Lung-Ji Chang OCM

HIV-Prevention Research


          Scientific Federation cordially inviting you to attend the 2nd International Conference & Expo on HIV-AIDS-2018 which will be held in Toronto, Canada during September 17-18,2018. This year we focused on the Theme of ACCELERATING ADVANCEMENTS IN HIV-AIDS TO THE GLOBE.

                         

          HIV-AIDS-2018 will provide the excellent opportunities for the researchers, scientists, professors, delegates and students from all over the world exchange information on HIV-AIDS which contains plenary sessions, keynote speeches, poster, and oral presentations on HIV-AIDS On Emerging area on Immunology, Microbiology, Infection&Imunnity, Public Health, Infectious Diseases, Virology, Pathology, Psychology, Biochemistry, Epidemiology, Gynaecology, Global Health, and Population Health.

Major Session on Conference in HIV&AIDS-2018 is Prevention Research and Interventions for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS:

          Description:  The National Institutes of Health, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and the HIV/AIDS Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration support the CDC's Serostatus Approach to Fighting the HIV Epidemic. One aim of the strategy is to help individuals living with HIV adopt and sustain HIV and STD risk reduction, treatment adherence, and effective strategies for coping with HIV/AIDS. Efficacious interventions are needed by community organizations and clinics that provide evidence-based services. To expedite translation from research to practice, we convened scientist-practitioners, HIV treatment and prevention providers, and community/consumer members.



          Definition: The World Health Organization guidelines on when to start antiretroviral therapy and on pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV. Qualitative data was sort of health care providers working at the public family planning clinic and other key informants working with young women. They were identified by the study staff using local networks to document perspectives on factors influencing young women’s decisions to take up and adhere to PrEP as an HIV prevention strategy.  Textual data coding as a primary qualitative analytical approach was used to summarize, extract meaning and condense the data using Nvivo.

          Research Information: HIV is the leading cause of death among adolescents aged 10–19 in sub-Saharan Africa and the second most common cause of death among adolescents globally, yet this population is not significantly targeted for HIV research. Consequently, there is a dearth of appropriate evidence-based interventions that expressly focus on their HIV needs and the stages of their development. Despite the advances made in HIV prevention, care, and treatment worldwide, adolescents are the only population whose death rates from AIDS are not declining in sub-Saharan Africa. The majority of these deaths occur among adolescents who were infected at birth and infancy. Access to and uptake of HIV testing and counseling among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa is significantly lower compared to adults, and antiretroviral therapy coverage rates for adolescents living with HIV are also significantly lower compared to other populations living with HIV. This signals the need for deliberate, appropriate, and targeted adolescent HIV programs if the tide of adolescent deaths from AIDS is to be stemmed. Many of the previously implemented HIV prevention interventions for adolescents failed. This is because they did not focus on the factors critical to adolescent development. Integrating developmental factors into the overall context in which HIV transmission occurs is critical to building strong and appropriate HIV prevention interventions that work for adolescents.

          Current Research: Current treatment for HIV/AIDS with highly active antiretroviral therapy can be effective but often associated with numerous side effects yet still without a cure. Extensive efforts have been poured into the clearance of the hidden viral reservoir and eliciting immune resistance to HIV. Lent viral anti-HIV hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy offers a potential final solution to this endeavor. We have developed an anti-HIV stem cell gene therapy strategy based on the combination of an advanced lent vector system and multiple anti-HIV genes. A novel lent vector has been established that can simultaneously express microRNA to block endogenous CCR5 expression, a sequence-modified CCR5Δ32 gene to interfere with the function of native CCR5, and multiple selected anti-HIV shRNAs to target viral RNAs.  In vitro assays demonstrated that ectopic expression of CCR5Δ32 protected against R5-HIV-1 infection. In addition, the expression of a CCR5 miRNA effectively blocked R5-HIV-1 infection. The further addition of an intronic cassette incorporating miRNAs targeting three viral RNA sites including HIV-1 pol, int, and vpu, had shown marked anti-HIV effects. Evidence supports that transduction of adult CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells with this anti-HIV multi-gene vector does not impair hemopoiesis of the HSCs. Thus, autologous HSC transplantation to ectopically express CCR5Δ32 and multiple miRNAs targeting endogenous CCR5 and three highly conserved HIV-1 genomic sites may provide an ultimate cure to end HIV-1/AIDS.




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Keynote Speakers

HIV-AIDS
                       
          Scientific Federation cordially inviting you to attend the 2nd International Conference & Expo on HIV-AIDS-2018 which will be held in Toronto, Canada during September 17-18,2018. This year we focused on the Theme of ACCELERATING ADVANCEMENTS IN HIV-AIDS TO THE GLOBE.

Scientific Sessions:
  • Clinical Research
  • HIV Revolution
  • Epidemiology and Prevention Research
  • Advances in systems and synergies with other Health and Development Sectors
  • HIV Incidence Surveillance
  • HIV Case Surveillance
  • Prevention Research and Interventions for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS
  • Advances in HIV Testing Technology
  • HIV Program Planning and Evaluation
  • HIV Testing Programs in Health Care and Non-Health Care Settings
  • Biomedical and Behavior Prevention Programs
  • HIV Community Planning & Participatory Approaches to HIV Prevention
  • HIV-Related Policy, Economics, and Program Integration
  • Structural, Policy, and Environmental Interventions.

          Conference sessions will bring you the latest strategies, research, and best practices to improve outcomes through quality, safety, and staffing. Attendees will learn from evidence-based research and discover innovations they can start using immediately. Join your peers at a conference for focusing on quality outcomes.

Keynote Speakers:
     1) Hiroshi Ohrui:
       Title of Presentation: EFdA: An Extremely Excellent Anti-HIV Nucleosides,-How it was developed, and the clinical results.
          Prof. Hiroshi Ohrui received Ph. D. degree from The University of Tokyo.                     
            He Joined RIKEN and moved to Tohoku University. He moved to the Yokohama University of Pharmacy.
         He worked for Dr. J. J. Fox at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (1972-1973) and for Dr. J. G. Moffatt at Syntex Research (1973-1974).
            He received several awards including Inoue Prize for Science (1991), Japan Prize for Agricultural Sciences (2004), The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award (2004), and Japan Academy Prize (2001). His research interests cover Organic Synthesis, Chemical Biology, and Chiral Discrimination.

     2) Saeed Bayanolhagh:
          Title of Presentation: Challenges and obstacles of HIV detection based on new algorithms.
          Dr. Saeed Bayanolhagh was Head of Iranian HIV research center. He established an HIV/AIDS basic science laboratory that performs testing for a full range of HIV/AIDS diagnosis tests and research projects in Iranian HIV research center in Imam Hospital in heart of Tehran, Iran. Saeed has 15 years’ experience in HIV research fields. Previously he worked as a scientific adviser at Iranian cell culture producer, Gooya Innovative Biotech Company. He was also head of HIV detection group in ELISA and Chemiluminescence department in Pouya Zist tech Company, Tehran, Iran previously. He worked as Quality Control manager in HIV diagnosis assay department at Biotechnology development center Pasteur Institute of Iran for 10 years. Saeed has research interests in HIV basic science researchers especially HIV Vaccines, HIV diagnosis methods, Immuno - viral interaction and Immunopathogenesis.

     3) J. Anitha Menon:
          Title of Presentation: Dilemma on disclosing or not disclosing HIV status- A qualitative analysis of perceived experiences from Lusaka, Zambia.
           Prof. Anitha Menon is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology, University of Zambia and the Chairperson for the University of Zambia Committee on HIV and AIDS. She is also the President of the Psychology Association of Zambia
. She holds Ph.D. in Health Psychology from University of Nottingham, UK. For more than 20 years Prof. Menon has been actively involved in various researches and service related projects pertaining to areas on public interest, her major research interest pertains to the issue of HIV and well-being and psychological well-being of adolescents, Neuropsychological Challenges of HIV, Sexual Harassment and Communication Skills of Health Practitioners. She has several publications on various national and international journals and has been featured in various media reports. She was the recipient of the award for the Best Professor in Psychology from World Education Congress (2012) and the Change Fellowship (2012), received the ‘Women Leadership Achievement Award’ from Women’s Leadership Congress (2014), the Labor Day Award from University of Zambia for Innovation and Excellence in May 2014, Most Influential Woman in Education and Training sector from CEO global -Country and Regional Awards (September 2017), Continental Award (November 2017).



          HIV-AIDS-2018 will provide the excellent opportunities for the researchers, scientists, professors, delegates and students from all over the world exchange information on HIV-AIDS which contains plenary sessions, keynote speeches, poster, and oral presentations on HIV-AIDS On Emerging area on Immunology, Microbiology, Infection&Imunnity, Public Health, Infectious Diseases, Virology, Pathology, Psychology, Biochemistry, Epidemiology, Gynecology, Global Health, and Population Health.

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