MSF Scientific Days Southern Africa 2024
MSF Scientific Days Southern Africa will take place in Eswatini on 17 April
You can also join us online from 9am (South African Standard Time)
This year’s event gathers speakers and attendees from around the world through a hybrid format for thought-provoking sessions on:
- Tuberculosis: celebrating successes, addressing challenges
- Sexual health in precarious settings (STIs and AMR)
- Diagnosing acute early HIV and pre-exposure prophylaxis in a choice framework
- New operational strategies for old problems: the patients and populations as partners approach
You are welcome to join us in person or online.
For those who would like to attend in person, please email at MSFCH-Manzini-EpidemioManager@geneva.msf.org by 10 April.
For those who would like to join us online, please sign up to our mailing list below, and we will send details of the online platform in due course.
9:00 – 9:15 Opening remarks
- Head of Mission: Dr Luis Neira
- Chief Guest: Mr Mduduzi Matsebula (Minister of Health)
- Programme Director: Dr Hayk Karakozian
Session 1: Sexual health in precarious settings
Chair – Dr Bongiwe Malinga
9:15 – 9:55 Dr Bernhard Kerschberger – High burden and diagnostic complexities of genital infections with Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), Neisseria gonorrhoea (NG), and Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) – insights from Eswatini.
9:55 – 10:15 Dr Christine Al Kady – Are antibiotics being over-prescribed for the treatment of urinary tract infections? A prospective study among pregnant refugees in Beirut, Lebanon
10:15 – 10:45 Q&A/Discussion
10:45 – 11:10 Coffee break
Session 2: Tuberculosis: celebrating successes, addressing challenges
Chair – Dr Debra Vambe
11:10 – 11:30 Dr Animesh Sinha – Six-month multidrug-resistant tuberculosis regimens: from trials to practice
11:30 – 11:50 Dr Kunda K. Mikanda – Improving treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: results of the endTB randomised clinical trial the endTB clinical improving treatment of multidrug-resistant
11:50 – 12:10 Dr Lazro Fidelle Nyikayo Bol – Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra on stool and urine to diagnose tuberculosis in children living with HIV in South Sudan
12:10 – 12:40 Q&A/Discussion
12:40 – 13 :40 Lunch Break
Session 3: New operational strategies for old problems: the ‘patients and populations as partners’ approach
Chair – Ms Babhekile Shongwe
13:40 – 13:45 Facilitator Babhekile introduces the patients and populations as partners (PPP) topic
13:45 – 14:35 Marcos Tamariz – Presentation illustrating PPP in practice: A case of the Mombasa study
- Marcos Tamariz (Panelist 1): Supporting efforts to reduce HIV key population stigma among healthcare workers in Mombasa
- Radoslav Antono (Panelist 2): Eswatini
- Lungile Khumalo (Panelist 3): Eswatini voice of the voiceless
- Precious Shongwe (Panelist 4): Eswatini Network of young positives
14:35 – 15:00 Coffee break
Session 4: Diagnosing acute and early HIV infection and pre-exposure prophylaxis in a choice framework
Chair – Make Sindy Matse
15:00 – 15:20 Dr Iza Ciglenecki – Burden of acute and early HIV infection in an outpatient setting in Shiselweni, Eswatini
15:20 – 15:40 Dr Esther Mukooza – Drivers of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis choice among women in Eswatini given availability of oral PrEP and vaginal PrEP ring.
15:40 – 16:20 Q&A/Discussion
16:20 – 16:30 Closing remarks