MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS
MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS
We warmly invite you to join us at the Wolfson Pavilion Lecture Theatre
Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine (IDM)
University of Cape Town, South Africa
3-5 April 2020
OBJECTIVES
• To describe the emergence of MDR/XDR & programmatically incurable TB
• To present current best practices for management, detection & control
• To examine new approaches for detection & treatment
• To examine models of care for people with infectious drug resistant TB
• To provide an update on current research
• To identify knowledge gaps & research needs
Limited Sponsored Registrations are available!
Subsidised registration fees will be offered. Contact the conference team for more information: roxanne.adams@uct.ac.za
TOPICS INCLUDE
New diagnostic tools | Interpreting next generation sequencing | Treatment
algorithms | Toxicity & tolerance | New drugs and HIV | Adherence | Incurable TB |
Care for home discharged patients | Personal protection | Drug gradients in the lung |
New drug research | Host mediated therapies | The patient perspective
Organised by the Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity
Division of Pulmonology, UCT Lung Institute
Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town
For further information, contact Roxanne van Wyk | Email: roxanne.adams@uct.ac.za
 |
 |
 |