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Strong Presence of ISGlobal at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Researchers from ISGlobal and CISM present their work at the 63rd edition of the ASTMH meeting in New Orleans

07.11.2014
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The 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) took place in New Orleans from 2 to 6 November, bringing together more than 3,700 global health experts from 98 countries. Several researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and the Manhiça Health Research Centre (CISM) attended the five-day meeting to present the results of their research.

The researchers participated in various sessions, including Assessing the Human Infectious Reservoir of Malaria; Anemia - A Hidden Disease: New Evidence and Tools to Reduce its High Global Impact; Exploring our Understanding of Causes of Death in Developing Countries; Etiology of All-Level Anemia in Mozambique; and Gametocyte Carriage and Infectivity in Non-African Settings: Trans-EPI Project. They also presented 13 scientific posters on topics such as malaria during pregnancy, Plasmodium vivax malaria, malaria elimination, and the first functional model of a spleen-on-a-chip.

Researchers from ISGlobal and CISM presented two studies as part of the scientific session Pneumonia, Respiratory Infections and Tuberculosis. One study focused on biomarkers for diagnosing the pathogen of febrile respiratory distress, and the other examined the high prevalence of Pneumocystis jirovecii infections in Mozambican children under five years of age who are hospitalised with suspected pneumonia. The scientific session Filariasis: Epidemiology and Control included the presentation of a study, co-authored by an ISGlobal researcher, on the financial and economic costs associated with the control, elimination and eradication of river blindness in Africa. The authors received an ASTMH Young Investigator Award for their work in this study.

ISGlobal also participated in parallel events during the meeting, including the call to action for the scale-up of intermittent preventive treatment during pregnancy organised by Roll Back Malaria, the Malaria in Pregnancy Working Group and the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium.