X National Congress of Tropical Medicine and International Health
The event aims to guide both tropical medicine and international health. The motto of the 10th edition of the congress was ‘The road to the elimination of NTDs in the 2020 horizon’.
Representatives from DNDi and GARDP took part in the event.
Parallel Sessions
Elimination of helminthiases: medical and epidemiological needs not covered
Date: Monday, October 23, 2017
Massive administration of medicines (MDA): mapping to decide how, what and when |
Onchocerciasis and filariasis: ‘end points’ |
Oral macro-filaricides: rationale and future |
Drug Access
Date: Monday, October 23, 2017
Moderators: Maria Romay, ISCIII, Madrid and Jorge Alvar, Head of Disease Area – Leishmaniasis, DNDi, Geneva
The landscape in drug access for NTDs |
Hepatitis C, alternative strategy |
Model for the access, prevention and control of Chagas imported in Spain |
Oral medicines in the Horizon 2020 strategy
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Moderator: Graeme Bilbe, R&D Director, DNDi, Geneva
A global overview |
Drug resistance in human African trypanosomiasis: past fears, bright future |
Chagas: therapeutic and diagnostic perspectives |
Visceral leishmaniasis, the African void |
Resistance to antimicrobials
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Neonatal sepsis |
Typhoid |
Sexual transmitted infections |
Plenary Sessions
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Global antibiotic research and development
Moderator: Graeme Bilbe, R&D Director, DNDi, Geneva
Speaker |
Neglected fungal infections
| Tuberculosis-like fungal diseases David Denning, Manchester University & GAFFI, England |
| Mycetoma, present and future Ed Zijlstra, DNDi, Geneva |
| La primera emergencia global por una infección fúngica – Candida auris Ana Alastruey, ISCIII, Madrid |
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