OSF, INHSU, TREAT Asia Medical/Advocacy Seminar:
Hepatitis C Treatment for People who Use Drugs (PWUD)
Rembrandt Hotel, Bangkok
December 8+9, 2014
Monday December 8, 2014
8.00
Registration desk open by the conference room
9.00
Welcome remarks and introductions
9.20
Seminar Overview & Logistics
9.30
Framing the issue: Hepatitis C treatment for PWUD
Greg Dore (INHSU)
In an ideal world: What hepatitis C treatment among PWUD should look like
9.40
Hepatitis C therapeutic development: in pursuit of perfectovir
Greg Dore (INHSU)
10.10
Strategies to enhance HCV treatment uptake and outcomes for PWUD
Jason Grebely (INHSU)
10.50
Coffee/Tea break
11.20
Models of care for HCV treatment and care
Jason Grebely (INHSU)
12.00
Morbidity and mortality among PWUD: competing risks and needs
Greg Dore (INHSU)
12.40
Lunch
In reality: What hepatitis C Treatment access among PWUD looks like? The physician perspective
13.40
Experiences and issues in delivering HCV treatment among PWUD
Moderated panel discussion featuring doctors at the country-level describing the situation of
hepatitis C treatment access and care among PWUD
Moderator- Greg Dore (INHSU)
Other considerations- Diagnostics and HIV Co-infection
15.00
Diagnostic tests in the HCV management
Nicolas Durier (TREAT Asia)
15.30
Coffee/Tea break
16.00
Management of HIV-HCV Co-infection:
Greg Dore (INHSU)
16.20
Findings on HCV disease, and HCV treatment in HIV co-infected patients in the
TREAT Asia study
Nicolas Durier (TREAT Asia)
16.50
Close
Evening Reception
18.30-21.00
Film Screening + Dinner/Cocktails by the pool
Fire in the Blood: An intricate tale of 'medicine, monopoly and malice', FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the
story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost
AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 - causing ten million or
more unnecessary deaths - and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.
Shot on four continents and including contributions from global figures such as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu
and Joseph Stiglitz, FIRE IN THE BLOOD is the never-before-told true story of the remarkable coalition
which came together to stop 'the Crime of the Century' and save millions of lives in the process.
As the film makes clear, however, this story is by no means over. With dramatic past victories having given
way to serious setbacks engineered far from public view, the real fight for access to life-saving medicine is
almost certainly just beginning.
Tuesday December 9, 2014
Advocacy- Access to Treatment
9:00
Reflections from the film
Azzi Momen (OSF)
9.15
Experiences from the ground- Civil Society Advocacy for affordable and accessible
hepatitis C treatment (National and Global)
Moderated panel discussion
Moderator- Karyn Kaplan (Treatment Action Group)
10.30
Coffee/Tea break
11.00
Where are we at in terms of treatment access?
Updates on HCV drug pricing, registration, patents, voluntary licenses, etc.
Giten Khwairakpam (TREAT Asia) & Leena Menghaney (MSF, Access Campaign)
11.40
Health policies that impact treatment access for PWUD- financing, insurance,
guidelines/protocols, etc.
Moderated Panel Discussion
Moderator- Azzi Momen (OSF)
12.40
Lunch
Advocacy- Why we need to prioritize PWUD and what stands in the way
13.40
HCV re-infection & other common arguments to not treat PWUD:
Niklas Luhmann & Elisabeth Avril (Médecins du Monde)
14.20
Who to treat, when, and with what?
Moderated Group Discussion
Nicolas Durier (TREAT Asia)
15.00
Coffee/Tea break
15.30
What are the barriers and what advocacy needs to happen at the
country/regional/international levels?
Country, regional, and global team breakouts to discuss advocacy opportunities/plans
16.30
Report back
17.30
Closing Remarks