Infectious Diseases and HIV Conference

Tropical medicine and health is an important cross-disciplinary field of research focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases typical in tropical and subtropical territories.

This session shall seek to outline the challenges in tropical medicine, recent innovations, and their implications for global health. It is evident that most regions of the world maintain tropical diseases as important public health problems, including malaria, dengue fever, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, and neglected tropical diseases.

From learning about epidemiology of such diseases including socio-economic, environmental, and political determinants that explain their persistence and spread, participants will be better informed on the means of prevention and control. Rapid detection and appropriate treatment of tropical diseases are necessarily better.

Access to health facilities and essential tools is still wanting in many regions. Innovative means of diagnosis will be presented such as rapid tests, especially molecular techniques aiming at improving the capability of detecting and identifying pathogens even in resource-limited settings. Participants will also visit current guidelines on the management of treatment and challenges of drug resistance in these infections.

Several of the public health approaches, such as community-based interventions and health education, will represent novel approaches to confront these tropical diseases. Preventive vaccination and vector control -including the use of insecticide-treated nets, environmental management, and others-will be pointed to as major components.

Finally, this session will emphasize the importance of international co-operation in tropical medicine. Participants will address the respective roles of international institutions, governments, and NGOs in dealing with the burden imposed by tropical diseases.

Co-operation is crucial for policy implementation, access to health services, and surveillance systems. Other sessions will cover evolving issues in tropical medicine, for example, the impact of climate change on disease and globalizing infectious diseases.

This dynamic input offers a uniqueness to assess rising pandemics that might occur in the future and attempt to predict which future public health threats are likely to arise.

Join us in an exciting session by leading masters to navigate the complexities of tropical medicine and health, thereby striving to raise our conception and control of tropical diseases in the global context.