Round tables
New frontiers of Chagas disease
Date: Monday, 29 July 2019
Time: 9:15-11:15
Moderator: Ana Yece das Neves Pinto, Instituto Evandro Chagas
| Speakers: Faustino Torrico Andrea Marchiol, Chagas Access Project Manager, DNDi Latin America, Brazil Colin Forsyth, Chagas Epidemiologist, DNDi North America, USA Israel Molina, Hospital Universitário Vall d’Hebron, Spain |
Visceral leishmaniasis
Time: 9:15-11:15
Chairs: Ana Nilce Elkhoury, OPAS and Joelle Rode, Leishmaniasis Clinical Manager, DNDi Latin America
| Situação da LV nas Américas Ana Nilce Elkoury, Assessora Regional para Leishmanioses nas Américas, da Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde (OPAS/OMS) |
| Situação da Leishmaniose visceral no Brasil Marcia Souza, Department of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brazil |
| Leishmaniose cutanea atípica. Avanços no conhecimento da imunnopatogenia Marcia Dalastra, University of Sao Paulo |
| Visceral leishmaniasis in Africa. New therapeutic approaches Fabiana Alves, Head of Visceral Leishmaniasis Clinical Programme, DNDi |
Treatment for leishmaniasis – from theory to practice
Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Time: 17:30-18:30
Chairs: José Angelo Lauletta Lindoso, University of Sao Paulo & IIER and Joelle Rode, Leishmaniasis Clinical Manager, DNDi Latin America
| Local therapeutics: what do we have of evidence? Byron Arana, Head of Cutaneus Leishmaniasis, DNDi |
| Reposição de fármacos para leishmanioses. O que podemos fazer? André Gustavo Tempone, Adolfo Lutz Institute, Secretary of Health of São Paulo State, Brazil |
Workshops
Leishmaniasis-HIV co-infection and other immunosuppressive agents
Date: Saturday, 27 July 2019
Venue: Quality Hotel Pampulha
Co-chairs: Glaucia Fernandes Cota, The René Rachou Institute, Fiocruz Minas and Joelle Rode, Leishmaniasis Clinical Manager, DNDi Latin America
Convergence and inclusion: In search of sustainable solutions for the diagnosis, treatment and control of tropical diseases
Date: Sunday, 28 July 2019
Venue: Quality Hotel Pampulha
Co-chairs: Fabiana Barreiras, Clinical Manager Chagas disease, DNDi Latin America and Karla Gram
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