Events

KAMPALA, 13 December 2009 (PlusNews) - The African AIDS Vaccine Programme (AAVP) is a network of African scientists, advocates, community and policy leaders with a mission to advocate for and support a coordinated international effort to promote the development of and future access to HIV vaccines suitable for use in Africa. The AAVP 5th international forum will take place in Kampala, Uganda on 13 - 15 December 2009. The meeting will convene a wide range of stakeholders in order to ensure strong linkages and collaboration and to provide important updates on a field that is constantly evolving.

For more information:
AAVP secretariat,
WHO-UNAIDS HIV Vaccine Initiative (HVI),
Initiative for Vaccine Research (IVR),
WHO

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The 3rd Eurasia Congress of Infectious Diseases (EACID) (formerly International Congress of Central Asia Infectious Diseases, ICCAID) is being organised by the Black Sea Society of Clinic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (BSCMID). The congress has been scheduled for 1-4 October 2009 in Baku, Azerbaijan, with collaboration of European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC).

The scientific programme of the congress will focus on important aspects of current infectious diseases, including developments in food-borne infections, antimicrobial resistance, tuberculosis, vaccines, epidemiology of endemic diseases and public health issues in developing countries. All these and related issues will be complemented by open discussions after presentations, meet-the-expert and poster sessions. The papers/posters will be presented as a congress book at the congress.

Course details are available at the congress website, www.eacid.org.

Promoting health and development: closing the implementation gap

The 7th Global Conference on Health Promotion, organized by WHO and Kenya's Ministry of Public Health, will be held in Nairobi, 26-30 October 2009. It is the latest in the series, which began in Ottawa in 1986 and produced the Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion. The benchmark conference was followed by Adelaide in 1988, Sundsvall 1991, Jakarta 1997, Mexico-City 2000 and Bangkok 2005.

Register your interest at http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/7gchp/en/

HAI Africa intern Carole Piriou presents the survey findings at a briefing session at the just-concluded World Health Assembly in Geneva.A new study undertaken by HAI Africa and presented during the HAI briefing session on Rational Use of Medicines and pharmaceutical promotion, at the just concluded 62nd World Health Assembly in Geneva, revealed how unethical medicine promotion is rampant in five African countries. The study, entitled “Measuring unethical Pharmaceutical Promotion: A study of Advertising in Five African Countries” conducted in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Madagascar showed how pharmaceutical companies use unethical means to promote their medicine.

Presenting preliminary results of the study HAI Africa’s intern Carole Piriou said although most of the countries involved had some form of regulation on pharmaceutical promotion, there was lack of enforcement of the regulation leading to inappropriate advertisements aimed at health workers and the public.