SCI at the 64th American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting

SCI will be giving a number of presentations during the American Society in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

SCI is participating in the American Society of Tropical Medicine (ASTMH) 64th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, 26-30 October 2015.

The ASTMH annual meeting is a five-day educational conference providing a forum for discussing new and ongoing issues in topical medicine and global health, such as Ebola, malaria, schistosmiasis, intestinal helminths and other neglected tropical diseases.

During the conference, experts from SCI will participate in 7 presentations and poster sessions on a range of topics.

Featured SCI presentations:

Monday 26 October

Symposium 9:  Eliminating soil-transmitted helminthiasis as a public-health problem in children: Strategies to achieve the World Health Organization 2020 Goal (8.00-9.45am) 

Dr Fiona Fleming will be presenting 'Case studies - The Critical Role of WASH in STH Control'

Poster Session A (12.00-1.45pm)

Arminder Deol will be presenting 'Comparison of full age-intensity profiles for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth infection from a two-year study in Uganda'

Jane Whitton will be presenting 'Measuring the performance and impact of three annual national treatments for schistosmiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in Malawi'

Tuesday 27 October

Poster Session B (12.00-1.45pm)

Jane Whitton will be presenting 'The neglected children: non-attending school-aged children, how to include them in school based schistosomiasis programs'

Dr Fiona Fleming will be presenting 'Qualitative evaluation of the Ugandan integrated Neglected Tropical Diseases COntrol Programme: Examining issues of community acceptability and accessibility'

Scientific Session 102: Integrated Control Measures for Neglected Tropical Diseases (4.00-6.00pm)

Yolisa Nalule will be presenting 'Going paperless? A multi-country experience on the use of SMART phones in the control of Neglected Tropical Diseases'

Dr Fiona Fleming will be presenting 'Community Drug Distributor performance in the control of Neglected Tropical Diseases: are we asking too much?'

Wednesday 28 October 

Poster Session C (12.00-1.45pm)

Dr Michelle Clements will be presenting 'A novel methodology to assess diagnostic performance when ambiguous results are present, with application to Schistosoma mansoni detection in Cote d'Ivoire and Uganda'

Scientific session 147: Schistosmiasis: Epidemiology and Control (1.45-2.30pm)

Arminder Deol will be presenting 'The use of a Markov transition probability model as a programmatic tool for the control of schistosomiasis'

Dr Sarah Nogaro will be presenting 'Improving treatment coverage - mass drug administration as seen from the health worker's perspective'

Scientific Session 156: Schistosmiasis: Immunology, Pathology and Diagnostics (4.00-5.45pm)

Dr Bodo Randrianasolo and Dr Peter Jourdan will be presenting 'Targeting the burden of schistosomiasis in Madagascar: gyaecological manifestations of schistosomiasis in an area scalong up mass drug administration of praziquantel'