Starting on:
Mar 14, 2024
Ending on:
Mar 14, 2024
Moderator(s):
Safari Park hotel
Max Credits:
5 Points
Provider:
Respiratory Society of Kenya
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Mar 14, 2024
Ending on:
Mar 14, 2024
Moderator(s):
Dr.
Jane Ong'ang'o
Principal Research Scientist Centre for Respiratory Diseases Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI).
Miss Nkirote Mwirigi
Public Private Collaboration, Human Rights and Gender Coordinator-National TB Program
Miss Asiko Ongaya
Medical laboratory scientist (BSc) and Mycobacteriologist (MSc)
Mr. Steve Anguva
TB/HIV Champion
Venue: Principal Research Scientist Centre for Respiratory Diseases Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI).
Miss Nkirote Mwirigi
Public Private Collaboration, Human Rights and Gender Coordinator-National TB Program
Miss Asiko Ongaya
Medical laboratory scientist (BSc) and Mycobacteriologist (MSc)
Mr. Steve Anguva
TB/HIV Champion
Safari Park hotel
Max Credits:
5 Points
Provider:
Respiratory Society of Kenya
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World TB Day Symposium
Starting on:
Mar 14, 2024
Mar 14, 2024
Ending on:
Mar 14, 2024
Mar 14, 2024
Venue:
Safari Park hotel
Safari Park hotel
Description
The LIGHT Consortium through its partners in Kenya, the African Institute of Development Policy (AFIDEP) and the Respiratory Society of Kenya (ReSoK), in collaboration with the Division of National Tuberculosis (TB), Leprosy and Lung Disease Program, Ministry of Health of Kenya, as well as the organising committee comprising the Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Health Solutions - Kenya (CHS), Stop TB Partnership Kenya, and Kenyatta National Hospital, welcomes you to the World TB Day Symposium 2024.
Objectives
Global burden of TB: drivers, responses and
outcomes
Tuberculosis in Kenya: progress, challenges and
more
The TB diagnostic landscape: past, present and the
future
Getting people into the TB bus: screening and
testing programs: what and how?
Ensuring treatment is successful: it is drugs, yes
and more
Gender and TB: where are the men?
Children and TB: progress, challenges and more
Adoption of Technology in TB programming:
moving beyond the “normal/usual”
MDR TB: what is new?
When TB microbiological cure is not enough: post
TB disability
TB prevention: what, why and how
Comprehensive and Integrated TB care
Community approaches for ending TB in Kenya:
For us, by us!
TB Patient Experience
Presenters
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Prof.
Jeremiah Muhwa
Consultant Chest Physician Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral & Research Hospital Chief Executive Officer
Respiratory Society of Kenya -
Mr.
Simon Wachira
Senior Technical Officer
DSTB, TB/HIV and Regional Support -
Dr.
Lorraine Mugambi
Chief of Party
TB ARC II -
Dr.
Katherine Horton
Infectious Disease Epidemiologist
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine -
Miss
Dorothy Adongo
TB champion
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Prof.
Lisa Obimbo
Chairperson, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health School of Medicine.
University of Nairobi. -
Miss
Brenda Mungai
Global Health Consultant and a Technical Review Panel Member at The Global Fund
The Global Fund -
Mr.
Karuga Irungu
Medical epidemiologist, TB Consultant, Public health specialist
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Dr.
Andrew Owuor
Pulmonologist
Kenyatta National Hospital -
Dr.
Immaculate Kathure
Head-Division of Tuberculosis and Lung Health
National TB and Leprosy Program