Scientific Day 2009

Session 1: The Effects of Violence and Measuring Mortality

Chair: Rhona MacDonald, The Lancet

• Herard_final_200906233625.doc"Orthopaedic trauma surgery in high-need, resource-limited, urban settings: Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Port Harcourt, Nigeria” Dr. Patrick Hérard (MSF)
  

• K_Stott_final_200906233817.doc“Out of sight, out of mind? The psychosocial needs of children formerly associated with armed forces: a case study of Save the Children UK's work in Beni and Lubero territories, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo” Katharine Stott (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine)

• Van_Baelen_final_200906234100.doc“Reported rape cases during and after a war-transition period” Luk Van Baelen (MSF)

• Bayard_final2_200906234300.doc“A new method to estimate mortality in crisis-affected populations: validation and feasibility study”Bayard_final2_200906234300.doc Bayard Roberts (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  

Session 2: Infectious Diseases

Chair: Nick Banatvala, Head of Global Affairs, UK Department of Health

• Roddy_final_200906234555.doc“Clinical manifestations and supportive treatment outcomes: analysis of Ebola haemorrhagic fever data from Bundibugyo, Uganda”Roddy_final_200906234555.doc Paul Roddy (MSF)

• Isaakidis_Paediatric_outcomes_MSFB_Cambodia_final_200906234813.doc“High survival and treatment success sustained after 2 and 3 years of ART for children in Cambodia” Petros Isaakidis (MSF)

• Chiara_final2_200906234936.doc“Diagnosis and treatment of MDR/XDR-tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients is feasible in a slum setting in Mumbai, India” Chiara Montaldo (MSF)

• Doris_final_200906235100.doc“TB is a disease that is flying through the air: traditional concepts and perceptions of tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis and the potential for home-based care” Doris Burtscher (MSF)

Session 3: Tropical Neglected Diseases

Chair: Simon Croft, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

• “100 wasted years since the discovery of Chagas?” Tom Ellman (MSF)

• Ritmeijer_AmBisome_in_HIVVL_in_Ethiopia_final_200906235424.doc“Poor effectiveness of Ambisome® in HIV co-infected visceral leishmaniasis patients in Ethiopia” Koert Ritmeijer (MSF)

• “Multicentre non-inferiority trial of nifurtimox-eflornithine combination therapy for second-stage Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness” Gerardo Priotto (Epicentre)

• Chappuis_final_200906235728.doc“The challenge of controlling human African trypanosomiasis in a remote and unstable area of Democratic Republic of Congo” Anne Pittet (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne)

Session 4: Nutrition and Diabetes

Chair: Peter Tinneman, Charité- University Medical Centre Berlin

• Raguenaud_Cambodia_Diabetes_Abstract_final_200906235904.doc“Treating diabetes in Cambodia, a high prevalence setting: programme outcomes over 5 years” Petros Isaakidis (MSF)

• “Wasting in infants Carlos Grijalva-Eternod (UCL Centre for International Health and Development)

• Saskia_final2_200906253523.doc“The effectiveness of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) for catch-up growth after an episode of P. falciparum malaria”Saskia_final2_200906253523.doc Saskia van der Kam (MSF)