Events Calendar 2013

May 2013

Italian Conference on AIDS and retrovirus (ICAR 2013)

ICAR (Italian Conference on AIDS and Retrovirus) was founded five years ago as an Italian conference on AIDS. The conference is designed to offer the scientific community and voluntary associations a venue for exchange, discussion and advances on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection and related diseases, and to promote scientific research in this field. The fifth edition plans to confirm ICAR’s original spirit and vision by promoting presentation of the best scientific production, focusing on contributions from young researchers and the latest results of studies on widely debated topical issues.

Date: 12 to 14 May 2013
Location: Torino, Italy

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GBCHealth 2013 Conference and Awards

Once a year GBCHealth convenes business and allied leaders to inspire deepened business engagement on the world’s pressing health challenges. This year’s Conference will be our most important and exciting yet, with a sharp focus on how business can better align its work with achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Your work is already making a difference. GBCHealth 2013 will help inspire and guide you towards making an even greater impact. The 2015 MDG deadline is fast approaching, and GBCHealth 2013 will focus more than ever on how companies can craft their health and sustainability efforts to contribute to achieving these internationally agreed-upon targets. Sessions will focus on the most immediate actions that businesses can take to drive impact in line with MDGs. Commitments and announcements will be made during the conference. The biggest voices will be with us, including the top leaders invested in MDG acceleration from the United Nations the MDG Health Alliance and the Global Fund.

Date: 15 to 17 May 2013
Location: New York City, NY, USA

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The Three Zeros of Eliminating HIV / AIDS: Global Science and Policy

The UNAIDS "three zeros" strategy provides a clear vision for future HIV / AIDS research and policy. This symposium tackles communication and collaboration, capacity-building for HIV prevention, care, and treatment, vaccine trials and a case study.

Speakers: Chris Beyrer (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Deborah Birx (CDC), Myron S. Cohen (UNC School of Medicine), Chris Collins (amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research), Tim Horn (Treatment Action Group), Rick King (IAVI), Luiz Loures (UNAIDS), Mary A. Marovich (NIAID), Nelson L. Michael (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research), Julio Montaner (BC Centre for Excellence in HIV / AIDS), John P. Moore (Weill Cornell Medical College), Robert R. Redfield (University of Maryland School of Medicine), Annie Sparrow (Mount Sinai Global Health), David Stanton (Office of HIV / AIDS, USAID), Daniel Tietz (ACRIA), Mitchell Warren (AVAC)

Date: 17 May 2013
Location: New York City, NY, USA

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30 years of HIV Science: Imagine the Future

May 2013 will mark the 30th year since the publication in Science reporting for the first time the identification of a retrovirus associated with AIDS-related syndromes, now referred to as human immunodeficiency virus. To celebrate this anniversary, the Institut Pasteur in collaboration with the U.S. National Institutes of Health, ANRS and sidaction is organizing an international symposium. The objective of this symposium is not to trace the history of the discovery of the virus, but to focus on the critical challenges and the future priorities that remain in HIV science as a result of 30 years of fantastic achievements. Distinguished international speakers will share their findings and their vision of the priorities of HIV research in the coming years. The symposium will gather a broad array of participants: senior scientists, young investigators, students and clinical researchers working in HIV and related areas from developed as well as resource-limited countries. Approximately 500 participants are expected to attend.

Date: 21 to 23 May 2013
Location: Paris, France

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June 2013

International Harm Reduction Conference 2013

This key event in the harm reduction calendar is being organised by Harm Reduction International in partnership with the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network. The official conference theme is ‘The Value/s of Harm Reduction’, which will provide focus on the urgent need to ensure sufficient political and financial support to address the HIV epidemic driven by injecting drug use in many parts of the world, and well as the ethical basis of the harm reduction philosophy.

Date: 9 to 12 June 2013
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania

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HIV Drug Therapy in the Americas

This 3-day scientific meeting will build upon the Glasgow UK HIV Drug Therapy meeting heritage to establish an accessible and regionally relevant programme focusing on a range of issues relating to HIV treatment. A truly global faculty will meet in São Paulo to discuss, during plenaries and case-based presentations, topics of real interest to those working within the ‘Americas’ region. Abstract presentations will, like Glasgow, promote audience participation and discussion.

Date: 13 to 15 June 2013
Location: São Paulo, Brazil

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July 2013

2nd International HIV Social Sciences and Humanities Conference

The conference theme is ‘KNOWING PRACTICES’ and this dual concept poses questions about the multiple practices that comprise the dynamics of the epidemic and how the practice of knowing itself, is engaged and operationalised. ‘KNOWING PRACTICES’ refers to:

1. The practices that produce, reproduce and transform the social worlds in which people live. This includes what knowledge we have of the forces shaping the epidemic - whether social, structural, geographic, historical, political or economic - and their connection to practice; and
    
2. The different ways of ‘doing science’ or knowing (and unknowing), that is, on the ways in which we as scientists claim to have evidence

Within the theme of ‘KNOWING PRACTICES’, we ask what sorts of knowing and un-knowing practices are assembled and enacted as ‘authentic’, ‘valid’, ‘verifiable’? What role is there for the social sciences and humanities in the increasingly biomedical vision of the future by science and its funders? Indeed, in what ways does the promise articulated at AIDS 2012 – that biomedicine will eradicate HIV and end the epidemic – put in place strategies that simultaneously evade the complexity of the everyday nature of living and working with HIV? How can the social sciences and humanities produce knowledge that has an impact on the many forces that shape the epidemic?

Date: 7 to 10 July 2013
Location: Paris, France

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September 2013

2013 United States Conference on AIDS (USCA)

USCA is the largest AIDS-related gathering in the U.S., bringing together over thousands of workers from all fronts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic—from case managers and physicians, to public health workers and advocates, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) and policy-makers—to build national support networks, exchange the latest information and learn cutting-edge tools to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS.

Date: 8 to 11 September 2013
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA

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North American Housing & HIV/AIDS Research Summit VII

The National AIDS Housing Coalition (NAHC), the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN), and la Coalition des organismes communautaires québécois de lutte contre le sida (COCQ-SIDA) are pleased to convene the seventh Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit. As the premiere venue for informing HIV/AIDS housing policy, the 2013 Summit -with the theme of Closing the Housing Gap in the HIV Treatment Cascade-will bring together researchers, policy experts, and consumers and providers of HIV/AIDS housing from across North America to present and discuss research findings and policy initiatives focused on the relationship between housing status and HIV prevention and care.

Date: 24 to 27 September 2013
Location: Montreal, Québec, Canada

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October 2013

The Social Aspects of HIV and AIDS Research Alliance (SAHARA) Conference

The Social Aspects of HIV and AIDS Research Alliance (SAHARA), established in 2001 by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), is an alliance of partners established to conduct, support and use social sciences research to prevent the further spread of HIV and mitigate the impact of its devastation in sub-Saharan Africa. Its mission is to conduct HIV/AIDS multi-country studies that generate evidence for policy-making and programme development; to build individual and organisational research capacities and to effectively disseminate research findings, through its biennial SAHARA conference, its internationally-accredited journal SAHARA Journal (SAHARA-J) and its network of researchers, policy makers and practitioners.

Date: 7 to 10 October 2013
Location: Dakar, Senegal

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14th European AIDS Conference (EACS)

The European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) will offer an exciting scientific conference programme, composed of state of the art plenary lectures as well as abstract-driven sessions presenting latest original research in the field of HIV medicine. As a special feature the 15th International Workshop on Co-morbidities & Adverse Drug Reactions in HIV will be affiliated with this EACS conference to allow for stimulating synergies in addressing issues concerning long-term care which are of common interest.

Date: 16 to 19 October 2013
Location: Brussels, Belgium

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November 2013

11th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP11)

ICAAP is the largest HIV/AIDS forum held in Asia and the Pacific region. For over 20 years, ICAAP has played a key role in raising public awareness, building political commitment, strengthening advocacy networks and disseminating knowledge on HIV/AIDS issues among key affected populations and other stakeholders in the region. Each ICAAP is organized by a Local Organizing Committee (LOC) to enhance ownership and strengthen the positive impact on the host country.

The theme is Asia/Pacific Reaching Triple Zero: Investing in Innovation.

Date: 18 to 23 November 2013
Location: Bangkok, Thailand

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December 2013

17th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA 2013)

The ICASA conference remains one of the most important events in the calendar of the year, contributing towards overcoming the HIV and TB epidemics that grip our region. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the most affected region with over 22 Million people living with HIV and AIDS and the highest Tuberculosis rates world-wide. Through scientific advancements in the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of HIV significant progress has been made to reduce the mortality and morbidity of AIDS. Prevention efforts have been accelerated by the progress in biomedical interventions to reduce HIV transmission.

Date: 7 to 11 December 2013
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

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