Online agenda – MSF Scientific Day in India 2015

MSF Scientific Day in India 2015 Agenda

                                                                                                      Friday 8 May 2015

India International Centre, 

Multipurpose Hall, Kamladevi Block,

40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi – 110003 

0915 – 1015         Registration, tea & coffee

1015 – 1030         Welcome & introduction: (Unni Karunakara, Yale University & MSF; Martin Sloot, MSF)

1030 – 1200         Session 1 – Neglected diseases, cohorts and populations

Chair: RohitSarin, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases

• A neglected stigmatising disease: cutaneous leishmaniasis in Balochistan, Pakistan

  Chenery Ann Lim, MSF

• Increased risk of treatment failure in an HIV-infected adolescent cohort in southern Myanmar

  Janet Ousley, MSF

• Novel interventions to enhance access to TB services for vulnerable and marginalised populations: experience from Axshya

  Sripriya Pandurangan, The Union

• Scrub typhus in India: emerging insights, and future challenges and opportunities

  George M. Varghese, Christian Medical College, Vellore

1200 – 1315         Session 2 – Adapting to contexts: people, tools & data

Chair: Jayshree Bhattacharjee, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital

• Measuring acute malnutrition, retrospective mortality and measles vaccination coverage through Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transition (SMART) survey in Darbhanga district, Bihar State, India

  Raman Mahajan, MSF

• Mobile data collection for routine monitoring of the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programme in Darbhanga, Bihar, India

  Raman Mahajan, MSF

• Adapting mental health screening tools to the Kashmir Valley: a contextual description and Use of mobile technologies in data collection for a mental health survey in Kashmir, India: a pilot study

  Nontas Papadimitriou, MSF & Shabnum Ara, MSF

1315 – 1445         Lunch, online stream

1445 – 1530         Session 3 – Further challenges in health sector response

Chair: Anjali Gopalan, the Naz Foundation Trust

• Monitoring stock-outs in national AIDS programme facilities in India: a case study by DNP+

  Paul Lhungdim, Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+)

• Making the health sector responsive to sexual violence: lessons learnt

  Padma Deosthali, Centre for Inquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT)

1530 – 1615         Keynote – The long term impact of antiretroviral therapy in resource limited settings

N.Kumarasamy, Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education
(YRGCARE)

1615 – 1645         Break

1645 – 1830         Session 4 – Visceral leishmaniasis: an overview of detection & response

Chair: Suman Rijal, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)

• Active and passive case detection strategies for control of visceral leishmaniasis in Bangladesh

  Manimoy Chakma, MSF

• Safety and effectiveness of new treatment regimens for visceral leishmaniasis in Bangladesh and India

  Vishal Goyal, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)

• Combination treatment for visceral leishmaniasis patients co-infected with HIV in India: building evidence for policy

  Temmy Sunyoto, MSF

• The role of secondary prophylaxis in the management of HIV-VL co-infection: 7 years’ experience from West Bengal

  Rama Prosad Goswami, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine

• Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis treated with liposomal amphotericin B

  Sakib Burza, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp & MSF

1830 – 1840         Closing remarks:  (Unni Karunakara, Yale University & MSF; Martin Sloot, MSF)

1840 –                   Drinks on the terrace

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