GSA Chicago Meeting Report and Slides
The GSA hosted a special one-day meeting on the 18th of October in Chicago, after the COR NTD meeting has concluded, as the ASMTH annual meeting commences.
The GSA meeting, Schistosomiasis: Celebrating Recent Achievements Supporting Elimination Goals, offered an opportunity to hear about the progress made by schistosomiasis programmes, celebrate ongoing work and consider some of the exciting research and developments that will help us reach the elimination targets.
This one-day meeting explored how WHO policies and guidelines are providing the stimulus for countries to advance with their control and elimination programmes and provided examples of how countries are monitoring disease, implementing control interventions and integrating schistosomiasis treatments into health services. The complexity of transmission of this water borne disease means cross cutting activities between different sectors such as water development, agriculture and health are an absolute must, and progress in this area was illustrated by recent studies. Research is providing new tools with the potential to enhance schistosomiasis control, and some of the exciting advances relating to diagnosis, drug resistance and vaccines was shared.
Read a summary of the meeting here
La GSA a organisé une réunion spéciale d'une journée le 18 octobre à Chicago, après la fin de la réunion COR NTD, alors que commençait la réunion annuelle de l'ASMTH.
La réunion de la GSA, intitulée Schistosomiasis : Celebrating Recent Achievements Supporting Elimination Goals, a été l'occasion d'entendre parler des progrès réalisés par les programmes de lutte contre la schistosomiase, de célébrer les travaux en cours et d'envisager certaines des recherches et des développements passionnants qui nous aideront à atteindre les objectifs d'élimination.
Cette réunion d'une journée a permis d'examiner comment les politiques et les lignes directrices de l'OMS incitent les pays à progresser dans leurs programmes de lutte et d'élimination et a fourni des exemples de la manière dont les pays surveillent cette maladie, mettent en œuvre des interventions de lutte et intègrent les traitements de la schistosomiase dans les services de santé. La complexité de la transmission de cette maladie transmise par l'eau signifie que les activités transversales entre différents secteurs tels que le développement de l'eau, l'agriculture et la santé sont une nécessité absolue, et les progrès dans ce domaine ont été illustrés par des études récentes. La recherche fournit de nouveaux outils susceptibles d'améliorer la lutte contre la schistosomiase, et certaines des avancées passionnantes en matière de diagnostic, de résistance aux médicaments et de vaccins ont été présentées.
Meeting Programme and Slides
Time (CTD) |
Topic |
Speaker |
8:30 - 9:00 |
Welcome Light Breakfast |
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9:00 - 9:05 |
David Rollinson |
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Global Perspectives of Recent Achievements.Chair: David Rollinson |
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9:05 - 09:50 |
[20mins + 10mins Q&A] |
Amadou Garba Pauline Mwinzi WHO |
Praziquantel: How much is enough? [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Johannes Waltz Merck Schistosomiasis Elimination Program |
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Targeted interventions, decentralized community programmes, integration with health systems, sustaining elimination.Chair: Wellington Oyibo |
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09:50 - 11:10 |
Decentralized community programs for sustained control interventions. [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Florence Wakesho Ministry of Health, Kenya |
[10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Alain Kouamin Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage, Côte D’Ivoire |
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Schistosomiasis Treatment Impact Survey in Ghana 2022-2023. [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Joseph Opare Ghana Health Service, Ministry of Health, Ghana |
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Unravelling Success: Schistosomiasis Impact Assessment in Tanzania. [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
George Kabona Ministry of Health Tanzania |
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Discussion [10mins] |
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11:10 - 11:20 |
Morning Coffee and Tea Break |
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Cross-cutting, cross-sector collaborations and initiatives.Chair: Louis-Albert Tchuem Tchuenté |
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11:20 - 12:30 |
WASH and schistosomiasis: Focal solutions for a focal disease. [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Fiona Fleming Unlimit Health |
A planetary health innovation for disease, food and water challenges in Africa. [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Jason Rohr University of Notre Dame |
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sNailed it: Unlocking the potential of citizen science to control and prevent snail-borne diseases. [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Noelia Valderrama KU Leuven / Royal Museum for Central Africa |
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[10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Giulio de Leo Stanford University |
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Discussion 10 mins |
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12:30 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
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Research developments in behaviour change approaches, diagnostics and morbidity.Chair: Anne Straily |
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1:30 - 2:30 |
Partnering with Communities to [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Michal Bruck / Zvi Bentwich NALA Foundation |
Closing the diagnostic gap for Schistosomiasis. [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Sarah Hingel FIND |
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[10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Omosefe Osinoiki Sightsavers |
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The epidemiology of periportal fibrosis and the relevance of current Schistosoma mansoni infection. [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Goylette Chami University of Oxford |
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2:30 -2:45 |
Afternoon Coffee and Tea |
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Innovations in drug resistance, One Health and vaccines.Chair: Bonnie Webster |
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2:45 - 3:45 |
Field surveillance for emerging Praziquantel Resistance in Schistosomes. [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Tim Anderson Texas Biomedical Research Institute |
Leveraging One Health for the control and elimination of schistosomiasis. [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Martin Walker Royal Veterinary College |
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Recent updates on Sm-p80-based schistosomiasis vaccine. [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Aravindan Kalyanasundaram Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center |
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The schistosome controlled human infection program, experiences from the Netherlands and Uganda. [10mins + 5mins Q&A] |
Meta Roestenberg Leiden University |
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3:45 – 3:55 |
Discussion 10mins |
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3:55 – 4:00 |
Wrap up and close of meeting |
David Rollinson / Anouk Gouvras / Johannes Waltz |