The ASTMH Annual Meeting draws tropical medicine and global health professionals representing academia, foundations, government, not for profit organizations, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, military and private practice. The meeting is designed for researchers, professors, government and public health officials, military personnel, travel clinic physicians, practicing physicians in tropical medicine, students and all healthcare providers working in the fields of tropical medicine, hygiene and global health. Check out our list of abstracts and proposals at #TropMed20 below!

November 16
9:00AM EST

• Onchocerciasis Elimination Mapping in four countries in Africa: Ensuring that no village is left behind

Presentations/Panelists:

Challenges in assessing the needs for mapping of onchocerciasis in Niger – Dr. Salissou Adamou

Progress of Onchocerciasis elimination mapping in security compromised districts – Mr. Moussa Sow

Onchocerciasis elimination mapping in Nigeria – a tale of two diagnostics. -Dr. Chukwuma Anyaike

Onchocerciasis elimination mapping where there is no onchocerciasis programme – Dr. Rassul Nala

 

1:30 PM – 3 PM EST

• LB-5040 - Developing a conceptual framework for trachoma mapping desk reviews in the context of nearing elimination targets: a participatory multi-country exercise

Authors: Mouctar Dieng Badiane1, Amadou A. Bio2, Emilienne Epee3, Rose Monteil4, Ines Dossa5, Julie Akame6, Benoit Dembele7, Kisito Ogoussan8, Stephanie L. Palmer8
11. Programme National de Sante Oculaire, Ministère de la Santé et Action Social, Dakar, Senegal, 22. Programme National de Lutte Contre les Maladies Tropicales Négligées, Contonou, Benin, 3Université de Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 4FHI 360, Dakar, Senegal, 5FHI 360, Contonou, Benin, 6Helen Keller International, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 7Helen Keller International, Dakar, Senegal, 8FHI 360, Washington, DC, United States

• LB-5042 - Overcoming the challenges of COVID-19: lessons learnedfrom recent MDAcampaignsin Guinea

Authors: Fatoumata Sakho1, André Géopogui1, Lamah Lamine2, Mamadou Siradiou Baldé1, Aissatou Diaby1, Christelly Badila Flore2, Steven D. Reid3, Brian Fuller3, Benoit Dembele4, Yaobi Zhang4, Angela Weaver3
1Ministry of Health, Conakry, Guinea, 2Helen Keller International, Conakry, Guinea, 3Helen Keller International, New York, NY, United States, 4Helen Keller International, Regional Office for Africa, Dakar, Senegal

• 419 - Distribution of hyper-endemic foci of urinary schistosomiasis in Mali

Authors: Mahamadou Traore1, Moussa Sangare2, Yaya Ibrahim Coulibaly3, Housseini Dolo2, Salif Seriba Doumbia2, Ilo Dicko2, Abdoul Fatao Diabate2, Lamine Soumaoro2, Michel Emmanuel Coulibaly2, Abdallah Amadou Diallo2, Boubacar Guindo4, Modibo Keita4, Seydou Doumbia2
1National Program for control and eliminate of Schistosomiasis and Soil-transmitted helminthes, Mali, Bamako, Mali, 2International Center of Excellence in Research (ICER-Mali), Filariasis Research and Training Unit, Bamako, Mali, Bamako, Mali, 3International Center of Excellence in Research (ICER-Mali), Filariasis Research and Training Unit, Bamako, Mali/ Dermatology Hospital of Bamako, Bamako, Mali, Bamako, Mali, 4Hellen Keller International, Bamako, Mali

• MMDP Situation Analysis for Lymphatic Filariasis and Trachoma

Poster Session A, LB-5033

Authors: Melissa L. Edmiston, Solomon Atinbire
American Leprosy Missions- AIM Initiative,

November 17
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM EST

• Overcoming the deworming cliff: Challenges in maintaining mass treatment for Soil Transmitted Helminths when Lymphatic Filariasis program stops.

Presentations/Panelists:

Status of STH in districts where LF MDA has stopped in Mali – Results of TAS/STH surveys – Dr. Mamadou Traore

Controlling Soil Transmitted Helminths in complex Lymphatic Filariasis and loasis endemic settings in Cameroon – Dr. George Nko Ayissi

LF elimination and STH control in Haiti – Success and Challenges – Dr. Abdel Direny

Togo’s plans for controlling Soil Transmitted Helminths post elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis – Prof Monique Dorkenoo

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM EST

• Closing the Neglected Tropical Diseases Cross Sector Coordination Gap: An Organizational Network Analysis to Sustain Elimination and Control Objectives in Ghana

Moderator, panelists:

Stephen Omunyidde

Arielle Dolegui

Stephen Omunyidde

November 18
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

• Promoting Operational & Financial Sustainability for Neglected Tropical Disease Programs in West Africa: Tools to estimate the costs and benefits and support sustainability planning: Act West | NTDs is a USAID-funded project supporting 11 countries in West Africa to achieve elimination and control goals of the five PCT diseases.

Moderator, panelists:

Organizer : Courtney Johnson

Co chair : Justin Tine -- FHI 360, Accra, Ghana

Mary Hodges-- HKI, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Dr. Benjamin Marfo-- Ghana NTDP, Accra, Ghana

Dr Fatou Ndiaye Badiane-- Senegal NTDP, Dakar, Senegal

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM EST

• Stopping mass drug administration for trachoma in 15 health districts in Guinea

Presentations/Panelists: Christelly Badila Flore, HKI - Guinea

• Use of Supervisor’s Coverage Tool to Improve Quality and Coverage for Lymphatic Filariasis Mass Drug Administration in Agadez Region, Niger

Presentations/Panelists: Salissou Adamou, NTDP - Niger

• Supervision of mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis using the Supervisors Coverage Tool (SCT) in Sierra Leone

Presentations/Panelists: Habib Kamara, NTDP- Sierra Leone

• Results of trachoma surveillance surveys in 21 health districts of the Far North and the North regions of Cameroon at least two years after stopping mass drug administration

Presentations/Panelists: Bella Assumpta, NTDP - Cameroon

• Sustained interruption of lymphatic filariasis transmission in 55 endemic health districts of Central, North, Far North and Adamaoua regions, Cameroon

Presentations/Panelists: Georges NKO'Ayiss,i NTDP - Cameroon

• Sustaining Interruption of Transmission for Lymphatic Filariasis in Eight Districts in Sierra Leone

Presentations/Panelists: Abdulai Conteh NTDP - Sierra Leone

 

3:45 PM - 5:30 PM EST

• Multisectoral collaboration for NTDs: Barrier analyses and opportunities for multisector coordination to sustain NTD programming

Moderator, panelists:

Stephen Omunyidde-- WV-US

Dr Oumar Sarr, Senegal- MSAS

Ms. Doris Bah, Sierra Leone- MoHS

Dr. Benjamin Marfo, Ghana- NTDP

Arielle Dolegui- Moderator

Gagik Karapetyan – Co-chair

Stephen Omunyidde – Chair

• Developing a conceptual framework for trachoma mapping desk reviews in the context of nearing elimination targets: a participatory multi-country exercise.

Presentations/Panelists:

Presentation - late breaker - 

• Improving mass drug administration coverage for lymphatic filariasis in 2019 based on sub-district level data analysis

Presentations/Panelists:

Mustapha Sonnie, HKI - Sierra Leone

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