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Overview of the agenda The 2 nd Global HIV Surveillance meeting, Bangkok, 2-5 March 2009. Yves Souteyrand HIV/AIDS Department, WHO, Geneva. Surveillance and epidemiology, " the CONSCIENCE of Public Health ", Jim Curran
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Overview of the agendaThe 2nd Global HIV Surveillance meeting, Bangkok, 2-5 March 2009 Yves Souteyrand HIV/AIDS Department, WHO, Geneva
Surveillance and epidemiology, "the CONSCIENCE of Public Health", Jim Curran • "for public health, epidemiology is equivalent of diagnostic science for clinical care" Kevin DeCock, 2009
Objectives of the meeting • Review the current status of surveillance throughout the world • Share innovations and developments in surveillance and related technologies • Evaluate progress and gaps in global HIV surveillance • Develop a strategic surveillance plan for the next years • Challenges: • Impact of scaling up of HIV/AIDS interventions on surveillance activities • Development of an agenda in a crisis context
Main topics for discussion • Update of the Second Generation Surveillance, including STI surveillance and behavioural surveillance • Monitoring HIV epidemic among High Risk Populations and among TB-infected people • Evolution of surveillance related to scaling up HIV/AIDS interventions (ART, TC, PMTCT): use of program data, case reporting, HIVDR; related ethical issues • Tools and methods for better measuring HIV incidence and HIV/AIDS mortality • Mechanisms based on better data and improved tools for developing EPI estimates, including interventions needs • Process for implementation of HIV surveillance in countries, including: community participation; use of technologies; evaluation of surveillance systems; improved data use for improving response
Methods of work • 108 presentations, 9 plenary sessions, 12 parallel sessions • Overview presentations • Country experiences, backbone of the meeting • Less interested by data than by lessons for implementation: what has worked, what has not and why • Time for discussion
Expected outcomes • Meeting report • Peer journal special issue • Creation of an electronic surveillance journal • Shared vision of the way forward • Lessons learnt • Identification of gaps and priorities • Development of an adequate surveillance agenda, in a financial crisis context • Research agenda for surveillance
Thank you • Merci • Gracias • Spassibo