South Asia Regional Meeting

Tuesday, 19 August 2014: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Tubughnenq 4 (Dena'ina Center)

Winning Battle against HIV/AIDS – Experiences from South East Asia. The symposium will be devoted to highlight the regional experience from approaches used to control the HIV/AIDS in the South-East Asian countries; the lessons learnt and the recommendations for improving the same in the region. The examples will be taken from different South-East Asian countries according to the stages of program development and implementation of individual countries. The speakers will address the main features of innovative projects; how these have influenced the decline in HIV, and the lessons learned.

Moderator:
Vinod K Srivastava, MD
1:30 PM
Current status of HIV/AIDS in the South East Asia Region
Arvind Pandey, PhD, INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH
1:40 PM
Bangladesh
M.S.A.Mansur Ahmed, MPH, Bangladesh University of Health Sciences
1:50 PM
India
Madhulekha Bhattacharya, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare
2:00 PM
Nepal
SB Dixit, Manipal College of Medical Sciences
2:10 PM
Sri Lanka
Janaki Vidanapathirana, Ministry of Health
2:20 PM
Thailand
Suriyadeo Tripathi, MD, National Institute for Child and Family Development , Mahidol University
2:30 PM
Lessons learnt and the way forward
AK Bharadwaj, Government Medical College
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