ACT Consortium researchers present at ASTMH 2014

23 October 2014

The 63rd annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene takes place between 2-6 November in New Orleans, USA. Find out which research results we will present and how you can meet us during the conference.

The ACT Consortium will present at a number of symposia, scientific and poster sessions. Highlights include:

Symposia

• Tue 4 Nov: Treating malaria: getting the dose right
• Wed 5 Nov: Non-malaria febrile illness: translating epidemiologic evidence into practice and policy
• Thu 6 Nov: Malaria data for decision-making: from the local to the global

Scientific Sessions

• Mon 3 Nov: Repeated treatment of young children 4-11 months with artemether-lumefantrine and dihydroartemisinine-piperaquine over a 2-year follow up period in real-life settings: Neuro-otoxicity drug safety assessments
• Wed 5 Nov: Facilitating harms data capture by non-clinicians utilising a novel data collection tool developed by the ACT Consortium - results of testing in the field
• Wed 5 Nov: Impact of malaria rapid diagnostic tests on care of febrile patients: cross-project results from the ACT Consortium

You can also download the full schedule of ACT Consortium symposia, scientific sessions and posters at ASTMH 2014:

 Please note that this schedule will be available as a paper leaflet at the meeting.

Meeting ACT Consortium members in New Orleans

In addition to our symposia, scientific sessions and posters, you can find some of our members as well as information about our research in the exhibition stand of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Malaria Centre (booth 211).

For any comments or questions, please email debora.miranda@lshtm.ac.uk or join the ACT Consortium LinkedIn group.

Photo: Dr Kristian Hansen presents ACT Consortium research at the MIM Pan African Malaria Conference 2013 in South Africa.

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Research Themes

• Non-malaria febrile illness
• Quality
• Safety
• Targeting
• Access
• Health seeking behaviour
• Monitoring & Evaluation