The theme of the ninth EDCTP Forum, held in partnership with the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, is “Clinical research and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa: the impact of North-South partnerships”.
Symposia
Synergies between diagnostics and treatment studies in human African trypanosomiasis: Examples of collaboration from the DiTECT-HAT and HAT-r-ACC project
Date: Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Time: 10:30
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Olaf Valverde, Medical Manager, HAT, DNDi, Geneva
Co-chair: Veerle Lejon, Research Director, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France
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Partnership in research for HAT |
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The value of the HAT Atlas in planning for disease elimination and research |
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The influence of treatment on diagnosis and staging of HAT, from melarsoprol to acoziborole |
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Clinical signs and symptoms of HAT revisited: their use for improvement of predictive value of laboratory diagnosis |
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Challenges of clinical research for HAT on the path to elimination |
| Future perspectives on HAT diagnosis and post-treatment follow-up Dieudonné Mumba, Head of Parasitology Department, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB), DRC |
Tools and resources to make data-sharing useful: case studies from poverty-related and emerging infections
Date: Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Time: 10:30
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Oumar Gaye, Infectious Diseases Data Observatory, West Africa Regional Centre
Co-chair: Francine Ntoumi, Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale
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The Malaria Clinical Trials Toolkit: a step-by-step guide for researchers |
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Developing a data-sharing platform for visceral leishmaniasis research |
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Establishing equitable governance and partnership for the Ebola Data Platform |
| Generating reliable evidence from pooled data: examples from malaria research Paul Sondo, Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro, Burkina Faso |
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