UNAIDS is pleased to again support the Caribbean Cytometry & Analytical Society's (CCAS) Expert Summit which will be held from August 26th to 30th, 2018 in St. Lucia. CCAS has trained HIV professionals from 23 countries and territories across the region in the diagnosis, laboratory monitoring, treatment and care of people living with HIV.
Last year's summit, "From Care to Cure: Shifting the HIV Paradigm", reached beyond the technical community to share a message of hope with the people of the Caribbean. That message? We can actually end the AIDS epidemic! So it's time the narrative about HIV, and people living with it, changed.
View video messages from CCAS Chair, Professor Clive Landis and UNAIDS Latin America and Caribbean Regional Support Team Director, Dr. César Núñez below.
(View and share other social media messages from Valerie Wilson of Caribbean Med Labs Foundation, Akin Abayomi of Stellenbosch University, Thomas Quinn of Johns Hopkins University, Alexander Pastoors of the Dutch Association of People Living with HIV and others on the UNAIDS Caribbean YouTube playlist for the 2017 CCAS Expert Summit.)
This year the summit continues to review dramatic advances in antiretroviral therapy and the public health benefits of treatment as prevention. Learn more about the 2018 summit and how you can participate. Register online at www.ccasexpertsummit.org. For more information email info@ccasexpertsummit.org
You may access the following distinguished lectures from the 2017 CCAS Expert Summit on the UNAIDS Caribbean YouTube Channel:
Réjean Thomas - A bumpy journey: from lipodystrophy to PrEP
George Janossy - CD4: a marker in time
Phil McCoy - An explosion of technology innovation
Bharat Parekh - Quality diagnostics at the point of care
Thomas Quinn - Caribbean progress toward 90-90-90 targets
Sten Vermund - Treatment as prevention a decade later: The scientific discovery of the year
Mo O'Gorman - A generation of children without HIV: dream or reality?
Clive Landis - An opportunity to re-cast the HIV message on stigma and discrimination
Kevin Robertson - Mind over matter: challenges in neurocognition
Patrice Joseph - Against all odds: Haiti leads the way
César Núñez - Achieving the 90-90-90 targets in Latin America and the Caribbean
Alexander Pastoors - Stigma, the greatest hurdle to ending AIDS
Valerie Wilson - Ten year retrospective on HIV capacity building in the Caribbean
Edward Greene - What is the point? A cure without access
Eric van Gorp - Emerging infections and lessons from the HIV pandemic
Akin Abayomi - Prevention is better than cure: Biosecurity is an imperative
