In observance of World AIDS Day, the National Aids Programme Secretariat (NAPS) will be hosting an inaugural Continuing Medical Education (CME) HIV/STI (Sexually Transmitted Infections) conference on December 4, according to the Department of Public Information.
The conference will be held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre from 09:00 hours to 13:30 hours.
NAPS’ Programme Manager, Dr Tariq Jagnarine during a recent interview said the objective is to provide healthcare personnel CME to understand the evolution of HIV and STI treatment.
“The entire objective of this conference is that a lot of new best practices have been coming out with HIV…many new guidelines came out last year, in fact, the HIV guideline was updated last year. The STI guidelines, new approaches in terms of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), NPEP (Nonoccupational HIV Postexposure Prophylaxis), self-testing, new changes in treatment for STIs and many persons out there are not updated,” Dr Jagnarine disclosed.
DPI added that the conference will also be opened to the public and persons will be able to access free STI and HIV testing and other health services.
Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs), private and civil society bodies will have booths set up as well.
