Sessions on all days

Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Symposia

Time

Title

Room

10:00 – 18:00

WHO Global TB Symposium (clh, mdr-tb, tb, res)

Auditorium I

Post-graduate courses

Time

Title

Room

09:00 – 16:00

01. Project management

Auditorium II

09:00 – 16:00

02. Best practices in the management of the second-line injectable drugs in children with multidrug-resistant TB (clh, mdr-tb)

MR 1.41

09:00 – 16:00

03. Qualitative methods in global tuberculosis research (tb, res)

MR 1.42

09:00 – 16:00

04. An introduction to tuberculosis modelling (TB Modelling and Analysis Consortium) (tb)

MR 1.43

09:00 – 16:00

05. Skill building for health educators (naps)

Workshops

Time

Title

Room

09:00 – 16:00

01. Operational research skills in one day (res)

Auditorium II

09:00 – 16:00

02. Building new treatment paradigms for TB programmes using PK/PD science (tb)

Ballroom West-CTICC

09:00 – 16:00

03. Developing counselling skill for TB caregivers in one day (tb, naps)

MR 2.41-2.43

09:00 – 12:00

04. Adding connectivity to your TB diagnostics (tb)

Roof Terrace

13:00 – 16:00

05. Challenges in setting up phase 2/3 MDR-TB clinical trials (mdr-tb, tb, res)

Roof Terrace

Social events

Time

Title

Room

The 4th President's Centennial Dinner

Side-meetings

Time

Title

Room

09:00 – 17:00

J2J Journalist Lung Health Training Programme - Closed Meeting

MR 1.63/1.64

11:15 – 12:30

Tackling co-morbidities for optimal gain: tuberculosis, diabetes and NCDs (tb, ncds)

Ballroom East: CTICC

14:15 – 15:30

Multisectoral action for global tobacco control: a collaborative response for lung health and NCDs (lh, ncds, tc)

Ballroom East : CTICC

Union meetings

Time

Title

Room

08:00 – 11:00

Membership Committee meeting

MR 1.44

11:00 – 14:00

Board meeting

MR 2.64–2.66

15:00 – 17:00

Coordinating Committee of Scientific Activities

MR 2.64–2.66

16:00 – 18:00

Editorial Board of Public Health Action

MR 1.44

Imbizo

Time

Title

Room

09:00 – 10:00

TB 101: Explaining concepts and simplifying scientific terminology (Eng/Zul) (cs)

IMBIZO Hall 4B

09:00 – 17:00

Mural painting

IMBIZO Hall 4B

11:30 – 12:30

Launch of IMBIZO with Dr E Jane Carter, President of The Union

IMBIZO Hall 4B

12:30 – 13:00

KICK TB & HIV – literally!

IMBIZO Hall 4B

13:00 – 13:30

Video: focus on healthcare workers

IMBIZO Hall 4B

13:30 – 14:00

TB & me: documentary video and photo exhibit

IMBIZO Hall 4B

15:00 – 15:30

Briefing: Silicosis and TB in the Mines

IMBIZO Hall 4B

15:30 – 16:00

Discussion: TB and drug development

IMBIZO Hall 4B

Thursday, 3 December 2015

Plenary sessions

Time

Title

Room

17:30 – 19:00

Inaugural Session

Auditorium I

Post-graduate courses

Time

Title

Room

09:00 – 16:00

06. Implementing new and re-purposed drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant TB: lessons from the field (mdr-tb, tb)

Ballroom West-CTICC

09:00 – 16:00

07. Update on clinical and programmatic management of MDR- and XDR-TB (mdr-tb, tb)

MR 2.64-2.66

09:00 – 12:00

08. Integrating palliative care into the continuum of MDR-TB Care (mdr-tb, naps, tb)

MR 1.42

13:00 – 16:00

09. Establishing community MDR-TB programmes (tb, cs)

MR 1.42

09:00 – 16:00

10. Making sense and use of routine TB data for management (tb)

MR 1.43

09:00 – 16:00

11. Risk factor management and tuberculosis control (tb)

09:00 – 16:00

12. Key components of effective and sustainable tuberculosis infection control programme (tb)

Marco Polo-Westin

09:00 – 16:00

13. Strengthening TB case finding and prevention in high-risk populations (tb)

Sir Francis Drake-Westin

Workshops

Time

Title

Room

09:00 – 16:00

06. Ensuring MDR-TB patient information and adherence counselling is a key part of patient-centred care (tb, naps, mdr-tb)

Auditorium II

09:00 – 16:00

07. The Global Fund’s new funding model: country experiences of moving toward grant implementation (hiv, tb)

Ballroom East-CTICC

09:00 – 16:00

08. WHO consolidated guidelines for treatment of tuberculosis (tb)

MR 2.41-2.43

09:00 – 16:00

09. Post-2015 GTB technical support coordination for Global Fund grants and concept notes for End TB Strategy (tb)

09:00 – 12:00

10. Application of programme guidelines for community-driven projects to eliminate TB among migrants (tb, cs)

MR 2.44-2.46

13:00 – 16:00

11. Towards a community and patient-centred movement (cs, naps)

MR 1.44

09:00 – 12:00

12. Monitoring & evaluation in active case finding: the TB REACH approach (tb)

Ballroom East-Westin

13:00 – 16:00

13. Challenges of DR-TB treatment in India and opportunities beyond 2015: patient voices from India (cs, tb, mdr-tb)

Ballroom East-Westin

09:00 – 16:00

14. Access to TB medicines beyond 2015: the dynamics of demand and supply (tb)

Ballroom West-Westin

09:00 – 16:00

15. Molecular diagnostics: bringing together the basic science and clinical worlds (tb, res)

MR 2.61-2.63

09:00 – 16:00

16. Pharmacovigilance for bedaquiline, delamanid and other TB drugs and regimens (tb)

Sir Francis Drake-Westin

09:00 – 16:00

17. Budgeting for TB care and control in an integrated fashion: one-day OneHealth tool introduction (tb)

Social events

Time

Title

Room

Welcome reception

Ceremony

Time

Title

Room

Inaugural Ceremony

Side-meetings

Time

Title

Room

09:00 – 12:30

Annual Meeting of the Stop TB Partnership New Diagnostics Working Group (NDWG)

Roof Terrace

09:00 – 17:00

J2J Journalist Lung Health Training Programme - Closed Meeting

MR 1.63/1.64

13:30 – 17:00

8th FIND Symposium

Roof Terrace

Union meetings

Time

Title

Room

12:00 – 14:00

Editorial Board of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

MR 1.41

16:15 – 17:15

Union Working Group meeting: Best practice for patient-centred care (naps)

Ballroom East – CTICC

16:15 – 17:15

Union Working Group meeting: Creating global awareness of zoonotic TB (zoo)

MR 2.64–2.66

16:15 – 17:15

Union Working Group meeting: Getting research into tobacco control policy at regional and country level (tc)

Ballroom West – CTICC

16:15 – 17:15

Union Working Group meeting: Maternal–child TB (clh)

MR 2.61–2.63

16:15 – 17:15

Union Working Group meeting: Regional mobilisation of Nurses & Allied Health Professionals (naps)

MR 1.41

16:15 – 17:15

Union Working Group meeting: TB and mental health (tb)

MR 2.44–2.46

16:15 – 17:15

Union Working Group meeting: TB and migration (tb, cs)

Ballroom East – Westin

16:15 – 17:15

Union Working Group meeting: TB control in prisons (tb)

Auditorium II

16:15 – 17:15

Union Working Group meeting: TB education and training (tb)

MR 1.42

16:15 – 17:15

Union Working Group meeting: TB, HIV and tobacco (hiv, tc, tb)

MR 1.44

16:15 – 17:15

Union Working Group meeting: TB infection control (tb)

MR 2.41–2.43

Imbizo

Time

Title

Room

09:00 – 17:00

Mural painting

IMBIZO Hall 4B

09:30 – 10:00

Social media campaign: #lunghealthimbizo

IMBIZO Hall 4B

11:00 – 12:30

Workshop A. Integrating community-based tuberculosis activities into the work of NGOs and other CSOs

IMBIZO Hall 4B

12:30 – 13:30

Discussion: TB in prison

IMBIZO Hall 4B

14:00 – 16:00

March with the People: Note change in time and starting point (cs)

14:30 – 15:30

Symposium A. Debate: More of the TB control budget should be diverted from biomedical care to socioeconomic interventions

IMBIZO Hall 4B

15:30 – 16:00

Video from TB Proof and Living Hope

IMBIZO Hall 4B

16:00 – 16:30

TB and disability

IMBIZO Hall 4B

16:00 – 17:00

Symposium B. Fighting TB in the post-2015 era: reaching global health targets through community participation (cs)

IMBIZO Hall 4B

16:30 – 17:00

Launch of the National Strategic Plan Review bumper edition

IMBIZO Hall 4B

17:00 – 18:00

Workshop: How to engage with your parliamentarians in the Global TB Caucus: globally, regionally and nationally

IMBIZO Hall 4B

18:00 – 18:30

Kick TB!

IMBIZO Hall 4B

18:30 – 19:00

Research for the rest of us (Eng/Zul/Xho) I: The End TB Strategy (tb)

Hall 4B

Friday, 4 December 2015

Plenary sessions

Time

Title

Room

09:00 – 10:00

The State of TB and HIV on the 27th anniversary of World AIDS Day: Panel Discussion (hiv, mdr-tb, tb)

Auditorium I

Symposia

Time

Title

Room

10:30 – 12:00

01. Bending South Africa's TB curve: game-changing interventions to attain a future of "zeros" | en français (tb)

Auditorium I

10:30 – 12:00

02. Best practice in management of side effects among DR-TB patients to improve quality of care | en français (tb, mdr-tb)

Ballroom East - CTICC

10:30 – 12:00

03. Pre-approval of access to new TB drugs: what, where and how (tb)

Roof Terrace

10:30 – 12:00

04. Outstanding issues in HIV/AIDS (hiv)

Ballroom West - CTICC

10:30 – 12:00

05. ZTB session: Zoonotic tuberculosis: trends, diagnostics and infections model (zoo)

MR 2.41-2.43

10:30 – 12:00

06. One pilot after another: how can we move toward a sustainable scale-up of child lung health interventions? (clh)

MR 2.44-2.46

10:30 – 12:00

07. Role of surgery in management of TB: a promise or redundancy? (tb)

Da Gama/Diaz-Westin

13:30 – 15:00

08. Maternal and infant TB: advancing our understanding of pathogenesis, treatment and prevention (clh, tb)

Roof Terrace

13:30 – 15:00

09. The cost of TB and lung health interventions: methodologies and implications for health systems and patients (lh, tb)

MR 2.41-2.43

13:30 – 15:00

10. Research is needed to increase children's access to drug-resistant TB care (tb, clh, mdr-tb, res)

MR 2.44-2.46

13:30 – 15:00

11. TB surveillance in healthcare workers: challenges and approaches in high-burden, low-resource settings (naps, tb)

MR 2.61-2.63

13:30 – 15:00

12. Managing pharmacovigilance systems: optimising the rational use of new TB medicines and novel regimens (tb)

MR 2.64-2.66

13:30 – 15:00

13. Can mobile technology improve lung health in poorer countries and communities: benefits and opportunities (lh)

Ballroom East-Westin

13:30 – 15:00

14. Spelunking for treasure: searching for candidate biomarkers as prognostic indicators for treatment outcome (tb)

Ballroom West-Westin

15:30 – 17:00

15. TB-HIV epidemiology within the context of national TB prevalence surveys in Africa | en français (hiv, tb)

Auditorium I

15:30 – 17:00

16. Scaling up MDR-TB services in resource-limited settings: progress and challenges from the field | en français (mdr-tb, tb)

Ballroom East-CTICC

15:30 – 17:00

17. Maximizing opportunities for integrating TB services into maternal and child health programmes (clh, tb)

Roof Terrace

15:30 – 17:00

18. Five years of Xpert MTB/RIF implementation: lessons learnt for increasing the impact of future new diagnostics (tb)

Auditorium II

15:30 – 17:00

19. Quality laboratory services and the impact on patient care (tb)

Ballroom West-CTICC

15:30 – 17:00

20. The unaddressed health challenge of TB in prisons: applying End TB Strategy concepts of patient-centred care (naps, tb)

MR 2.41-2.43

15:30 – 17:00

21. TB contact management in children: closing policy-implementation gaps (tb, clh)

MR 2.44-2.46

15:30 – 17:00

22. A community-based approach to reaching the missing "three million" (cs, tb)

MR 2.61-2.63

15:30 – 17:00

23. Moving towards universal access to drug susceptibility testing: progress and challenges (tb)

MR 2.64-2.66

15:30 – 17:00

24. Why and how to use tobacco taxes as funding mechanisms for financing health in low- and middle-income countries (tc)

Ballroom East-Westin

15:30 – 17:00

25. Can tuberculosis immunisation prevent initial infection (not just disease complications)? (tb)

Ballroom West-Westin

15:30 – 17:00

26. WHO/ERS initiative on e/mHealth in tuberculosis and tobacco control (tb, tc)

Da Gama/Diaz-Westin

E-poster sessions

Time

Title

Room

12:30 – 13:30

01. Zoonotic tuberculosis: trends, detections and interpretation (zoo)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

02. TB in children: perspectives from around the world (clh)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

03. Drug-resistant TB: outcomes - I (mdr-tb, tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

04. LTBI: a potpourri (tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

05. Rats, videos and secretions: the landscape of TB detection (tb)

Poster Area

Poster discussion sessions

Time

Title

Room

12:30 – 13:30

01. Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis: detection and treatment (tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

02. Drug development: something old, something new (tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

03. Treatment outcomes and ethics: bedaquiline (mdr-tb, tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

04. New approaches to health systems, care and management for drug-resistant TB (mdr-tb, tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

05. Collaborative services for TB and diabetes (tb, ncds)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

06. TB surveillance from Swaziland to Japan (tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

07. Tuberculosis: from the bench to the grave (tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

08. Trends, transmission and tuberculosis case finding (tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

09. Public-private strategies to End TB: the case of India (tb, cs)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

10. What's app doc? Use of m-health (tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

11. Basic science: bugs and drugs (tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

12. TB diagnostic challenges: molecular and other techniques (tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

13. Diverse diagnostics (tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

14. Gene mutation: the engine behind drug resistance and TB strain diversity (mdr-tb, tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

15. Gene Xpert: the nuts and bolts of TB diagnosis (tb, mdr-tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

16. Retaining our patients in care (naps, tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

17. Including those affected in care (cs, naps, tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

18. Don't forget us: migrants and indigenous populations (cs, tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

19. TB in children: epidemiology - I (clh, tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

20. TB in children: diagnosis (clh, tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

21. COPD, lung function and pulmonary embolism (lh, ncds)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

22. Smoking cessation (lh, tc)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

23. Social media campaigns (cs, tc)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

24. Engagement of CSOs, communities and patients in TB control and management (cs, tb)

Poster Area

12:30 – 13:30

25. HIV and lung health: something for everyone (hiv, lh)

Poster Area

Oral abstract sessions

Time

Title

Room

10:30 – 12:00

01. Symptoms, sputum, sequence: TB diagnosis and resistance (tb, mdr-tb)

Auditorium II

10:30 – 12:00

02. Around the world vulnerability takes many forms (cs, tb)

MR 2.61 - 2.63

10:30 – 12:00

03. Placing the patient at the centre of care (tb, cs, naps)

MR 2.64 - 2.66

10:30 – 12:00

04. Law enforcement and awareness (tb, cs)

Ballroom East-Westin

10:30 – 12:00

05. Financing TB services (cs, tb)

Ballroom West-Westin

13:30 – 15:00

06. MDR-TB: trials, cohorts and predictors | en français (mdr-tb, tb)

Auditorium I

13:30 – 15:00

07. Many paths to the same END TB strategy | en français (tb)

Ballroom East-CTICC

13:30 – 15:00

08. The molecular basis of PZA resistance: from bench to bedside (mdr-tb, tb)

Auditorium II

13:30 – 15:00

09. HIV and lung health (hiv, lh, tb)

Ballroom West-CTICC

13:30 – 15:00

10. Using media for communications on TB (cs, tb)

Da Gama/Diaz-Westin

Sessions on all days

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