UK CAB 4: Friday 31 January 2003

Introduction to meeting and speakers
Reading Material
Agenda for the meeting
Report frome the meeting

1. Introduction to meeting and speakers

Dr Ranjababu Kulasegaram Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital

HIV and hepatitis C co-infection

Dr Ranjababu Kulasegaram (Babu) Dr Ranjababu Kulasegaram started specialising in GU/HIV medicine after his general medical training and has been working at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital since 1995. His special interest is in managing patients with treatment difficulties, coinfection with hepatitis C and B and in patient care.

Paul Bateman

Living with multiple conditions

Living outside London, having three medical conditions, visiting three departments in two hospitals and deciding whether to take hep C treatment!

Robert James

Personal experience of 48 weeks of interferon and ribavirin

A year in the life of Rob, weekly interferon injections, coping with side-effects, complications with HIV medication, abstaining from alcohol. Was it worth it?

2. Reading Material

In preparation for the next CAB you will need to have internet access for about 30 minutes and preferably access to a printer, and about 30 minutes to look over the material.

If you have any problems you can email Paul Foster or myself or you can call the office between 10-12am any morning next week and we'll try to give give very limited IT support.

• Women and HIV.
  a series of weblinks to articles about women and HIV.
• From NATAP:
  Co-infection with hepatitis among people with HIV
• The Body: ACRIA
  Treatment Issues for Women
• from NATAP (June 2002
  Hepatitis C and HCV/HIV Coinfection)
• Dr Ranjababu Kulasegaram
  Presentation slides as aPDF file [748kb]

3. Agenda for the meeting

9.15 - 10.30	Women and HIV	why gender is a real issue - feedback from two recent meetings in the US by Polly Clayden.
10.30 - 11.00	Internal UK-CAB and feedback and Roche pre-meeting
11.00 - 11.30	Break
11.30 - 12.20	HIV and hepatitis c co-infection	Dr Ranjababu Kulasegaram (Babu) Dr Ranjababu Kulasegaram started specialising in GU/HIV medicine after his general medical training and has been working at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital since 1995. His special interest is in managing patients with treatment difficulties, coinfection with hepatitis C and B and in patient care.
12.20 - 12.35	Living with multiple conditions	Paul, Living outside London, having three medical conditions, visiting three departments in two hospitals and deciding whether to take hep C treatment!
12.35 - 12.50	48 weeks of interferon and ribavirin	Robert James A year in the life of Rob, weekly interferon injections, coping with side-effects, complications with HIV medication, abstaining from alcohol. Was it worth it?
12.50 - 1.00	Questions for all three speakers
1.00 - 2.00	Lunch
2.00 - 3.30	Roche HCV department	Dr Colin Hayward
	Proposed agenda
	i) introductions ii) introduction to Roche approach to HCV products iii) trials results, by genotype, time on treatment etc iv) management of side effects v) pricing and access issues vi) future developments (treatment and monitoring)