Sunday 30 October - Symposia

Symposia Programme

² Simultaneous English/French/English translation is provided for these sessions

Title of Symposia	Section (s)	Coordinators
Sunday, 30 October 2011, 09:15-11:15
37. Laboratory accreditation: essential for quality, but how to get there? ²	TB \| Bact.	Linda Oskam, Netherlands Thomas Shinnick, USA
38. Strategies to expand and improve active TB case-finding ²	HIV \| TB	Eric Pevzner, USA Jonathan Golub, USA
39. Taking TB control beyond the clinic: impact of Household and Community interventions in Southern Africa	HIV \| TB	Nulda Beyers, South Africa
40. Scaling up TB/HIV integration,TB prevention, and care for pregnant women and children in high-burden settings	HIV	Surbhi Modi, USA Mark Cotton, South Africa
41. National TB prevalence surveys: Global progress, results and lessons learned	TB	Ikushi Onozaki, Japan
42. Community Engagement: strengthening the evidence base to support patient and community perspectives in TB drug research	TB	Heather Ignatius, USA
43. Inhalation Approaches to Tuberculosis and other Lung Infections	TB \| LH	Edward Nardell, USA
44. Smoking cessation and smokefree environments for tuberculosis patients: Lessons learned from the field	LH \|TC	Tara Singh Bam, Nepal Trish Fraser, New Zealand
45. From Survey to action: COPD in low- and middle-income countries	LH	Chen-Yuan Chiang, The Union Peter Burney, UK
Sunday, 30 October 2011, 14:00-16:00
46. Clinical Trials of New Drugs and Regimens for MDR- and XDR-TB ²	TB	Joanna Breistein, USA Robert Horsburgh, USA
47. Patients as partners ²	TB \| NAPs	Mette Klouman, Norway Gini Williams, UK
48. Implementing ICF and IPT: From policy to practice	HIV \| TB	Mitesh Desai, USA Allyn Nakashima, USA
49. Partnership experiences on addressing the challenges of scaling up of new laboratory diagnostics	TB	Cristina Gutierrez, Switzerland Linda Parsons, USA
50. NTP/NAP- the impact of new diagnostic tools on access to TB/HIV services	HIV	Cathriona McCauley, The Union Javid Syed, USA
51. Scaling up public-private mix approaches for TB care and control	TB	Mukund Uplekar, Switzerland Hannah Monica Dias, Switzerland
52. Partnering beyond the formal health sector to promote access for hard-to-reach populations	TB	Gillian Mann, UK S. Bertel Squire, UK
53. Regional lessons on partnerships for scale-up of IPT and contact investigation in children	LH \| HIV	Anneke Hesseling, South Africa Simon Schaaf, South Africa
54. Preventing TI interference in lung health by moving beyond monitoring to implementing policy solutions	TC	Matthew Allen, New Zealand Anne Jones, Australia