Daily programme - Wednesday 14 November 2012

Title of workshop	Session(s)
01. Making your city smoke-free (half day) CANCELLED	Lung health \| TC
02. Linking outcomes to finances: performance-based management	TB
03. Transitioning to sustainable pharmaceutical management systems for TB	TB
04. Stigma associated with TB, TB/HIV and asthma: causes, impact and solutions (half day)	Lung health
05. Ensuring migrants’ access to TB prevention, care and support (half day)	TB
06. Preventing child deaths from drug resistant tuberculosis (half day)	Lung health
07. Scale up of community-based MDR treatment: strategies for decentralised planning and service delivery (half day)	TB
08. Operational research skills in one day	TB \| HIV

post-graduate courses

Delegates are able to register for just a post-graduate course - It is not mandatory to register for the whole conference.

Delegates are required to register and a fee of 100 € will apply.

All post-graduate courses will take place on Wednesday, 14 November 2012, in parallel. You can only attend one post-graduate course.

Please click here to download all post-graduate course descriptions as one PDF.

Title of post-graduate course	Session(s)
01. TB clinical trials: opportunity and relevance for TB programmes CANCELLED	TB \| HIV
02. Materials and methodology to effectively develop and evaluate transformational trainings	TB \| Nurses & Allied Professionals
03. An innovative approach to build capacity of civil society organisations	TB \| HIV \| Nurses & Allied Professionals
04. Building sustainable partnerships through effective use of the Internet and other electronic communications	TB \| Nurses & Allied Professionals
05. Tobacco cessation in HIV, TB and NCD programmes	TC
06. Tuberculosis diagnostic research: providing the evidence for scale-up and sustainability	TB
07. Developing sustainable tuberculosis infection control programmes	TB \| Nurses & Allied Professionals
08. Writing good qualitative research articles	TB \| HIV
09. Reading and interpreting childhood chest radiographs in high tuberculosis/HIV prevalence countries	Lung Health
10. Update on clinical and programmatic management of MDR- and XDR-TB	TB \| Nurses & Allied Professionals

plenary sessions

Speaker: Lee Reichman (USA) - Founding Executive Director of the New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute, and Professor of Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the New Jersey Medical School

Time: 17:30 - 18:15

Room: Plenary Hall

Sir John Crofton Memorial Lecture:

"Timebomb revisited ten years later: can we sustain progress or are we losing the war?"

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Click here for full details on the Sir John Crofton Memorial Lecture.

union ADMINISTRATIVE meetings

By Invitation Only

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
14:00 - 17:00	Editorial Board of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease	Room: 405

Inaugural address and awards ceremony

17:30 - 19:00: Inaugural Address followed by Awards Ceremony

welcome cocktail

19:00 - 20:30: The organising committee would like to invite all registered delegates and accompanying persons to a welcome cocktail to be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.

ROOM: Plenary Hall

side meetings

5th FIND and Partners Symposium

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
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13:00-17:00: Room: Conference Hall 1

(Meeting open to all delegates)

This symposium will review latest developments in TB diagnosis with a particular focus on detection of drug-resistance. The rise in MDR- and XDR-TB is reported repeatedly and represents a major challenge that requires a coordinated response. The session will highlight how innovations in diagnostics coupled with new anti-TB drugs are critical to the successful management of DR-TB. Presentations will update on progress towards improved knowledge of resistance patterns, the development of reliable assays to assess resistance to existing or new regimens and laboratory innovations to assist the effective introduction of these new tools.

Coordinator: Alessandra Varga, Consultant, Events and Image Development, FIND (Switzerland)
Chairs: Philippe Jacon (Switzerland), Catharina Boehme (Switzerland)

J2J Programme on Lung Health

(Closed meeting)

Monday, 12 November 2012 - Wednesday, 14 November 2012

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09:00-17:00: J2J Programme Room 304

The National Press Foundation and The Union are offering the 4th annual Journalist-to-Journalist (J2J) training on lung health issues at the World Conference.The training runs from Monday-Wednesday, 12-14 November and then the journalists participate in the conference. The training is designed for working journalists who want to increase their knowledge and skills at developing stories on lung health and related issues, such as the social, political and economic impact of lung disease. Sessions also cover the latest research, solutions and innovations that are in the pipeline.

Coordinators: Bob Meyers, Linda Streitfeld, National Press Foundation (USA), Alice Boatwright, The Union (France)