CROI 2020 Program and Conference Information

Oral Sessions

Conveners Karin Nielsen-Saines , University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA Victor Musiime , Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda 54 SYPHILIS CAUSES STILLBIRTH: PENICILLIN IS PREVENTION Melanie Taylor , World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 55 CHLAMYDIA AND GONORRHOEA IN PREGNANCY: SILENCE OF THE GERMS Nicola Low , University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 56 MOTHER-TO-CHILD TRANSMISSION OF HEPATITIS B: CAN IT BE ELIMINATED? Yusuke Shimakawa , Institut Pasteur, Paris, France 4:00 4:30 5:00

57 BEYOND THE STIGMA: A SORELY NEEDED PERSPECTIVE ONHSV 5:30

Anna Wald , University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Symposium S-03WHAT MAKES EPIDEMICS RECEDE Ballroom C 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Target Audience: This session is directed to clinicians and scientists who are interested in understanding the current status, challenges, and successes in HIV epidemic control in different global settings. Level of Knowledge: It is assumed that the participants are familiar with basic epidemiological terms and HIV epidemiology. Objectives: At the completion of the session, participants will be able to: • Describe the geographic settings where the implementation of public health strategies have decreased HIV incidence • Describe the strategies that must be implemented to achieve the goals for decreasing HIV incidence Conveners Victoria L. Mobley , North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, NC, USA Maria Prins , Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands 58 REFLECTIONS ON THE UK EPIDEMIC Valerie Delpech , Public Health England, London, UK CME 4:00

Oral Sessions • Monday

59 30-PLUS YEARS OF HIV IN RAKAI: THE EPIDEMIC RECEDES Joseph Kagaayi , Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda 60 BATTLING HIV IN THE US RURAL SOUTH Leandro A. Mena , University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA 4:30 5:00

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