Events 2009

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[September 6-10, 2009]
6th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health
(ECTMIH) - Verona, Italy
Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) held a joint
workshop at the most important European congress on tropical medicine to discuss the following
topic: “Unfinished business on the road to elimination: experiences, needs, and priorities in
accessing patients and adequate health tools to treat Chagas disease and sleeping sickness”

MSF-DNDi Workshop Program:

“Unfinished business on the road to elimination: experiences, needs, and priorities in accessing
patients and adequate health tools to treat Chagas disease and sleeping sickness”

Thursday, 10 September, 9.15-11.00, Room 1

Chair: Unni Karunakara, Columbia Earth Institute, USA

Presentations:

“Neglected tropical diseases: MSF experience in treating, advocating, and changing policy”
by Unni Karunakara, Columbia Earth Institute (USA)

“Innovative Partnerships to Deliver Needs-Driven R&D”
by Manica Balasegaram, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative

“Sleeping sickness is not asleep everywhere: recent field experiences of MSF in Africa”
by Francois Chappuis, Médecins Sans Frontières, and Division of International and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals & University of Geneva (Switzerland)

“Breaking the silence: Campaigning to wake up the world to the needs of the most neglected”
by Gemma Ortiz, Médecins Sans Frontières (Spain)

Two films will be broadcasted during the session:
•    BBC’s Survival Series – the Briefing / “The Deadliest Disease” and
•    CNN’s coverage of MSF Chagas treatment centers in the field.

The presentations will be followed by an audience discussion with the panel.