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Join PATH at the 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health 2019

October 29, 2019 by PATH

From October 30 to November 2, thousands of clinicians, public health workers, health program managers, policymakers, researchers, and advocates will gather in Hyderabad, India, for the world’s largest conference on lung health: Union World Conference on Lung Health 2019. PATH experts will share how our programs have:

  • introduced and provided service delivery across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Europe
  • focused on missing TB cases of pediatrics and latent TB
  • integrated HIV/TB co-infection prevention and treatment
  • used digital technologies and engaged the private sector in ending TB

We hope that you can join PATH at one of our satellite sessions, stop by the poster exhibition to chat with our experts, and follow us throughout Union Conference 2019 at www.path.org and Twitter (@PATHtweets and #UnionConf2019).

Please find a schedule of events below.

Wednesday, October 30

Workshop

  • Rolling out a roadmap to accelerate the engagement of private and public care providers to ensure universal access to quality TB care
    8:00–14:00; MR 2.03 & 2.04
    The number of people who developed TB and were not aware exceeded 3 million people in 2017. This gap is especially high in high burden countries with large private sectors. The purpose of this workshop is advocate for greater engagement of unengaged public and private health care providers and learn more about the public-private mix (PPM) from panelists. PATH’s Shibu Vijayan will be presenting how the Revised National TB Control Project (RNTCP) and partner organizations are working together to achieve the common goal of TB elimination in India. Specifically referencing initial experiences from the Joint Effort for Elimination of Tuberculosis (JEET) project.

Thursday, October 31

E-Poster Exhibition

  • Engaging private practitioners for early HIV screening and treatment initiation of tuberculosis (TB) patients in Mumbai, Maharashtra
     12:15-13:15; E-Poster Exhibition Area

Poster Discussion Session

  • Losses in the sputum referral chain: the case of Mpulungu district, Northern Province Zambia
    12:45-13:45; Hall 3

Friday, November 1

Satellite Session

  • Implementation of electronic medication monitors and video-supported treatment (VOT) in Ukraine
    18:00-19:30; Novotel Ballroom
    Digital adherence technologies can help overcome health care disparities by allowing patients greater freedom to participate in their own care, reduce indirect cost of medical care, and enhance autonomy and dignity, while simultaneously providing providers with timely information on patients’ treatment adherence to tailor case-management. PATH’s Aleksey Bognadov will speak on this panel more about this technology and how it has affected treatment in Ukraine

Poster Discussion Sessions

  • Designing a TB Operational Research Training Program: Experience from the USAID Eradicate TB Project in Zambia
    12:45-13:45; Hall 3
  • Risk Factors of Unfavourable Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes for Patients Initiating on Treatment from January-June 2017 in Chingola District of Zambia
    12:45-13:45; Hall 3
  • Sample panels to support the development of nucleic acid-based diagnostic assays for Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    12:45-13:45; Hall 3

Oral Abstract Session

  • Integrating tuberculosis screening services in differentiated care models for HIV to increase detection of TB/HIV co-infection
    6:00-17:30; MR G.01 & G.02

Saturday, November 2

  • Improving universal access to Drug Resistant TB care in the private sector through effective treatment linkage model to the public sector
    10:30–12:30; MR G.03 & G.04
  • Influencing provider behavior through marketing management for use of fixed dose combinations in the private sector
    10:30–12:30; MR G.03 & G.04
  • Engaging in the private sector in TB care
    10:30–12:30; MR G.03 & G.04

Poster Exhibitions

  • Improving Tuberculosis Diagnosis using an Integrated TB/HIV Intra-District Courier System in Kasama District, Zambia.
    12:15-13:15; E-Poster Exhibition Area
  • Joint Effort to End TB in India - Two-fold increase in TB case notification; One year implementation data analysis
    12:15-13:15; E-Poster Exhibition Area
  • Patient Provider Interface Agency to Patient Provider Support Agency: A story of integration from NGO to Government
    12:15-13:15; E-Poster Exhibition Area

Poster Discussion Sessions

  • Leveraging Chemist Networks to Improve Access to NTP Drugs in the Private Sector in India: A Market Approach
    12:45-13:45; Hall 3
  • Integrating tuberculosis screening services in differentiated care models for HIV to increase detection of TB/HIV coinfection
    12:45-13:45; Hall 3
  • Estimating losses in the Pediatric TB Care Cascade from Point of Entry to TB notification: A Case Study of Ndola District, Zambia
    12:45-13:45; Hall 3