For the 18th ISSDTR in conjunction with BASHH, Symposium & Scientific Programme, please click here.
For the Programme at a Glance, please click here.
If your abstract has been accepted for an oral presentation, please click here to dowload the oral presentation guidelines. Alternatively, if your abstract has been accepted for a poster presentation, please click here to download the poster presentation guidelines.
Historic STI Walk
Pox and pleasure: A guided walk through Medical London
Mike Jay editor of Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures, will be leading a walk through the historic streets of London from 4pm -6pm on Monday 29th June. Soho and Covent Garden contain many worlds - the rag trade, the film business, high fashion and high art - but they also retain their age-old face as London's pleasure hub, offering entertainment, intoxication and sex. Pox and Pleasure brings to life centuries of thrill-seeking and its consequences, and the medical characters who have always lurked in its shadows: some offering discreet cures for over-indulgence, others campaigning to cleanse the city of its filth. Go in the footsteps of William Hunter, John Snow and the less celebrated quacks and medical missionaries who combine to tell the story of medicine and disease in the grubby heart of the West End.
More detail on the walk, the maps and the book can be found http://www.medicallondon.org/index.html and about Mike Jay at http://mikejay.net
The assembly point for the walk is Exit 4 of Tottenham Court Road tube, on the Centre Point steps, and the time is 4pm –The walk should wrap up around 6pm at Piccadilly Circus tube. Copies of Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures, will be available for purchase at the conference on the UCL stand.
Please click here to register for the STI Walk now.
Please click here for more information on the ASTDA Luncheon taking place on Wednesday 1 July, 12.45-13.45 in the Fleming Room.
On Sunday 28th June, 10.00 - 17.00 there will be a Symposia on,
Epidemiology and Prevention of STDs:
The Role of Emergent Properties and Structural Patterns
This will take place at the QEIICC and for the programme, please click here.
10th International Symposium on Haemophilus ducreyi Pathogenesis and Chancroid
Sunday 28th June, 09.00 - 16.00 at the QEIICC.
For the preliminary programme, please click here and for more information , please click here. To register for this symposium please click here.
Preliminary Scientific and Professional Programme
The main and special sessions will cover all aspects of tracks A-D including the latest diagnostic methods, pharmaceutical approaches and novel interventions.
The Scientific Programme has been designed to appeal to a broad spectrum of delegates working across the full range of subspecialties. Dialogue will be fostered through a range of formats – keynote and plenary lectures, parallel special sessions, all with invited speakers, oral papers, poster sessions and scientific symposia.
Track A: Biology and Detection
Track B: Treatment and Care
Track C: Transmission Dynamics
Track D: Population Interventions
Track A: Biology & Detection
Topic areas:
- Microbial pathogenesis and ecology
- Microbicides
- STI/HIV interactions
- Vaccine research
- STI/HIV diagnostics
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Immunology
Track B: Treatment & Care
Topic areas:
- Health systems & policy
- Measuring the impact of health services
- Clinical management
- Patient level interventions to prevent transmission & re-infection
- Communication technologies in sexual health care
- Advances in education
Track C: Transmission Dynamics
Topic areas:
- STI surveillance, monitoring and evaluation
- Global trends & population mobility
- Observational epidemiological & socio-behavioural studies
- Modelling epidemics
- Molecular epidemiology
- Challenges & threats of emerging infections
Track D: Population Interventions
Topic areas:
- Socio-behavioural interventions to prevent STI/HIV
- Biomedical interventions to prevent STI/HIV
- Methodological issues and capacity-building in epidemiological and prevention research
- Prevention policy
- Cost-effectiveness studies
- Social and economic contexts
In addition to Track A-D you can also choose to submit your abstract as a Pathogen or Disease topic, please see below.
Pathogens
Topic areas:
- Treponema pallidum
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae
- Chlamydia trachomatis serotypes D-K
- Chlamydia trachomatis, L1,2 and 3 serotypes
- HIV
- Herpes simplex
- Human papilloma virus
- Hepatitis viruses A-D
- Ureaplasma urealyticum
- Gardnerella vaginalis
- Klebsiella
- Candida albicans
- Trichomonas vaginalis
- Haemophilus ducreyi
Diseases
Topic areas:
- Syphilis
- Gonococcal infection
- Genital Chlamydia
- Lymphogranuloma venereum
- AIDS
- Genital herpes
- Genital warts; CIN; AIN
- Hepatic disease
- Non-gonococcal urethritis
- Bacterial vaginosis
- Donovanosis
- Genital candidiasis
- Trichomonisasis
- Donovanosis
Late Breaker - Emerging Themes
To be considered as a Late breaker your abstract must be on a major study for which the results will not be available until after the deadline. However, the abstract must be submitted by the deadline, 28 January 2009 and the results submitted by 1 May 2009 to be printed in the book of abstracts.
There will be a cross-cutting theme to address Emerging Issues and Debates. This will be fully participatory, and provides an opportunity for delegates to engage in lively discussion on current controversies in STIs, and to make their views heard. Possible topics include:
Evolving STIs: disappearing and emerging diseases, and the potential for elimination
- When is a disease sexually transmitted?
- How can we target screening of STIs in the wider population – measurement issues in risk characteristics beyond sexual behaviour.
- Communication technologies and tele-healthcare: from PDPT to internet pharmacies.
- Methodological issues in cluster randomised trials and the control of confounding: current debates
- Structural interventions and incentivisation.
- Risk compensation in the field of STIs: does the evidence add up?
- Travel, migration and sexual opportunity.
- The dynamic topology of service development – what are the lessons?
