SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

Dr. Issa Mbaye Samb, Minister of Health, Republic Senegal

Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Minister of Health, Republic of South Africa

Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, Minister of Health, Republic of Ghana

Dr. Ebrahim M. Samba, Director, African Regional Office, WHO: "The Role of Traditional Medicine In Health Care".

Dr Setou Kaba, Inter-Country Program Adviser, UNAIDS Inter-Country Team/Abidjan: "DEVELOPMENTS IN SCALING UP ACCESS TO HIV CARE AND TREATMENT - 3 MILLION BY 2005".

Dr. Dorothy Balaba, Director, Traditional & Modern Health Care Providers Together Against AIDS (THETA): "Factors that affect the decision to seek treatment by people living with AIDS in the Traditional vs. Modern Health Care System - a Case of Uganda".

Dr. Ben Muneta, President of the Association of American Indian Physicians, Oklahoma, USA: "The Role Of Traditional Medicine In HIV Treatment And Prevention In The United States Native American Population".

Dr Ibra Ndoye, Executive Secretary, National Council Against HIV/AIDS, Senegal: "Realistic Mechanism To Improve Collaboration Between Traditional And Conventional Medicine on HIV/AIDS Challenges In Africa".

Dr. Ossy M.J. Kasilo, Regional Adviser on Traditional Medicine, WHO African Regional Office: "Traditional Medicine and HIV/AIDS In The African Region".

Rt. Rev. Barnabas R.Halem'Imana, Chairman, Uganda AIDS Commission: "achievements of the uganda aids commission with the assistance of modern and traditional medicine practitioners towards the prevention and cure of hiv/aids".

Dr. Leanna J. Standish, Senior Scientist, Bastyr University AIDS Research Center, presenting jointly for Bastyr University and the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, Washington, USA: "a prioritized collaborative search agenda for developing effective, low cost and sustainable natural therapies for people living with hiv".

Professor Gordon L. Chavunduka, President, Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association: "hiv/aids - a view from african traditional medicine".

Dr. Erick G. Gbodossou, President, Association for the Promotion of Traditional Medicine International (PROMETRA), Senegal: "involving traditional healers in finding solutions for the cure of hiv/aids"

Yunzhen Cao M.D. Professor, Associate Director, The AIDS Research Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, Head, The CAMS-ADARC Joint AIDS Research Laboratory, Deputy Director, Think Tank Research Center for Health Development, Consultant, CDC, NCAIDS, China, Research Scientist, ADARC, USA - China: "In Search of the Cure for HIV/AIDS with Chinese Traditional Medicine".

Professor Mame Awa Faye, World Health Organization, Senegal: "Contribution du Groupe Thématique à la réponse à l'épidémie de VIH/SIDA au Sénégal".

Luiz R. R. Castello-Branco. MD, MS, PhD., Head Laboratory of Clinical Immunology. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil: "Importance of Nutrition, Co-Infection and Use of Phytomedicines in HIV/AIDS Treatment in Brazil".

Dr. Rodwell Vongo, President Traditional Health Practitioners Association of Zambia (THPAZ): "THE CHALLENGES OF TRADITIONAL HEALING AND HIV/AIDS".

Dr. Mark Neveu, Vice President, National Foundation of Alternative Medicine, Washington DC USA: "Global Update on Identifying and Evaluating Alternative Therapies for Degenerative Diseases".

Dr. G.A. Balint, WHO Expert, Head, Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Szeged, Hungary: "Integrating Traditional Medicine Into Modern (Orthodox) Medicine: One of the Biggest African Challenges at the Beginning of the 21^st Century".

Professor Emmanuel Bassene, Department of Pharmacy, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal: "Contribution à la connaissance des plantes médicinales utilisées par les tradipraticiens de la ville de Ouagadougou, pour la prise en charge des personnes vivant avec le VIH/SIDA".

Dr. Patricia A. Muehsam, Associate Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York: "(1) Homeopathy for AIDS And Africa: Old Cures For New Diseases?" (2) "Science And The Unseen: Modern Insights Into Ancient Traditions And Possibilities For Real "Cure".

Folami Harris, MPH, Director, Margaret Sanger Centre International, South Africa: "Bridging the Gap between Traditional Healers and Bio-Medical Providers: Lessons from the Field".

Professor Dr. L.A. Pieters, Professor of Pharmacology, University of Antwerp, Belgium, presenting on behalf of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research, Germany: "Phytochemical, Pharmacological and Clinical Evaluation of Traditional Drugs from Guinea against HIV".

Dr. Angha S. Kulkarni, Aids Ayurvedic Care & Counselling Charitable Center, India: "Therapy In AIDS - Maintenance of Health of HIV/AIDS Patients".

Dr. George Acquaye and Jacob Amoah, Pharmacist, M & Jay Health Management Consult, Ghana: "the Potency of MJ Goldoni: arresting and reversing the declining health status of persons living with aids - the asante mampong experience"

Celsa A. Spina, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, and VA San Diego Healthcare System, USA: "A Primary T Cell Model to Study the Effects of Experimental Anti-HIV Treatments In Vitro".