Integrating Testing & Treating of NTDs – Benefits of Integrating T & T of Hep-C and Chagas

Pre-meeting session with COR-NTD and Chagas Coalition.

07 octubre 2020

As you might be aware, the annual meeting of the Coalition for Operational Research on Neglected Tropical Diseases (COR-NTD) is taking place virtually this year. Ahead of the COR-NTD meeting, individual sessions will take place to inform synthesized sessions of a broader topic in which the Coalition will participate.

This pre-meeting session will take place on October 7th, at 10:00-11:30 EDT.

Scheduled talks and participants include:

  1. The potential impact of Integrating screening of Chagas disease in national protocols: The case of EMTCT-Plus – Pierre Buekens

  2. What have we learned from implementation of models of test & treat?  – Sergio Sosa-Estani

  3. Implementation of the framework for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and Chagas (EMTCT Plus) in a disperse rural population from the Gran Chaco region. Preliminary results.– Favio Gabriel Crudo

  4. Learning from Chagas disease: Hepatitis C Access – Graciela Diap

Moderators: Ezequiel Mauro (Coordinator, Hepatitis Program, Ministry of Health Argentina) and Javier Sancho (Chagas Coalition)
Rapporteur: Maria Victoria Periago (Mundo Sano)

Registration here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvceGoqTIoHtQBXm2BpjYOmSPXXRtIectY