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Title:

F01 Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission: Programme Realities

Venue:

10:30 - 12:00

Program of

Gender-Related Events

XIV International AIDS Conference

Barcelona, Spain

8 – 11 July, 2002

Prepared by Women at Barcelona

Monday, 8 July

Oral Presentations

Title:		C01 Interaction Between HIV and STDs
Venue:			Hall 1:3
Time:	10:30 - 12:00

11:30

MoOrC1015

Comparison of HIV and sexually transmitted infections among asymptomatic women in tanzania and zimbabwe

Title:	C02 HIV Incidence Measurement: Methods and Applications
Venue:			Hall 2:4
Time:		10:30 - 12:00

10:45

MoOrC1040

A new approach to monitoring trends in HIV-1 prevalence, incidence and mother-to-child transmission rates in rural Africa

Title:		D01 HIV Counseling and Testing I
Venue:			Hall 2:3
Time:	10:30 - 12:00

11:30		MoOrD1021		Gender variations in uptake of VCT services among youth in Uganda
11:45		MoOrD1022		Reported and observed HIV counseling by clients seeking Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD), Tuberculosis (TB) and Family Planning (FP) services at various sites in Uganda

Title:		E01 Rethinking Women: Risk and Vulnerability
Venue:			Hall 2:5
Time:	10:30 - 12:00

10:30	MoOrE1023	Indian laws exacerbate the vulnerability of women to HIV
10:45	MoOrE1024	STD/HIV prevention and reproductive health for refugee women: a basic need and human right, Brazil
11:00	MoOrE1025	Gender policy implemented in frame of combat against HIV/AIDS in Central African Republic
11:15	MoOrE1026	Integrated youth development approach: strategy for reduction of women's vulnerability in Nigeria
11:30	MoOrE1027	Playing the odds: Challenges in reducing risk behaviors among HIV-serodiscordant heterosexual couples
11:45	MoOrE1028	Gender role and sexuallity among men and women in Bangladesh: Observation from a qualitative study

10:30	MoOrF1029	Designing an educational video on HIV and pregnancy: HIV-infected women as consultants
10:45	MoOrF1030	Adequacy of feeding recommendations for infants of HIV-infected mothers: assessment of nutrient content, cost and preparation time of breastmilk replacements in the South African context
11:00	MoOrF1031	Mothers-to-mothers-to-be: peer counseling, education and support for women in pregnancy in Cape Town, South Africa
11:15	MoOrF1032	Involvement of men in programs to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV
11:30	MoOrF1033	Low uptake of services in a pilot Prevention of Mother to Child HIV Transmission (PMCT) program in Kisumu, Western Kenya
11:45	MoOrF1034	National program for prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in Thailand: an analysis of policy options

10:45		MoOrF1046		Adapting micro-finance to HIV vulnerable communities: Lessons for scaling up from a Kenyan pilot project targeting female sex workers
11:15		MoOrF1048		Integrating income generation and AIDS prevention efforts: lessons from working with devadasi women in rural Karnataka, India

14:00	MoOrE1067	You can even possibly have a child: Reproduction in the lives of HIV positive women
14:15	MoOrE1068	Reproductive choices and the impact of the medical culture on female sterilization rates among HIV-positive pregnant women in Brazil
14:30	MoOrE1069	HIV-positive women’s use of and attitudes to antiretroviral treatments during pregnancy in Australia
14:45	MoOrE1070	Intrauterine insemination in HIV- serodiscordant couple for male HIV infection
15:00	MoOrE1071	Pregnancy outcomes and follow-up among HIV-infected drug users, France
15:15	MoOrE1072	Impact of perceived HIV risk, history of child loss and spontaneous abortion on desire for pregnancy among ever-married women in Zimbabwe

16:00	MoOrE1111	Changing relations of sexual authority: women's strategies for HIV prevention in Southern Africa
16:15	MoOrE1112	Money, men and markets: Limitations to sexual health empowerment of market women in southwestern Uganda
16:30	MoOrE1113	Community initiatives in sexual and reproductive health and rights issues as a way for HIV/AIDS prevention: experience from Mwanza, Tanzania
16:45	MoOrE1114	The role of unequal relationships of power in shaping women’s experiences of STI symptoms and risk for HIV: Findings from a qualitative study in rural India
17:00	MoOrE1115	Gender differences in the perceptions of reality® Female Condom in Cameroon
17:15	MoOrE1116	Intergenerational sex among adolescents in Zimbabwe

Title:		F04 Developing Youth Friendly Programs
Venue:			Hall 5:7
Time:	16:00 - 17:30

16:45

MoOrF1120

Evaluation of a gender- and culturally-appropriate sexual health promotion program for high-risk African American female adolescents

Satellite Meetings

Empowerment and Participation of Sexworkers in HIV Prevention

Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Venue: Room 2D

Sponsored by: International Network for Sexwork Projects

Mobilizing for Microbicides

Time: 20:30 – 22:30

Venue: Hall 2, Room 3

Sponsored by: International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM)

Skills Building Workshops

Workshop Title: Gender, transgender and the research agenda: Community based research practice

Code: SB02

Time: 10:30-13:30

Venue: Room 2:A

Language: English

Description: This workshop will allow participants to design effective research tools and programs that promote the participation of transgendered persons as equal partners and leaders in HIV prevention efforts. Participants will be trained in research methods with a special focus on HIV prevention information and explore the importance of ethnicity and location in the creation of projects to serve transgendered persons.

Workshop Title: Stimulating community development among Sex Workers

Code: SB05

Time: 10:30-13:30

Venue: Room 2:D

Language: English

Description: This workshop will teach innovative methods to reach sex workers in HIV prevention and care. We will draw on international experiences that will highlight issues that need to be addressed in working with sex workers, as well as exploring ways of incorporating sex workers as an affected community into the design and running programs on HIV prevention and care. The workshop will build on skills necessary to stimulate, support and sustain community development among sex workers.

Workshop Title: Sampling the female genital tract: Assay collection methods

Code: SB06

Time: 10:30-13:30

Venue: Room 2:E

Language: English

Description: This workshop will discuss the issues around the sampling of the female genital tract for virologic, immunologic and pharmacologic assays. The workshop will have hands-on demonstrations of collection methods. The relative strengths and weaknesses of the assay collection methods will be discussed for virology, immunology, and pharmacology.

Workshop Title: Skills for integrating social, cultural and psychological aspects of sexuality in AIDS prevention programs

Code: SB13

Time: 14:30-17:30

Venue: Room 2:B

Language: Spanish

Description: Through interactive techniques, such as --story-telling; "bodily dynamics"; drama; clay and reflection-- the workshop will provide participants with an opportunity for interpersonal interaction, a sense of ownership and vicarious experiences of how sexuality ought to be incorporated to strengthen HIV/AIDS prevention programs and to improve life skills of people living with HIV/AIDS. Through analysis participants will initiate a process of understanding value-systems in their community.

Women at Barcelona/Mujeres Adelante

Conference Site

17:45 – 18:45 Daily Briefing and Advocacy Session

Mujeres Adelante Community Site Round Tables

Place: Pati Maning; C/ Montalegre no 7; Barcelona 08001

Metro L2 and L1 Universidad (approximately 15 minutes walking distance from conference site)

9:00 – 10:30 Professionals Working with HIV/AIDS

10:30 – 11:30 Mujeres Adelante Opening ceremony

11:30 – 13:00 Gender and HIV/AIDS

13:00 – 14:30 HIV/AIDS: From the Specific to the Global

14:30 – 16:00 How to Use Networks

16:00 – 17:30 Microbicides and the Female Condom

Tuesday, 9 July

Oral Presentations

Title:		PL02 Prevention Strategies in the XXI Century
Venue:			Palau St. Jordi
Time:	08:30 - 10:00

09:35

TuOr145

Empowerment of women in HIV prevention
Suniti Solomon, India

Title:		B06 Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT)
Venue:			Hall Verdi
Time:	10:30 - 12:00

10:30	TuOrB1174		Effect of Nevirapine (NVP) for perinatal HIV prevention appears strong among women with advanced disease: Subgroup analyses of HIVNET 012
10:45	TuOrB1175		Successful nevirapine-based prevention of mother-to-child transmission in Southern Ukraine
11:00	TuOrB1176		Uptake of interventions to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission: nevirapine and exclusive breastfeeding in the Zambia exclusive breastfeeding study (ZEBS)
11:15	TuOrB1177		Breastfeeding and late postnatal transmission of HIV-1: an individual patient data meta-analysis (Breastfeeding and HIV International Transmission Study)
11:30	TuOrB1178		Effectiveness of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission program and the influence of feeding options in an urban hospital in Kampala, Uganda
11:45	TuOrB149	Translating science into practice: Moving from PMTCT to MCH plus

Title:	D04 STD Treatment for HIV Prevention
Venue:			Hall 2:3
Time:		10:30 - 12:00

14:15		TuOrD1151		A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of monthly azithromycin to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV in Kenyan female sex workers
14:30		TuOrD1152		Rapid and sustainable reductions in curable STDs among urban sex workers in the Philippines

Title:		E04 Trans/formations: Gender, Sexuality and AIDS
Venue:			Hall 2:5
Time:	10:30 - 12:00

10:30	TuOrE1156	The Morphology and ritual classifications of transgenderered persons in Mumbai, India
10:45	TuOrE1157	Investigation of the high rate of HIV prevalence in the transgender African American community in San Francisco (USA)
11:00	TuOrE1158	Right to Sexual Identity - Legal concerns of the eunuch community in India
11:15	TuOrE1159	HIV prevention and educational needs of trans youth
11:30	TuOrE1160	A Tear for Lucinda:a biographic film about the jail experience of a transsexual with AIDS
11:45	TuOrE1161	Gender Identity and HIV Risk: reaching the transgender community via the Internet

Title:		E05 Turning Tricks: Sex Work and HIV/AIDS
Venue:			Hall 2:5
Time:	14:00 - 15:30

14:00	TuOrE1202	Legislation and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS among commercial sex workers in Kampala city
14:15	TuOrE1203	Prevalence of transactional sex in an antenatal clinic population in South Africa
14:30	TuOrE1204	Perceived faith-based invulnerability to HIV infection among female sex workers in Nigeria
14:45	TuOrE1205	HIV risk behavior among male sex workers in Budapest, Hungary
15:00	TuOrE1206	Sex tourism as potential contributor to transmission of HIV/AIDS; case study of boys who have sex with men in Ghana
15:15	TuOrE1207	Innovative strategic approach breaking all conventional barriers for reaching out to most marginalised & vulnerable group viz. Eunuchs (Transgender) for control of STD/HIV/AIDS in Mumbai, India

Title:		Bs06 Movement on Microbicides
Venue:			Hall Verdi
Time:	14:00 - 15:30

14:00	TuOr162	Opportunities and challenges in pre-clinical and clinical research
14:15	TuOr163	Rectal microbicides
14:30	TuOr164	Acceptability, use and access
14:45	TuOr165	Policy and resource mobilisation

Title:		D06 Prevention Technologies Among Women
Venue:			Hall 2:3
Time:	16:00 - 17:30

16:00	TuOrD1233	Structural integrity of the polyurethane female condom after multiple cycles of disinfection, washing, drying and re-lubrication
16:15	TuOrD1234	Female condom use among HIV infected women: a prospective study
16:30	TuOrD1235	Family planning and condom use among postpartum women with HIV-1 in the US
16:45	TuOrD1236	Diaphragms are well accepted in sexually active Zimbabwean women
17:00	TuOrD1237	Missed opportunities for counseling to minimize the dual risk of pregnancy and STI/HIV acquisition at South African family planning clinics
17:15	TuOrD1238	Relationship-based HIV/STD intervention for women and their regular sexual partners

Satellite Meetings

Expanding Access to Female-Controlled Prevention: Lessons Learned Globally and Implemented Locally

Time: 20:30 - 22:30

Venue: Room 2C

Sponsored by: The Female Health Foundation

Skills Building Workshops

Workshop Title: Using storytelling as a strategy in women's healing

Code: SB24

Time: 10:30-13:30

Venue: Room 2:E

Language: Spanish

Description: The main objective of this workshop is to help you (facilitator of a women's group) to use Folk and Fairy Tales as a tool for exploring issues related with the female gender. This work will allow you to help the members of your group work on gender roles, feelings of helplessness, despair, lack of self-esteem and others key issues, thus contributing to a better understanding of themselves and their relationships. In this workshop we will explore the overall dynamics of how to choose and work with different stories within different life situations.

Workshop Title: Addressing gender issues in HIV/AIDS prevention: Strategies from the South African "Men as partners" program

Code: SB28

Time: 10:30-14:30

Venue: Room 5:6B

Language: English

Description: This workshop will expose participants to a series of interactive, highly personal and reflective activities that explore societal messages about men's and women's roles, relationships between the sexes, power imbalances based on gender, and gender-based violence. All of the activities will be conducted by South African facilitators and EngenderHealth staff who have used these activities in communities in South Africa. The workshop will explore how these activities can help prevent HIV transmission and how they can be adapted for use in different communities and programs.

Women at Barcelona/Mujeres Adelante

Conference Site

17:45 – 18:45 Daily Briefing and Advocacy Session

Mujeres Adelante Community Site Round Tables

Place: Pati Maning; C/ Montalegre no 7; Barcelona 08001

Metro L2 and L1 Universidad (approximately 15 minutes walking distance from conference site)

9:00 – 10:30 Daily Briefing and Advocacy Session

10:30 – 12:00 Shifting the Paradigm of Prevention Toward Gender

12:00 – 13:30 Specific Actions and Models of Prevention

13:30 – 15:00 Specific Prevention Interventions: Sex Work & Drug Use

15:00 – 16:30 Specific Prevention Interventions: Younger & Older Women

16:30 – 18:00 Specific Prevention Interventions: Lesbians and Immigrants

Wednesday, 10 July

Oral Presentations

Title:		E07 Social Fury: Sexual Violence and Masculinity
Venue:			Hall 2:5
Time:	10:30 - 12:00

10:30	WeOrE1279	Monitoring violence against sex workers, Dhaka, Bangladesh
10:45	WeOrE1280	Forced sex and physical violence in Brazil, Peru and Thailand: WHO multi-country results
11:00	WeOrE1281	Istimela: gang rape in South Africa
11:15	WeOrE1282	Sexual violence, pressure and HIV in rural Mwanza, Tanzania
11:30	WeOrE1283	Masculinities in Peru: Discourses do not reflect practices
11:45	WeOrE1284	Marital violence in India: women’s heightened vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

Title:		Bs08 MTCT: Room for Solutions
Venue:			Hall 1:2
Time:	10:30 - 12:00

10:45

WeOr194

MCTC+, Wafaa El-Sadr, United States

14:00	WeOrD1314	SAMMA is a novel microbicide which inhibits human immunodeficiency virus and herpes simplex virus entry
14:15	WeOrD1315	Inhibition of vaginal transmission of HIV-1 in hu-SCID mice by a microbicide containing an NNRTI - Dapivirine. (TMC120)
14:30	WeOrD1316	A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind expanded safety trial of Carraguard™ microbicide gel in South Africa: Signs and symptoms of genital irritation
14:45	WeOrD1317	A safety study of dextrin sulphate gel as a novel vaginal microbicide: data from HIV negative and positive women
15:00	WeOrD1318	A year-long, randomized, controlled clinical trial of a carrageenan gel as a vaginal microbicide: Effect on reproductive tract infection (RTI) rates
15:15	WeOrD1319	Will shifts from condom to microbicide use increase HIV risk? Model projections

Title:		G08 Developing and Influencing National Policy
Venue:			Hall 2:2
Time:	14:00 - 15:30

15:00

WeOrG1336

African First Ladies Alliance Against AIDS: Leadership in action
J Kagame¹, S Thurman²
¹First Lady, Kigali, Rwanda; ²International AIDS Trust, Washington, DC, United States

Title:		D09 Methodologic Issues in Prevention Research
Venue:			Hall 2:3
Time:	16:00 - 17:30

16:45		WeOrD1353		Measuring relationship power: adaptation of the SRPS for South Africa
17:00		WeOrD1354		Informed consent in a phase II trial of the potential microbicide, Carraguard™: lessons learned

Title:		Bs10 Addressing Mobile and Migrant Populations
Venue:			Hall 1:2
Time:	16:00 - 17:30

16:45

WeOr223

Transnational AIDS/STI prevention among migrant prostitutes in Europe

Skills Building Workshops

Workshop Title: Maximum impact coalition building: HIV and Violence against women and girls

Code: SB38

Time: 10:30-13:30

Venue: Room 2:A

Language: English

Description: This workshop will demonstrate how to build on the powerful work already being done in HIV, violence against women and related fields such as human rights, child protection, sex trafficking, public health, economic parity, etc., to develop multi-disciplinary nationwide coalitions on a scale never before attempted. The workshop will use pilot projects in South Africa, India and New Mexico to train participants to bring these coalitions to their country.

Workshop Title: Women Speaking Up: Female leadership and advocacy skills

Code: SB40

Time: 10:30-13:30

Venue: Room 2:C

Language: English

Description: Many women who are at risk or infected with HIV can improve their health and quality of life by advocating for themselves and others. In this workshop participants will learn techniques for HIV+ women around empowerment and self-advocacy, to be used in both personal relationships and community activism. As HIV transmission rates increase in women there is a greater need for women centered services and feminine leadership styles in the planning and provision of HIV/AIDS services. This workshop will devote time and space to recounting our successes and exploring ways of defining gender-based power and influence.

Workshop Title: Gender, HIV/AIDS and Safe Sex: How to empower women in self-esteem and negotiation skills

Code: SB51

Time: 14:30-17:30

Venue: Room 2:D

Language: English

Description: The workshop is aimed at providing a training space to understand the gender construction of sexuality. Participants will leave the workshop with skills and an enhanced understanding of the critical change agents involved in how to empower women to negotiate safe sex, and how to integrate components on self-esteem development, assertiveness in their ongoing work.

Women at Barcelona/Mujeres Adelante

Conference Site 17:45 – 18:45 Daily Briefing and Advocacy Session

Mujeres Adelante Community Site Round Tables

Place: Pati Maning; C/ Montalegre no 7; Barcelona 08001

Metro L2 and L1 Universidad (approximately 15 minutes walking distance from conference site)

9:00 – 10:30 Daily Briefing and Advocacy Session

10:30 – 12:00 Feminism, Faith, and HIV/AIDS

12:00 – 13:30 Violence Against Women

13:30 – 15:00 Women’s Human Rights: Work Place, Immigration, & Reproductive Health

15:00 – 16:30 Women’s Human Rights: Drug Users and Inmates

16:30 – 18:00 Women’s Access to HAART

18:00 – 20:30 International Community of Women Living with AIDS (ICW) Reception

Thursday, 11 July

Oral Presentations

10:30	ThOrG1415	The sexual rights campaign: a policy and advocacy intervention to reduce HIV/AID, violence against women and unplanned pregnancy, South Africa
10:45	ThOrG1416	Transgender: Civil rights and HIV/AIDS prevention, Buenos Aires, Argentina
11:00	ThOrG1417	Interventions to counter trafficking of children and their impact on vulnerability of sex workers, Mumbai, India
11:15	ThOrG1418	Two years of safer sex promotion work in escort agencies and massage parlours: a review of an NGO's successes and difficulties, Cape Town, South Africa
11:30	ThOrG1419	Anti-lesbian rape, HIV and the human rights of South African lesbians
11:45	ThOrG1420	Serenading to the tunes of violence – the tip of the iceberg of the sexual violence faced by the Kothis during Lagan, Kolkata, India

Title:		SyD03 Mother to Child Transmission
Venue:			Hall Verdi
Time:	10:30 - 12:00

10:30	ThOrD1426	Preferential in-utero transmission of HIV-1 subtype C compared to subtype A or D
10:45	ThOrD1427	Neonatal post-exposure prophylaxis with nevirapine and zidovudine reduces mother-to-child transmission of HIV
11:00	ThOrD1428	Effectiveness of a short course of zidovudine + nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV-1: The Ditrame Plus ANRS 1201 Project in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
11:15	ThOrD1429	Missed opportunities of perinatal HIV prevention among HIV-exposed infants born 1996-2000, Pediatric Spectrum of HIV Disease Cohort
11:30	ThOrD1430	Acceptance of and adherence to zidovudine and infant formula for preventing mother-child HIV transmission, Bangkok, Thailand
11:45	ThOrD1431	Strategic approaches to preventing HIV infections in infants: balancing priorities

Title:		Bs12 Gender and Sexual Difference
Venue:			Hall Verdi
Time:	14:00 - 15:30

14:00	ThOr250	Unique aspects of HIV-1 transmission to women, Ludo Lavreys, Kenya
14:20	ThOr251	Sex and gender differences in disease manifestation and clinical management
14:40	ThOr252	Gender and sexuality: Difference and diversity, Gary Dowsett, Australia
15:00	ThOr253	Mobilizing men for gender equality, MacDonald Maswabi, Botswana

Title:		C11 Morbidity and Mortality Patterns in the HAART Era
Venue:			Hall 1:3
Time:	14:00 - 15:30

15:15

ThOrC1448

Gender, disease progression and response to HAART

Title:		F12 Grappling with Gender Issues in HIV Prevention
Venue:			Hall 5:7
Time:	14:00 - 15:30

14:00	ThOrF1461	Policy of the Female Condom - An Approach of Gender in the Prevention of (to) Sexually Transmitted Disease/Aids in Women, Brazil
14:15	ThOrF1462	What do health care providers think about microbicides? Views from five NYC agencies
14:30	ThOrF1463	Improving the assessment of microbicide acceptability
14:45	ThOrF1464	Symbolic aspects of condoms and preventive practices as related to the social construction of masculinity, Mexico City, Mexico
15:00	ThOrF1465	Best practices in STI-prevention for women in Europe
15:15	ThOrF1466	Eritrea: conflict, sexual violence and HIV: support to victims and communities

15:15

ThOrF1478

Operationalizing an effective community development intervention for reducing HIV vulnerability in female sex work: Lessons learned from the Sonagachi Project in Kolkata, India

Title:		C12 Determinants of HIV Transmission
Venue:			Hall 1:3
Time:	16:00 - 17:30

17:00

ThOrC1489

Early age of coital debut and intergenerational sex are risk factors for HIV among Zimbabwean women

16:30

ThOrF1516

Rwanda family package: Capacity expansion of medical care and support services for hiv-infected mothers and their families

Satellite Meetings

Women’s Symposium Debate

Controversial HIV Issues Facing Women in the New Millennium: A Debate

Time: Thursday, July 11, 2001; 18:00 – 22:00

Venue: Fira Palace Hotel, Verdi Room, at the Fira Conference Center

Sponsored by: International AIDS Women’s Caucus(IAS)/ICW; Women at Barcelona

Microbicides Basic Science Network

Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Venue: Room 2A