Putting Our Best Foot Forward: Getting the Best Treatment to the Most People Possible (TUSA10)

Co-Chairs:
Morolake Odetoyinbo, Nigeria
Nathan Ford, United Kingdom

Organiser:
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders

Speakers:
Nathan Ford, Morolake Odetoyinbo, Sharonann Lynch, Tom Decroo, Pedro Cahn, Leena Menghaney

The scientific promise of beginning to reverse the epidemic through treatment as part of combination prevention is tempered by major funding gaps. However, now is the time to push forward with the most innovative treatment strategies, the most robust drug regimens, and enabling policies to make treatment more affordable. Such innovations can both help countries struggling to provide care, and those that are striving to move faster. The panel will make a case for change: changing our pace of scale-up of ART to reach more people sooner in their disease progression; changing our models of treatment delivery to increase the number of people we reach, treat, and retain; changing our treatment options to include more potent and forgiving drugs; and structurally changing the way medicines are developed so that the success of beating back HIV does not hinge on a patent expiry.

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18:30 Welcome
M. Odetoyinbo, Nigeria
18:38 It’s a matter of time
TBA
18:48 HIV policy dashboard: tools and strategies across 17 countries
S. Lynch, United States
18:58 Models of care to reach and retain more people
T. Decroo, Mozambique
19:08 Future treatment options
P. Cahn, Argentina
19:18 Enabling policies: threats & opportunities
L. Menghaney, India
19:30 Respondents: Have they made the case for change?

 

Date/Time

July 24 18:30 - 20:30, Session Room 2

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