of Medicine,
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
same-day STI-treatment
Eileen Dunne, MD, MPH
Chief of the Behavioral and Clinical Research
Section, Thailand MOPH-US CDC Collaboration
(TUC), Bangkok, Thailand
HIV drug resistance
Teerha Piratvisuth, MD
Director of NKC Institute of Gastroenterology and Thanyawee Puthanakit, MD
Hepatology, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, HIV-NAT, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre,
Thailand and Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine,
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Drug resistance: Is resistance associated
variants (RAS) important? Let’s make life easier for perinatally
Teerha Piratvisuth, MD
maintenance regimen)
Director of NKC Institute of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Tavitiya Sudjaritruk, MD, ScM, PhD
Thailand
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine,
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Drug-drug interactions
David Burger, PhD Transition of perinatally HIV-infected
Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen,
children to adulthood
The Netherlands Rangsima Lolekha, MD
Chief, HIV prevention and care among children,
Access to HCV treatment: community adolescents and family Section, Global AIDS
Program Thailand/Asia Regional Office,
perspective
CDC Southeast Asia Regional Office
Giten Khwairakpam, MSW
Project Manager for Community and Policy, TREAT Reproductive health for HIV infected
Asia
adolescents
Surasith Chaithongwongwatthana, MD
Cirrhosis management
Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University,
Piyawat Komolmit, MD, PhD Bangkok, Thailand
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
How to reach, test, treat and prevent
HIV in high risk youth and adolescents
Q&A
Quanhathai Kaewpoowat, MD
Division of Infectious Diseases and
Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University

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THURSDAY JANUARY 18, 2018
08.30 - 09.00 10.30 - 11.00
What are the new drugs in HCV and Comorbidity and ageing in HIV: an
how should they be used? epidemiological perspective

Chairperson: Frank Cobelens, MD, PhD

Chairperson: Peter Reiss, MD, PhD

Teerha Piratvisuth, MD Caroline Sabin, PhD

Director of NKC Institute of Gastroenterology Professor of Medical Statistics and
and Hepatology, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Epidemiology at University College London
Yai, Thailand (UCL) and is Director of the NIHR Health
Protection Research Unit in Blood-Borne and
Sexually Transmitted Infections
09.00 - 09.30
Obstacles and challenges in 11.00 - 11.30
diagnosing, treating and eliminating
TB The collision of diabetes and HIV:
the need for a research agenda
Frank Cobelens, MD, PhD
Susanna Dunachie, MD
Director, Amsterdam Institute of Global Health
and Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
08.30 - 10.00

09.30 - 10.00

10.30 - 12.00
11.30 - 12.00
What’s new on acute infection and Clinical management of aging
cure? patients with HIV
Eugene Kroon, MD Porpon Rotjanapan, MD
SEARCH, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital,
Centre, Bangkok, Thailand Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break

12.00 - 13.30 Satellite Lunch Symposium by GSK & ViiV

Integrase Inhibitor: A new strategy to overcome challenges of 90:90:90

13.30 - 16.30 WORKSHOP

Ballroom: Meeting room 1-2: Meeting room 3-4:

OI and comorbidities Epidemiology and statistics Lab workshop
(Interactive e-voting case studies)
Moderators: Moderators: Moderators:
Sivaporn Gatechompol, MD Stephen Kerr, PhD Sasiwimol Ubolyam
Carlo Sacdalan, MD, MBA Caroline Sabin, PhD Apicha Mahanontharit

Syphilis and HIV Statistical inference in medical

Christina Marra, MD
intervals
University of Washington
Cameron Hurst, PhD 13.30 - 14.45
Dealing with patients who have Biostatistics Centre, Chulalongkorn University,
Bangkok, Thailand New approaches to increase rates of
compromised renal function HIV Testing - Making it easier to have
Chureeratana Bowonwatanuwong, MD Non-inferiority trials: Issues in design, a test
Internal Medicine Department, Chonburi Hospital, analysis and interpretation Philip Cunningham
Chonburi, Thailand
The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales
Matthew Law, PhD
and Chief Operations Officer, St Vincent’s Hospital
Biostatistics and Databases Program, The Kirby Sydney.
Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
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Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of
Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn
University, Bangkok, Thailand

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13.30 - 16.30 WORKSHOP (Continued)

Ballroom: Meeting room 1-2: Meeting room 3-4:

OI and comorbidities Epidemiology and statistics Lab workshop
(Interactive e-voting case studies)

HIV and malignancy Why common statistical errors can 15.15 - 15.45
undermine the reliability of medical
Ploenchan Chetchotsakd, MD HIV Testing algorithms in various
research
Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon clinical trials setting
Kaen, Thailand Stephen J Kerr, PhD
Sasiwimol Ubolyam, MSc
HIV-NAT, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre,
Head of HIV-NAT/Chulalongkorn Clinical Research
Bangkok, Thailand
Laboratory Department, Bangkok, Thailand

Bias and confounding

15.45 - 16.15
Caroline Sabin, PhD
HIV Testing algorithms in service
Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology,
University College London, London, UK Sunee Sirivichayakul, PhD
Head of the Vaccine and Cellular Immunology
Big Data: do the rules of RCT’s apply? Laboratory (VCI Lab), Chulalongkorn University,
Bangkok, Thailand
Arnond Sakworawich, PhD
National Institute of Development Administration Q&A by Facilitators
(NIDA), Bangkok, Thailand
Philip Cunningham
Respondent driven sampling and other Sasiwimol Ubolyam
methods for studying hidden Apicha Mahanontharit
populations
Q&A
Frits van Griensven, PhD
Consultant for HIV Prevention, Thai Red Cross AIDS
Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

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FRIDAY JANUARY 19, 2018
08.30 - 09.00 10.30 - 11.30
Challenges of ART in adults Symposium: Challenges of Implementing Same-Day
Chairperson: Praphan Phanuphak, MD, PhD

Kiat Ruxrungtham, MD
Vice President for Research and Innovation,
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Chairperson: Annette Sohn, MD

same-day ART (20 minutes)
Nittaya Phanuphak, MD, PhD
09.00 - 09.30 Chief of SEARCH, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research
Update on vaccines and Centre, and Chief of Prevention, Thai Red Cross
AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
immunotherapy
Anthony Kelleher, PhD, FRACP, PRCPA
Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Program, How is same-day ART is done in
The Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in South Africa (20 minutes)
Society, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia Linda-Gail Bekker, MD
The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, South Africa

10.30 - 11.30
09.30 - 10.00
08.30 - 10.00

Technology-based interventions to
improve HIV and TB treatment and How same-day ART is done at the
prevention cascades Thai Red Cross Anonymous Clinic
(20 minutes)
Matt Avery, MPH
Technical Director, FHI 360 LINKAGES, Bangkok, Pich Seekaew, MPH
Thailand Program Officer, Prevention Department, The
Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre (TRCARC),
Bangkok, Thailand
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.00 PANEL DISCUSSION ON

Challenges for same-day ART (30 minutes)
1. Same-day HIV testing
2. Same day referral from HIV testing site to ART site Moderator:
3. Screening out life-threatening OI before starting ARV Praphan Phanuphak, MD, PhD
4. What baseline laboratories are critical before starting Director of the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre and
ARV in stable / healthy patients? Director of HIV-NAT, Bangkok, Thailand
5. Adherence

PANEL:

Nittaya Phanuphak, Sasisopin

MD, PhD Kiertiburanakul, MD,
Chief of SEARCH, Thai MHS
Red Cross AIDS Research Linda-Gail Bekker,
Chief, Division of
Centre, and Chief of MD Infectious Diseases,
Prevention, Thai Red The Desmond Tutu HIV Faculty of Medicine,
Cross AIDS Research Centre, South Africa Ramathibodi Hospital,
Centre, Bangkok, Thailand Mahidol University,
Bangkok, Thailand
Iskandar Azwa, MD Supunnee
Associate Professor in Jirajariyavej, MD
Infectious Diseases, Chief, Infection Control
Faculty of Medicine, & Quality Improvement,
University of Malaya, Taksin Hospital, Bangkok
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Thailand

12.00 - 13.30 Satellite Lunch Symposium by Abbott

Point-of-care solutions to fast track 90-90-90: Asia Pacific’s Experience

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