ECTMIH 2015: ACT Consortium joins major congress in Switzerland
3 September 2015
This year's European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health begins on Sunday, 6th September in the Swiss city of Basel. ACT Consortium investigators will present their latest research findings on malaria diagnosis and treatment.
Get involved in the discussion on malaria diagnosis and treatment
- Download the full schedule of our research at ECTMIH and meet our investigators
- Follow us on Twitter @ACTConsortium and #ECTMIH2015
- Share your ideas, questions and answers on our LinkedIn group
- Keep an eye on our website for updates from Basel
Highlights include:
MONDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER
Scientific sessions (1:30-2:30 PM)
Answering key questions on malaria drug delivery:
the importance of diagnostics
- Improving malaria treatment and control through enhanced diagnostic practice (David Schellenberg)
- Impact of malaria rapid diagnostic tests on patient care: results from the ACT Consortium (Katia Bruxvoort)
- Effects of introducing malaria rapid diagnostic tests in drug shops: findings from the evaluation of a cluster randomised trial in Uganda (Sian Clarke)
Posters and speed talks
- Diagnosing latent tuberculosis with interferon-gamma release assays in patients with concurrent malaria infection in Tanzania (Lasse Vestergaard)
- Mapping fever aetiologies in malaria-endemic areas: an interactive, open-access, on-line map (Heidi Hopkins)
- Explaining wide variation in malaria rapid diagnostic test uptake and adherence to test results: a multi-project analysis (Helen Burchett)
TUESDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER
Poster speed talks
- Modelling the cost-effectiveness of introducing malaria rapid diagnostic tests in the private for-profit sector (David Bath)
- Referral from community health workers: evidence from cluster randomized trials of mRDTs in two areas of high and low malaria transmission in Uganda (Sham Lal)
WEDNESDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER
Scientific session
- Systematic Sampling Approach Reveals Fewer Falsified First Line Antimalarials than Previously Reported (Harparkash Kaur)
Further information
- ECTMIH Day 1: Diagnostics in malaria treatment and control
- ECTMIH Day 2: Rapid diagnostic tests and research consortia
- ECTMIH Day 3: Substandard and falsified medicines
- Follow us on Twitter at #ECTMIH2015 and @ACTConsortium
- Share your ideas, questions and answers on our LinkedIn group
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