HIV/AIDS workshop for Oralhealthcare Providers

[Guest guest]

“ORAL HEALTHCARE Providers and HIV/AIDS” workshop”

4th, 5th – GOA, 8th Hyderabad, 11th, 12th – CHENNAI, MARCH, 2006

Despite so much of quality work happening across the world…The UN deadline --

set in 2001 -- of halting the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015 will not be met on

current rates of progress, with serious consequences for those countries worst

affected by the disease.

The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to expand: during 2004, almost 5 million new

infections occurred: 63.0% in sub-Saharan Africa, 18.0% in South and South-east

Asia, 5.9% in East Asia and 4.8% in Latin America.

In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the numbers living with HIV are still

relatively low, but the rate of increase is extremely high, with 210,000 new

infections in the past year. Over 3.0 million people died in 2004, and an

estimated 39.4 million people are living with the disease (95% in poor and

middle-income countries, about 65% in sub-Saharan Africa and 4% in Eastern

Europe and Central Asia).

· With the disease reaching such high proportions are we sure that we are not

seeing HIV positive persons in our clinics?

· When the person walks into our clinic, are we able to tell if the person is

HIV positive or negative?

· Do patients declare their HIV status when they come to our clinic?

· Are we part of the team that is responsible for a comprehensive delivery aimed

at the HIV positive person?

· How do we address stigma and discrimination while treating a HIV positive

person?

· Thee list of questions seems endless…does it not!!!!

AVNI Health Foundation, Goa State AIDS control Society, Tamilnadu State AIDS

control Society, Goa Dental College and Hospital - Goa, Indian Dental

Association – Chennai, Sri Sai college of dental college of Surgery- Vikrabad,

the Dept. of Comprehensive Dentistry, University of Alabama School of Dentistry,

the School of Dentistry, and University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

collaboratively propose to address this important issue by a series of capacity

building workshops for Oral Healthcare providers.

Through the proposed workshop we hope to be able to answer these questions and

jointly arrive at a consensus on the way forward!!!.

The workshop has been designed based on a NEEDS ASSESSMENT done by the

foundation amongst 150 dentists in India.

Specific Objectives of the proposed workshop are:

· To briefly review and discuss the current state of knowledge of

epidemiological/ etiological/ immunological / clinical and management aspects of

HIV/AIDS

· To discuss in detail the oral manifestations of HIV/AIDS and their diagnosis

and management

· To discuss various issues related to dental management of HIV/AIDS patients

· To discuss infection control measures in dental practice with special

reference to HIV/AIDS and co-morbidities such as Hepatitis B and Tuberculosis

· To review and discuss occupational exposure risk in dental practice and

management of post exposure prophylaxis

· To present and discuss some useful HIV/AIDS (Dental) case studies

· To sensitize dentists to the issues of stigma and discrimination around HIV

/AIDS

Resource persons who will conduct the workshop:

School of Dentistry, UWI, Trinidad and Tobago

Prof. SR Prabhu, Professor of Oral Medicine and Head of Oral Disease Unit School

of Dentistry and Associate Dean, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of

the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

University of Alabama School of Dentistry at Birmingham (UAB), USA

Dr. Jeffery Hill, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Comprehensive Dentistry,

University of Alabama School of Dentistry, University of Alabama School of

Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama

AVNI Health Foundation, Mumbai, India

Ajey Bhardwaj, A Public Health professional who will facilitate the entire

workshop. Through the foundation Mr Bhardwaj has been associated with various

projects viz: HIV/AIDS, Mentally challenged Children, Emergency Obstetric Care,

Certificate courses in Public Health.

Local Faculty: Experts in the field of HIV/AIDS

Workshop Material: The following materials will be available at the workshop

1. Resource Manual “Oral Health and HIV/AIDS "

2. HIVWEB study a CASE based interactive CD

3. Soft copies of all the material we will be presenting at the workshop

4. The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA (UAB) Continuing Medical

Education (CME) certificate for 8 Credit Hours*

Given the nature of the workshop ONLY 100 seats are available for the workshop.

Pre-registration is a Must to block your seat. We will UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES be

able to ACCOMMODATE more that 100 persons.

NO SPOT REGISTARTIONS AVAILABLE

Visit us at www.avnihealth.org or contact us at avnihealth@... to register

online.

*Conditions apply. Visit our website for the details.

Ajey Bhardwaj

AVNI HEALTH FOUNDATION

Email:avnihealth@...

Website: www.avnihealth.org