Top2Btm MSM Symposium

17 May 2011

Programmes Info

The Anova Health Institute, with support from PEPFAR, will be conducting a national symposium on HIV among MSM, with an emphasis on prevention, treatment and care, over the period 23 – 25 May 2011, at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town.

The symposium is aimed at focusing awareness on various developments related to HIV among MSM in an African context. The symposium will highlight recent significant developments in terms of research focusing on MSM, including both bio-medical and psychosocial components of prevention, and highlight the growing experience in providing MSM focused HIV treatment and care in South Africa. The conference audience includes researchers, service providers, health service managers and advocates.

The conference will commence late afternoon of May 23rd 2011 and close on the afternoon of 25 May 2011.

For more information on the Top2Btm MSM Symposium, download the programme below.

RELATED PRESS:

Minister of Health to open MSM symposium , 19 May 2011

Putting MSM on the radar, Health-e news service, 23 May 20111

Health care sector unfriendly to gay men, Health-e news service, 26 May 2011

More research into HIV and MSM needed, Mambaonline, 26 May 2011

Not enough done to reach MSM, Mambaonline, 24 May 2011

 

PRESENTATIONS FOR DOWNLOAD:

 

Day 1

Opening address: Keynote Speech by the Minister of Health, Aaron Motsoaledi, delivered by Dr. Yogan Pillay, Chief Director of Strategic Planning at the National Department of Health.

Dr. Chris Beyer (Director, Center for Public Health and Human Rights  Progerssor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore)  Time to Act: Responding to the HIV Pandemic Among Men Who Have Sex With Men

Dr. James McIntyre (Executive Director, Anova Health Institute & Honorary Professor, School of Public health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town)  Introduction: Top to Bottom - Prevention, Treatment and Care

 

Day 2

Dr. Stefan Baral (Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of Public Health, Baltimore)  The Burden on HIV, the Status of Prevention Sciences & Human Rights Contexts Among MSM in Africa

Prof. Linda-Gail Bekker (Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, Cape Town) Preventing HIV in MSM in Africa

Dr. Anita Radix (Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, Brooklyn, New York) HIV Prevention & Treatment Needs of Transgender Individuals

Prof. Vasu Reddy (Research Director, Human and Social Development Reserach Programme at the HUman Sciences Reserach Council) HIV Prevention Needs for South African MSM

Dr. Patrick Sullivan (Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Emory Univerisity's Rollins School of Public Health)  Using Technology in Working with MSM

Dr. Greg Jonsson  (Senior Psychiatrics, Luthando Psychiatric HIV Clinic, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital) Mental Health and MSM Youth

Dr. Gordon Isaacs (Psychosocial Coordinator, SWEAT) Male Sex Worker Group Narratives Highlighting Health & Human Rights Concerns

Dr. Oscar Radebe (Senior Medical Advisor, Health4Men - Anova Health Institute, Simon Nkoli Center for Men's Health) Challenges in HIV Care for MSM

Dr. Kevin Rebe (Medical Director, Health4Men - Anova Health Institute, Ivan Toms Center for Men's Health) Prevention for Positives

Dr. Johan Hugo (Senior Medical Advisor, Health4Men - Anova Health Institute, Ivan Toms Center for Men's Health) Tea with Crystal

Mr. Glenn de Swart (Health4Men, Anova Health Institute) Mainstreaming MSM

Ms. Melissa Meyer (HIV/AIDS and the Media Project, Anova Health Institute & Wits Journalism Programme) MSM in the Media

 

Day 3

Dr. Elizabeth Mbizvo (Population Council) Improving Access and Delivery of Comprehensive Postexposure Prophylaxis (PEP) for Sexual Assault

Dr. Michael Laurino (Anova Health Institute, Health4Men)  Postexposure Prohylaxis in Practice

Prof. David Lewis (Head, STI Referecne Centre, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service) STIs and MSM: A Top, Front and Bottom Approach

Zukiswa Fipaza (Population Council) Men who have sex with men in Africa

Steve Letsike (OSISA & SANAC LGBTI Sector and SANAC Women's Sector) From Silence to Response: LGTI Issues in South Africa & Beyond Borders

Dr. Rob Stephenson (Rollins School of Public Health, Emory Universiy, Atlanta) Attitudes Towards Couples-based HIV Counseling And Testing Among MSM in Cape Town

Dr. Kevin Stoloff  (Dept of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UCT) Pills, Personality & Powders: Clinical Challenges in MSM Mental Health

Dr. Sipho Dlamini (Infectious Disease & HIV Medicine,Groote Schuur Hospital) Opportunistic Infections in MSM

Dr. Claire Warden (Groote Schuur Hospital) Anal Cancer & MSM

Dr. Neliswa Gogela (Liver Center, Groote Schuur Hospital) Hepatitis among MSM

Prof. Carolyn Williamson (Head, Division of Medical Virology, Univeristy of Cape Town) HIV Subtypes Circulating in MSM Cape Town: 1990s compared to 2010

Mr. Kirk Fiereck (Columbia University, Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences) Sexuality, Scientific Cultures & the Politics of Classification in South Africa

Mr. Geoff Jobson (Anova Health Institute) Towards Understanding HIV Risk and Prevention Among MSM in Cape Town

Dr. Tim Lane (Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco) HIV Interventions for MSM in South Africa

Dr. Kristin Dunkle (Assitant Professor, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Health Education & Investigator at Cetner for AIDS Reserach, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta) So How Many South African Men Have Sex With Men?

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