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The 1st International Post-Tuberculosis Symposium.
Life after TB.

STIAS Institute, Stellenbosch, South Africa
April 2019
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Proceedings Report

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Who Are We

The Global Steering Committee

  • Brian Allwood, Stellenbosch University (Chair)

  • Sumona Datta, Imperial College London and the University of Lima (in absentia)

  • Carlton Evans, Imperial College London and the University of Lima (in absentia)

  • Olena Ivanova, Tropical Institute Munich

  • Rupert Jones, the University of Plymouth (in absentia)

  • Florian Marx, Stellenbosch University

  • Jamilah Meghji, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

  • Kevin Mortimer, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

  • Stellah Mpagama, Kibong’oto Infectious Diseases Hospital

  • Andrea Rachow, Tropical Institute Munich

  • Marieke van der Zalm, Stellenbosch University

  • Sanne van Kampen, University of Plymouth

Participants

67

Workshops

8

Sessions

6

Speakers

14

Programme

Day 1: 22/07/2019

Session 1: Chair Brian Allwood & Kevin Mortimer

8.30 - 09.00

Welcome, Introductions and Expectations (Brian Allwood / Kevin Mortimer)
09.00 - 09.10

Message from Rector of Stellenbosch University (Wim de Villiers)
09.10 - 09.30

Opening Address (Eric Bateman)

09.30 - 09.50
Lecture #1: Patient perspectives (Ingrid Schoeman)
09.50 - 10.10

Lecture #2: Pulmonary TB outcomes (Andrea Rachow)
10.10 - 10.30

Lecture #3: Phenotyping in post-TB disease (Brian Allwood)

10.30 - 11.00

TEA

Session 2: Chair Jamilah Meghji & Stellah Mpagama

11.00 - 11.20

Lecture #4: Children after TB (Diane Gray)
11.20 - 11.40

Lecture #5: Socio-economic consequences & QALY (Denise Evans)
11.40 - 12.00

Lecture #6: Targeting TB control to former TB patients (Florian Marx)
12.00 - 13.00

GROUP PHOTOGRAPH & LUNCH

Workshops

13.00 - 15.00

Workshop 1: Lung complications after TB

(Brian Allwood / Jamilah Meghji)


Workshop 2: Former TB patients in the context of the End TB Strategy

(Florian Marx / Dalene von Delft / Sumona Datta)


Workshop 3: Socio-economic and psychological Impact

(Olena Ivanova / Denise Evans / Graeme Hoddinott)


Workshop 4: Paediatric complications of TB

(Marieke van der Zalm / Diane Gray)

15.00 - 15.30

 

TEA

 

15.30 - 16.30

Workshops 1-4 (continue)

 

16:30 - 17.30

Plenary Workshop Feedback

17.30

Dinner for all delegates

Day 2: 23/07/2019

Session 3: Chair Sanne van Kampen & Florian Marx

08.30 - 08.40

Logistics Update
08.40 - 09.00

Lecture #7: Mechanisms of TB destruction (Naomi Walker)
09.00 - 09.20

Lecture #8: Host directed therapy to improve TB outcomes (Rob Wallis)
09.20 - 09.40

Lecture #9: Pulmonary rehabilitation (William Worodria)
09.40 - 10.00

Lecture #10: Therapies for treatment post TB (Stellah van Kampen)
10.00 - 10.20

Lecture #11: Malawian cohort (Jamilah Meghji)
10.20 - 11.00

TEA

Session 4: Chair Marieke van der Zalm & Andrea Rachow

11.00 - 11.20

Lecture #12: Advocacy for Post-TB disease (Kevin Mortimer)
11.20 - 11.40

Lecture #13: Diagnosing recurrent TB among former TB patients (Grant Theron)
11.40 - 12.00

Lecture #14: Mortality after TB (Mohammed Osman)
12.00 - 13.00

LUNCH

Workshops

13.00 - 15.00

 

Workshop 5: Pathogenesis /mechanisms of disease & prevention of damage

(Naomi Walker / Cari Stek / Rob Wallis)

Workshop 6: Treatment & holistic management

(Sanne van Kampen / (Rupert Jones) / Stellah Mpagama)

Workshop 7: Health systems advocacy

(Kevin Mortimer / Uzoh Egere / Ingrid Schoeman)


Workshop 8: Burden of disease/risk factors/mortality (Epidemiology)

Andrea Rachow / Andre Amaral

15.00 - 15.30

 

TEA

 

15.30 - 16.30

 

Workshops 1 - 4 (continue)

 

16.30 - 17.30

Plenary Workshop Feedback

17.30 - 18.00

 

Discussion: Focus of Definitions

18.00

 

DINNER FOR STEERING COMMITTEE & WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Meet The Delegates

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