Final Programme - World Heart Federation

Monday, 19 May 2008
PaRaná - oChRe Pavillion - 16:00-17:30
Symposium
CaRdiovasCulaR Risk and human immunodefiCienCy viRus (hiv) infeCtion in afRiCa
Chairs: Jean-Rene M’buyamba (CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE), Karen Sliwa (SOUTH AFRICA)
16:00 Cardiovascular risk in HIV-infected patients: Global overview and implication for action
Sergio Lupo (ARGENTINA)
16:22 Cardiovascular risk in African HIV patients: Situation analysis and implication for action
Onen Churchill (BOTSWANA)
16:44 Cost-effective approaches for management and prevention of HIV infection induced cardiomyopathie in Africa
Amoah Albert (GHANA)
17:06 Mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases in HIV-infected patients: Is there an ethnic difference?
Daniel Lemogoum (CAMEROON)
yangtze - oChRe Pavillion - 16:00-17:30
Symposium
health PRomotion foR ChildRen
Chair: Diego Esandi (ARGENTINA), Volqvartz Susanne (DENMARK)
16:00 Relation between CVD risk factors in children and their parents: Smoking and Rayuela Project
Maria Ines Sosa Liprandi (ARGENTINA)
16:22 The role of the paediatrician in school-based health education programmes
Soon Joo Wang Ernesto Juaneda (ARGENTINA)
16:44 Protecting children from marketing
Anita Saxena (INDIA)
17:06 The Colombia experience
Beatriz Londoño (COLOMBIA)
Rio de la Plata - Red Pavillion - 16:00-17:30
Symposium
the PolyPill
Chairs: Angeles Alonso Garcia (SPAIN), Alfonso Perez (UNITED STATES )
16:00 Why a polypill?
Nicholas Wald (UNITED KINGDOM)
16:22 Clinical considerations
Fuster Valentin (UNITED STATES )
16:44 Regulatory issues
Martin Seoane (ARGENTINA)
17:06 Cost benefit considerations
Gianni Tognoni (ITALY)
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