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Programme
| 9.45 | Welcome and Breakfast |
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| | 9.15-10.30 | HIV in the southern hemisphere | | 1st Session | Chairman: Dr Brigitte Bazin, Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le SIDA, Paris, France |
| - Evaluation at 24 months of HAART in HIV infected patients in an MSF Programme, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
(Laurent Ferradini) - Response to anti-retroviral therapy in HIV infected children followed in MSF programmes: a multicentric analysis.
(Delphine Sauvageot) - Peripheral neuropathies in patients on stavudine (d4T) containing anti-retroviral tri-therapy, MSF programme, Homa-Bay, Kenya.
(Clotilde Rimbaud)
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| | 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
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| | 11.00-12.00 | Vaccine preventable diseases | | 2nd Session | Chairman: Dr William Perea, OMS, Geneva, Switzerland |
| - Immunogenicity of fractional dose tetravalent A, C, Y, W135
meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine: Preliminary results of a
non-inferiority trial.
(Philippe Guerin) - An unusual yellow fever outbreak in South Kordofan, Sudan, 2005.
(Francesco Grandesso) - Measles vaccination in epidemic contexts.
(Rebecca Freeman Grais)
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| | 12.00-13.00 | Diagnostic tools | | 3rd Session | Chairman: Pr. Helen Lee, University of Cambridge, UK |
| - Improving diagnosis of pulmonary TB using bleach.
(Maryline Bonnet) - Assessment of three new pan-pLDH tests for diagnosis of uncomplicated malaria.
(Carole Fogg)
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| | 13.00-14.00 | Buffet lunch on site |
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| | 14.00-15.30 | Challenges for neglected diseases | | 4th Session | Chairman: Pr. Marcel Hommel, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| - Drug resistant tuberculosis: swimming upstream?
(Cathy Hewison) - Eflornithine for 1st line treatment of sleeping sickness: cohort analysis of 1055 patients in Sudan.
(Gerardo Priotto) - Preliminary
results of registration studies of the fixed dose combinations
artesunate + amodiaquine & artesunate + mefloquine.
(Bernard Pécoul)
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| | 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break |
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| | 16.00-17.00 | Silent crises | | 5th Session | Chairman: Dr Gregg Greenough, University of Harvard, Boston, USA |
| - Analysis of violence in Ituri, DRC.
(Françoise Duroc) - Epidemiological aspects of the 2005 Niger nutritional crisis.
(Nohelly Nombela)
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| | 17.30 | Farewell drinks at MSF France, 8 rue Saint Sabin 75011 Paris (Métro Bastille) |
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2008 Epicentre Scientific day
2008 Epicentre scientific day
