On 4th June, 2004, MSF UK hosted its first Scientific Day, which brought together scientists, academics and MSF medical practitioners active in the field of humanitarian medicine to discuss some of the latest developments.
Below you can find the agenda for the day and links to all the abstracts of the presentations, as well as related documents which have been published since last June.
AGENDA
09.00 Opening Remarks – Dr Rowan Gillies, MSF International President
09.15 – 10.45 Treating AIDS in resource-poor settings
Moderator: Professor David Mabey, Communicable Diseases, Clinical Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Overview of 25 MSF AIDS programmes 3 years on.
- Dr Laurent Ferradini, Epicentre
Integrating antiretroviral treatment into TB programmes in a rural district of Malawi.
- Dr Rony Zachariah, MSF
Providing antiretroviral therapy in a primary health care setting: experience from Khayelitsha, South Africa.
- Dr Eric Goemaere, MSF
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission in the Ukraine.
- Dr Joost Van der Meer
11.15 – 13.00 Health care in conflict
Moderator: Dr Egbert Sondorp, Public Health and Humanitarian Aid, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Pain management: results of operational studies among amputees in Sierra Leone and burn victims in Sri Lanka.
- Dr Phil Lacoux, MSF
Trauma of war among Chechen refugees in Ingushetia.
- Kaz de Jong, MSF
Mortality among internally displaced in northern Uganda.
- Ingrid van den Broek, MSF/Epicentre
Retrospective mortality surveys among internally displaced in West Darfour: preliminary results.
- Dr Evelyn Depoortere, Epicentre
14.00 – 15.00 Responding to neglected diseases
Moderator: Professor Sanjeev Krishna, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, St. George's Hospital Medical School.
Advances in the treatment of human African Trypanosomiasis.
- Dr Gerardo Priotto, Epicentre
Improving diagnosis of Kala-Azar in the field.
- Dr Francois Chappuis, MSF
Introducing DOTS in a country with high drug resistance: lessons from Uzbekistan.
- Dr Lucie Blok, MSF
15.30– 17.30 Treating malaria effectively
Moderator: Prof. Nick White, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University.
Studies of drugs and combinations for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Myanmar.
- Dr Frank Smithuis, MSF
Co-Artem: therapeutic efficacy in supervised vs unsupervised patients.
- Dr Jean-Paul Guthmann, Epicentre
Development of Lapdap and CDA, highlighting key stages and unanswered questions.
- Prof. Peter Winstanley, University of Liverpool
Moving malaria treatment policies: studies from Bangladesh and Sierra Leone
- Francesco Checchi, Epicentre
Resistance to antimalarials - and to change - in Africa.
Dr Christa Hook, MSF
17.30 Closing remarks – Dr Greg McAnulty, Chairman of MSF-UK
Abstracts and Presentations from previous years
Abstracts and published articles relating to previous Scientific Days can be found through the following links:
Scientific Day 2007
Scientific Day 2006
Scientific Day 2005
For information on this year's Scientific Day click here.