Session 2: Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases – 3rd James Hakim Memorial Lectures

Session 2: Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases – 3rd James Hakim Memorial Lectures

Chaired by: Catherine Hankins and Clement Ahoussinou

10:50 AM – Interrupting the Unending Cycles of Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases Outbreaks – A Possibility or Pipe Dream!

Ifedayo Adetifa, MBBS, FWACP (Paediatrics), MSc, PhD
Independent Researcher/Consultant, Nigeria

11:10 AM – HIV-2
Didier Koumavi Ekouevi, MD, PhD
Université de Lomé, Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Santé Publique, Togo

11:30 AM – Audience Q&A

11:45 AM – Oral Abstract presentations I

Chaired by: Josue Avakoudjo & Samiratou Ouedraogo

12:05 PM – Inability-To-Walk-Unaided – A Single WHO Danger Sign Predicts In-Hospital Mortality in People Living With HIV in a Low-Resource Setting

#1 – Chikaiko Malunda, Malawi

12:15 PM – Eligibility for Long-Acting Cabotegravir/Rilpivirine and Archived Drug Resistance Mutations Among People Living with HIV-1 subtype C in Botswana

#2 – Dorcas Maruapula, Botswana

12:25 PM Tenofovir and Doravirine Are Potential Reverse-Transcriptase Analogs for Combination With the New Reverse-Transcriptase Translocation Inhibitor (Islatravir) Among Treatment-Experienced Patients in Cameroon: Designing Future Treatment Strategies for Low- And Middle-Income Countries

#3 – Alex Durand Nka, Cameroon

12:35 PM – Transition to 3-Test HIV Testing Algorithm Saves 371 Individuals From Potential Misdiagnosis: Lessons From Malawi’s HIV Testing Program

#4 – Tiwonge Chirwa, Malawi