More languages – more opportunities! The list of AIDS2018 sessions recommended for simultaneous translation into Russian is now made public.
Russian-speaking participants of AIDS2018 will be happy to know that key sessions will be provided with simultaneous translation into Russian. These sessions are: Opening, Rapporteur & Closing, all plenary sessions (8:45-10:30 daily) and all special sessions (13:00-14:00 daily). Other sessions in the list are collected on the basis of feedback collected from EECA region participants and experts as recommended for Russian translation. We will keep you updated!
AIDS2018 sessions with simultaneous translation into Russian |
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| Time | Location | Title | Type of sessions | Organiser/ Chair |
Monday 23 July |
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| Monday 23 July, 19:30 -20.40 | Hall 12 | Opening ceremony keynote address: How to face stigma & discrimination | Plenary Session | Conchita Wurst, Artist, Austria |
Tuesday, 24 July |
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| Tuesday 24 July, 08:30 – 10:30 | Hall 12 | Plenary session: Breaking barriers of inequity in the HIV response | Plenary Session | Charlize Theron, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, South Africa, Stefan Baral, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, United States, Anna Deryabina, ICAP at Columbia University, Kazakhstan Olena Stryzhak, Positive Women, Ukraine, Maneesh Gobin, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Human Rights and Institutional Reforms, Mauritius |
| Tuesday 24 July, 11:00 – 12:30 | Emerald Room | The defence does not rest: Resisting the criminalization of HIV | Oral Abstract Session Track D | Annabel Raw, Southern Africa Litigation Centre, South Africa Florence Adah Adhiambo Anam, The International Community of Women Living with HIV, Kenya |
| Tuesday 24 July, 11:00 – 12:30 | Hall 11A | Harm reduction: I can’t get no satisfaction | Oral Abstract Session Track D | Naomi Burke Shyne, Harm Reduction International, United Kingdom Johanna Mirjam Wildschut, AFEW International, Netherlands |
| Tuesday 24 July, 13:00 – 14:00 | Hall 12 | #PassTheMic: Meaningful youth participation in the fight against HIV | Special Session | Quinn Tivey, The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, United States Charlize Theron, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, South Africa |
| Tuesday 24 July, 13:00 – 14:00 | E105-108 | Active engagement or missing in action: Community voices in HIV research | Oral Poster Discussion Session Track D – Social and political research, law, policy and human rights VENUE |
Prince Bahati, IAVI, Kenya Kawango Agot, Impact Research and Development Organization, Kenya Emily Evens, FHI 360, United States |
| Tuesday 24 July, 13:00 – 14:00 | Hall 11A | #UsToo: Violence against key populations | Oral Poster Discussion Session Track D | Leigh Ann van der Merwe, S.H.E Feminist Collective of Transgender Women in Africa, South Africa Michelle Decker, Johns Hopkins University, United States |
| Tuesday 24 July, 14:30 – 16:00 | Hall 12 | Implementing the SDG agenda to leave no one behind: Innovations in Europe on the fast track to ending AIDS | Symposia Session | Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS, Switzerland Esther Dixon-Williams, EATG, United Kingdom |
| Tuesday 24 July, 14:30 – 16:00 | E105-108 | Lost in transition: Challenges in domestic financing for HIV and human rights | Oral Abstract Session Track D | Nduku Kilonzo, National Aids Control Council (NACC), Kenya |
| Tuesday 24 July, 11:00 – 12:30 | Auditorium | Political resistance to addressing the needs of key populations | Symposia Session | Sigrun Møgedal, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway |
| Tuesday 24 July, 14:30 – 16:00 | Auditorium | Tuberculosis in prisons | Bridging Session | Sabine Hermans, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Netherlands Robin Wood, The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, South Africa |
| Tuesday 24 July, 14:30 – 17:00 | Emerald Room | It is OUR money!: Effective community advocacy to insure domestic resources for sustainable HIV services | Leadership Workshop | Lela Serebryakova, Caucasus University, Georgia Ganna Dovbakh, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA), Lithuania |
| Tuesday 24 July, 16:30 – 18:00 | E105-108 | Diversities in delivery: PrEP from home to clinic | Oral Abstract Session Track C – Epidemiology and prevention research | Rattanawat Janamnuaysook, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Thailand Eduard Sanders, University of Oxford & KEMRI-Wellcome Trust, Kenya |
| Tuesday 24 July, 16:30 – 18:00 | Hall 12 | Realizing rights in the HIV response: Confronting new threats | Symposia Session | Julia Greenberg, Open Society Public Health Program, United States Fatima Hassan, Open Society Foundation, South Africa |
Wednesday 25 July |
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| Wednesday 25 July, 08:45 – 10:30 | Hall 12 | Plenary session: Building bridges from scientific innovation to implementation | Plenary Session | Brad Jones, Weill Cornell Medicine and The George Washington University, United States, Pedro Cahn, Fundacion Huesped, Argentina, Nduku Kilonzo, National Aids Control Council (NACC), Kenya |
| Wednesday 25 July, 11:00 – 12:30 | Auditorium | Drugs, drug policy, harm reduction: A reality check | Symposia Session | Ruth Dreifuss, The Global Commission on Drug Policy, Switzerland John-Peter Kools, Trimbos Institute, Netherlands |
| Wednesday 25 July, 11:00 – 12:30 | E105-108 | Tough choices, smart decisions, maturing responses | Oral Abstract Session Track E – Implementation research, economics, systems and synergies with other health and development sectors | Charles Holmes, Georgetown University, United States Meg Doherty, World Health Organization, Switzerland |
| Wednesday 25 July, 11:00 – 12:30 | Hall 12 | AIDS 2018 Co-chairs’ choice | Oral Abstract Session Cross-Track | – |
| Wednesday 25 July, 13:00 – 14:00 | Hall 12 | Durable control of HIV infections in the absence of antiretroviral therapy: Opportunities and obstacles and Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture: Data to drive equity | Special Session | Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States Deborah Birx, The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), United States |
| Wednesday 25 July, 14:30 – 16:00 | Auditorium | Coinfections: Old and new | Symposia Session | Cristiana Oprea, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania Haileyesus Getahun, World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland |
| Wednesday 25 July, 14:30 – 17:00 | E105-108 | Doing no harm: Practical approaches for safely delivering HIV services with and for key populations | Community Workshop | FHI 360, United States, Law Enforcement and HIV Network, Australia, The International HIV/AIDS Alliance, United Kingdom, Heartland Alliance International, United States; Global Fund, Switzerland, Trans Equality Uganda, Uganda |
| Wednesday 25 July, 16:30 – 18:00 | Hall 12 | State of the ART | Serge Eholie, University Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Cote D’Ivoire Jenny Hoy, The Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Australia |
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| Wednesday 25 July, 16:30 – 18:00 | Auditorium | Nothing about us without us’: Advancing human rights for key populations | Symposia Session | Judy Chang, International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD), United Kingdom Monica Beg, United Nations Office On Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Austria |
| Wednesday 25 July, 16:30 – 18:00 | Hall 10 | Why do we fail in responding to the epidemic among people who inject drugs? | Bridging Session | M-J Milloy, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Canada Anya Sarang, SKOSH, Netherlands Nathasha Martin, University of California San Diego, United States |
| Wednesday 25 July, 18:30 – 20:30 | E105-108 | Scaling Breakthrough Innovations to Transform the Adolescent AIDS Response – A High Level Panel | Non-Commercial Satellite | UNICEF, UNAIDS, IrishAID, IAS |
Thursday, 26 July |
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| Thursday 26 July, 08:45 – 10:30 | Hall 12 | Plenary session: Breaking barriers and building bridges between our responses toward universal health | Plenary Session | Linda-Gail Bekker, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, South Africa, Emily Hyle, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States,Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Kingdom, David Malebranche, Morehouse School of Medicine, United States,Yana Panfilova, Teenergizer, Ukraine |
| Thursday 26 July, 13:00 – 14:00 | Hall 12 | The legacy of Prudence Mabele: Championing gender justice and health equity | Special Session | Shaun Mellors, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, United Kingdom Yvette Raphael, APHA, South Africa |
| Thursday 26 July, 13:00 – 14:00 | E105-108 | Falling off the HIV cascade: Autonomy as a determinant of ART retention among sex workers | Oral Poster Discussion Session Track D – Social and political research, law, policy and human right | Deanna Kerrigan, American University, United States Daughtie Ogutu, African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA), Kenya |
| Thursday 26 July, 14:30 – 16:00 | E105-108 | Preparation and implementation of PrEP demonstration projects: The IMPrEP experience in Brazil, Mexico and Peru | Science Workshop | Valdilea G. Veloso, Fiocruz, Brazil Carlos F. Caceres, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru E. Hamid Vega-Ramirez, Condesa and Condesa-Iztapalapa Specialized Clinics, Mexico Maria Cristina Pimenta de Oliveira, Ministry of Health, Brazil |
| Thursday 26 July, 16:30 – 18:00 | E105-108 | Migration in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Access to healthcare for all? | Leadership Workshop | Johanna Mirjam Wildschut, AFEW International, Netherlands |
| Thursday 26 July, 18:30 – 20:30 | E105-108 | Optimizing the impact of key population programming across the HIV cascade | Non-Commercial Satellite | FHI 360/LINKAGES, amfAR, USAID, CDC |
Friday, 27 July |
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| Friday 27 July, 08:45 – 10:30 | Hall 12 | Plenary session: Building bridges for the next generation | Plenary Session | Anne-Lise Goddings, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom, Romesa Roy William, Star Gate General Hospital, Pakistan O’Cindy Cynthia Samuels, Guyana Sex Work Coalition, Guyana; Gautam Yadav, The Humsafar Trust, India; Reina Buijs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands; Georgia Arnold, MTV Staying Alive Foundation, United Kingdom; Stephanie Sandows, MTV Shuga, South Africa; Given Stuurman, MTV Shuga, South Africa |
| Friday 27 July, 12:30 – 14:00 | Hall 12 | Seizing the moment for TB: Current challenges in TB care and in TB and HIV integration | Special Session | Bill Clinton, Founder of the Clinton Foundation & 42nd President of the United States, United States |
| Friday 27 July, 14:20 – 17:20 | Hall 12 | Rapporteur and closing session | Plenary Session | |
Activities throughout AIDS2018 |
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| 23 – 27 July | Global Village, pavilion 515 | EECA Regional Networking zone ActivEast and campaign Chase the virus, not people! | Global Village | AFEW, EHRA, ECOM, Teenergizer, ECUO, EWNA, ENPUD, Rights Reporter Foundation, All Ukranian Network of PLHIV, Cobatest Network, Silver Rose, «Таkie Dela», IDPC, EVA, GNP+, ITPCru, FAR, Life4me+, FOCUS-MEDIA Foundation, dance4life, EKHN |
Not in the AIDS2018 porgram |
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| Sat 21st July 15.00-17.00 | Nieuwe Achtergracht 170 1018 WV Amsterdam | Theatre Play «Don’t tell anyone». What does it mean to be born with HIV in Ukraine? | Affiliated event | Teenergizer! |
| Thu 26th July 21.00 | Tolhuistuin, IJpromenade 2, 1031 KT Amsterdam, Netherlands | Disco: “From EECA with love” | Party | AFEW |
