Sessions by Day

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

Side-meetings

Time

Title

Room

10:00 – 13:00

Regional progress and opportunities in tobacco taxation (tc)

MR 1.41/1.42

10:00 – 12:30

TB clinical trial data sharing platform - Closed Meeting (res, tb)

MR 1.63/1.64

12:00 – 14:00

Fighting TB and diabetes in South Africa

MR 1.43/1.44

15:00 – 17:30

Role of information communication technology to reach and ensure TB treatment adherence for the Missing Million (tb)

MR 1.43/1.44

Union meetings

Time

Title

Room

08:00 – 08:50

Union Scientific Sub-Section meeting: TB Nurses & Allied Professionals (naps)

Ballroom West –CTICC

08:00 – 08:50

Union Scientific Sub-Section meeting: TB/Bacteriology & Immunology (tb)

Ballroom East – CTICC

08:00 – 08:50

Union Scientific Sub-Section meeting: Zoonotic TB (zoo)

Auditorium II

08:00 – 08:50

Union Working Group meeting: Asthma management in low- and middle-income countries (clh, lh)

Sir F Drake – Westin

08:00 – 08:50

Union Working Group meeting: Childhood TB (clh)

MR 2.41–2.43

08:00 – 08:50

Union Working Group meeting: Countering tobacco industry interference in public health policies (tc)

MR 2.64–2.66

08:00 – 08:50

Union Working Group meeting: Global indigenous Stop TB initiative (cs, tb)

Marco Polo –Westin

12:15 – 13:15

Union Region meeting: Africa

MR 2.41–2.43

12:15 – 13:15

Union Region meeting: Europe

MR 2.64–2.66

12:15 – 13:15

Union Region meeting: Latin America

MR 2.44–2.46

12:15 – 13:15

Union Region meeting: South-East Asia

MR 2.61–2.63

17:15 – 18:45

Union Scientific Section meeting: Adult & Child Lung Health (clh, lh)

Marco Polo – Westin

17:15 – 18:45

Union Scientific Section meeting: Tuberculosis (mdr-tb, tb)

Da Gama/Diaz – Westin

18:00 – 19:00

Student Networking Forum

The Union Village

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