Scientific Day 2009

Session 1:  The Effects of Violence and Measuring Mortality

Chair:   Rhona MacDonald, The Lancet

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

• “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) 

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

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

Session 2:  Infectious Diseases

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

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

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

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

• “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)

• “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)

• “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

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

• “Wasting in infants < 6 months: prevalence and implications for emergency feeding programmes of the 2006 WHO Child Growth Standards” Carlos Grijalva-Eternod (UCL Centre for International Health and Development)

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