At the AIDS 2012 Conference, several of URC's technical experts presented on various topics, including chronic and palliative care, provider-initiated HIV counseling and testing, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), standards of care for vulnerable children, the role of expert patients, and the cost-effectiveness of improving HIV services.

Monday, July 23 @ 12:30 p.m. (Exhibition Hall D on level two)

• MOPE699: The impact of the quality improvement approach on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) outcomes in Benin (presented by Ms. Sara Riese)

• MOPE751: Helping people with HIV help themselves: a comprehensive approach to improving chronic HIV care and treatment in Uganda and Tanzania (presented by Dr. Suzanne Gaudreault)
  

• MOPE754: Saving lives and money by improving ART services in Nicaragua (presented by Dr. Edward Broughton)
  

• MOPE708: Achieving better HIV care through combined performance management and quality improvement approaches (presented by Dr. Tana Wuliji)

Tuesday, July 24 @ 12:30 p.m. (Exhibition Hall D on level two)

• TUPE725: Community-led improvements in quality of services to vulnerable children in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania (presented by Dr. Diana Chamrad)
  

Wednesday, July 25 @ 12:30 p.m. (Exhibition Hall D on level two)

• WEPE688: Integrating provider initiated HIV counseling and testing (PICT) into the undergraduate medical curriculum: results from a pilot intervention in South Africa (presented by Dr. Nondumiso Makhunga-Ramfolo)
  

• WEPE193: Assuring infants and mothers get all PMTCT services (AIMGAPS): best practices emerging from a collaborative quality improvement effort to increase PMTCT service uptake in Tanzania (presented by Ms. Fazila Shakir)
  

• WEPE676: Helping others to live healthier lives: the widening roles and responsibilities of expert patients in Uganda (presented by Ms. Lauren Crigler)
  

• WEPE627: Developing standards of care for vulnerable children in nine countries (presented by Dr. Diana Chamrad)

Thursday, July 26 @ 12:30 p.m. (Exhibition Hall D on level two)

• THPE632: Palliative care, a human right and an achievable goal: introducing and spreading effective pain management for people with HIV in rural Uganda (presented by Dr. Suzanne Gaudreault)
  

ORAL POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION:

"No Breaks in the Chain: Ensuring Uninterrupted Drug Supplies" (THPDE01)

Thursday, July 26 @ 1:00 p.m. (Session Room 8 on street level)

• THPDE0103: Use of simple, low cost innovations to improve availability of HIV-related commodities at public hospitals in Uganda (presented by Mr. Luigi Jaramillo)