ISSTDR Program overview
SUNDAY 10 JULY 2011
12:00 -
13:30   ROCHE Satellite Symposium

Satellite Symposia of partner’s organizations

8:45 - 17:00  Key Population and Their Role in STD/HIV Transmission Dynamics
9:15 - 17:00 
The 11th International symposium on Haemophilus ducreyi Pathogenesis and Chancroid
14:00 - 17:00 Oh...Canada! The Current Context: STI Epidemiology, Guidelines and Partner Notification Practices. Sponsored by the Public Health Agency of Canada
14:00 - 17:00 Meeting of the International Collaboration on Gonococci

17:30 – 19:00    Opening CeremonyKeynote Speaker: Dr. Paul De Lay, UNAIDS, Geneva
Title: Reconfiguring the AIDS response
19:00 – 20:00    Welcome Reception
MONDAY 11 JULY 2011
7:00 -
8:30   Abbott Satellite Symposium
12:00 - 13:30  MERCK Satellite Symposium

7:00 - 8:30 
Training session for scholarship recipients and young investigators
8:30 - 10:00 
Plenary session 1Global Syphilis Prevention and Control : Challenges & Opportunities
3 speakers
Francis J. Ndowa: The global epidemiology of syphilis and the challenges and opportunities to address maternal and congenital syphilis
Barbara Romanowski:  Syphilis: Advances in the diagnosis, antimicrobial resistance and management
Gail Bolan: Preventing syphilis: new approaches in light of shifting key populations
10:30 - 12:00 Symposium 1Measurement of Sensitive Behaviour
10:30 - 12:00 Symposium 2Rapid Tests as Tools to Transform Policy, strengthen Health Systems and Save Lives (sponsored by WHO/TDR and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
10:30 - 12:00
Epidemiology oral session 1Chlamydia
10:30 -   12:00 Behavioural aspects of prevention oral session 1Changes over time: Evolution of individual and population level patterns
10:30 -  12:00
Clinical sciences oral session 1Syphilis: Enhanced Approaches for Detection & Characterization
10:30 -   12:00
Basic sciences oral session 1Genomics, replication and pathogenesis
10:30 - 12:00
Health Services and Policy oral session 1Innovation technology
10:30 - 12:00
Epidemiology oral session 2Human Papillomavirus
13:30 - 14:15
Plenary session 2Concentrated, mixed and generalized epidemics - typologies and effectiveness of core group interventions
Speaker: David Wilson
14:45 -   16:15
Symposium 3Evaluation of large-scale and complex public health interventions
14:45 -  16:15
Symposium 4Speeding up Elimination of Congenital Syphilis with Rapid Syphilis Testing: Progress and Challenges (sponsored by WHO)
14:45 -   16:15
Symposium 5Unsolved Challenges in Women’s Sexual and Genital Health
14:45 - 16:15
Epidemiology oral session 3Bacterial resistance
14:45 -   16:15
Behavioural aspects of prevention oral session 2Innovative STD and HIV preventive interventions: intended and unintended consequences
14:45 -  16:15
Clinical sciences oral session 2Genital Human Papillomaviruses & Trichomoniasis
14:45 -  16:15
Basic sciences oral session 2Immunity and animal models
14:45 -  16:15
Epidemiology oral session 4STI and HIV among youth
16:15 - 17:00 Special plenary session Antiretroviral therapy for the prevention of HIV: where are we now and where are we going?
Speaker: Myron S. Cohen
17:00 - 18:30
Poster session

19:00 – evening President’s dinner (upon invitation)

TUESDAY  12 JULY 2011
7:00 -
8:30   GENPROBE Satellite Symposium
12:00 - 13:30  BD Satellite Symposium

7:00 - 8:30 
Training session for scholarship recipients and young investigators
8:30 - 10:00 
Plenary session 3 The Perfect Storm : STD Control and the Emergence of HIV (30 min)
Speaker: Jacques Pépin

Plenary session 4Evolution of STI Pathogens in Context of Changing Environment: Biology and Behaviour (1 hour)
Two speakers:
Max Essex: Evolution of the HIV-1C epidemic in southern Africa and lessons for controlling an uncontrollable virus
Jane Carlton: A Trich-y parasite: genomics, population genetics and evolution of Trichomonas vaginalis
10:30 - 12:00 Symposium 6Updates and perspectives on STI and HIV issues among MSM
10:30 - 12:00 Symposium 7In the quest for HIV prevention Scale up: Avahan’s India experience. Program Approaches and Emerging Evaluation Results
10:30 - 12:00
Symposium 8The Global Public Health Challenge of Untreatable Multi-Drug Resistant Neisseria gonorrheae 'Superbug' (MDR-GC). Sponsored by the Public Health Agency of Canada
10:30 -   12:00 Epidemiology oral session 5Vaginal infections
10:30 -  12:00
Behavioural aspects of prevention oral session 3Sexual and diagnostic behaviours: issues in measurement
10:30 -   12:00
Clinical sciences oral session 3Diagnostic Testing: Chlamydia & Gonorrhoea
10:30 - 12:00
Health services and policy oral session 2Evaluation of services and policies
10:30 - 12:00
Epidemiology oral session 6Planning of HIV preventive interventions
13:30 - 14:15
Plenary session 5Trichomoniasis: Why is It the Neglected STD?
Speaker: Marcia Hobbs
14:45 -   16:15
Symposium 9Applications of Program Science in the Field of STI
14:45 -  16:15
Symposium 10Strategic Approaches for Addressing Sexual Health: Lessons. Challenges and Opportunities (sponsored by the CDC)
14:45 -   16:15
Symposium 11Controversies in Serologic Testing for Syphilis (sponsored by the CDC)
14:45 - 16:15
Epidemiology oral session 7Neglected issues in anal STIs and transmission
14:45 -   16:15
Behavioural aspects of prevention oral session 4STI and HIV Risk Reduction Strategies: Considerations of cost, cost-effectiveness and potential impact
14:45 -  16:15
Clinical sciences oral session 4Treatment: Chlamydia, Gonorrhea & Related Syndromes
14:45 -  16:15
Health services and policy oral session 3Partner notification
14:45 -  16:15
Epidemiology oral session 8STIs and HIV in female sex workers
16:15 - 18:00
Poster session

19:00 – evening  Banquet

WEDNESDAY  13 JULY 2011
 7:00 -
  8:30
SIEMENS Satellite Symposium


7:00 - 8:30 
Training session for scholarship recipients and young investigators
8:30 - 10:00 
Plenary session 6Sex, Science and Social Politics: Implications for STI and HIV Prevention in the 21st Century
3 speakers:
Alain Poirier: The “black box” between research and intervention
Mary Ann Chiasson: HIV/STI Prevention: Using Epidemiology to Change Behavior
Margaret Fast: Prevention of STBBIs. Do we know where we're going? Do we know how we're getting there? 
10:30 - 12:00 Symposium 12Current Topics on Human Papillomavirus
10:30 - 12:00 Symposium 13Respondent Driven Sampling: where we are and where should we be going?
10:30 -
12:00 Late Breaker Symposium
Questioning Azithromycin for Uncomplicated Genital Chlamydial Infection
10:30 - 12:00
Epidemiology oral session 9Use of observational data and mathematical modelling for impact evaluation
10:30 -   12:00 Behavioural aspects of prevention oral session 5Individual, Structural and Contextual Coping Strategies: Diverse causes and solutions
10:30 -  12:00
Clinical sciences oral session 5Treatment: Syphilis, Herpes, & Bacterial Vaginosis
10:30 -   12:00
Health services and policy oral session 4Screening
10:30 - 12:00
Epidemiology oral session 10Men who have sex with men
12:00 - 13:30
ASTDA Lunch & awards The 30 Year War Against HIV/AIDS: Have We Reached The Tipping Point?
13:30 -   15:00
Symposium 14Research in Progress: Updates from American STD Association (ASTDA) Developmental Award Recipients
13:30 -  15:00  Symposium 15 STI epidemiology in Europe: challenges for prevention and control (sponsored by ECDC)
13:30 -   15:00  Epidemiology oral session 11Various topics of special interest
13:30 - 15:00  Behavioural aspects of prevention oral session 6STD and HIV Risk: geographic, demographic and behavioural heterogeneity
13:30 -   15:00  Clinical sciences oral session 6Clinical Advances in Diagnosis & Screening
13:30 -  15:00  Late breaker abstracts session
15:15 -  16:30
Summary and Highlights
Anne Buvé:Rapporteur for track 1 (Epidemiology)
Jami S. Leichliter: Rapporteur for track 2 (Behavioural aspects of prevention)
Barbara Van Der Pol:Rapporteur for tracks 3 and 4 (Clinical and basic sciences)
Ameeta Singh: Rapporteur for track 5 (Health services and policy)

13:30 - 16:15 
Training session for scholarship recipients
Publishing in Clinical and Public Health Research
16:30 - 17:30 
Closing CeremonyKeynote Speaker : Jeffrey Klausner : Responding to STI and HIV in the digital age? 
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