This year’s The Union World Conference on Lung Health being held in Paris, France, November 14-18 offers a platform to disseminate and discuss pertinent information on Lung health.
The conference theme; Transforming Evidence to Practice calls for the strive to go behold generating new evidence from research projects and publishing them to converting the research into practice for evidence-based health policies and decisions.
With support from the United States Agency for international Development (USAID), CHS through its TB ARC II activity has been working collaboratively with Kenya’s National TB Program to reduce the incidence and number of deaths due to tuberculosis in Kenya by:
- Increasing timely use of quality TB, TB/HIV & DR-TB treatment
- Enhancing participatory approaches to improve TB service uptake
- Enhancing the efficiency & sustainability of the National TB Program
In this year’s The Union Conference, CHS, National TB Program and County speakers will share best practices and lessons learned on improving TB services in Kenya through various interventions implemented with support from USAID TB ARC II activity.
Below is the schedule of the CHS supported skills building workshop, symposia, oral presentations, and E-poster presentation at the conference;
Workshop
Session: TBData4Action in one day-using routine data for quality improvement of TB prevention, case finding and case holding
Presentation Title: TBData4Action Training in Kenya – A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Co-Designing, Adaptation, Planning and Execution of a Nation-Wide Training for National and Sub-National TB Managers
Presenter: Dr Lorraine Mugambi – Nyaboga
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Time: 12:15 – 12:35 CEST
Symposia
SP48: Right Place, Right Time: The ECHO Virtual Community of Practice Model Transforms Clinical and Public Health Evidence into Practice
H1: Systems for Training and Programmatic Capacity Building
Presentation Title: Kenya Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) ECHO: A Virtual Community of Practice Training Model for Health workers in Meru County, Kenya
Presenter: Duncan Barkebo
Date: Saturday, 18 Nov 2023
Time: 15:15 – 16:45 CEST
Oral Presentations
Session: TB Diagnosis for All and MWD for All
Presentation Title: A Multi-Stakeholder, Diagnostic Network-Informed, Roll Out of Truenat MTB RIF Assay: the Kenyan Experience
Presenter: Kennedy Muimi
Date: Saturday, November 18, 2023
Time: 9:20 – 9:29 CEST
Session: CAD for Tuberculosis
Presentation Title: Digital Chest X-ray with Computer Aided Diagnosis a Useful Tool to Diagnose TB among Persons in Contact with TB Patients Comparing with Non-Contacts, Kenya, 2022 – 2023
Presenter: Rhoda Pola
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2023
Time: 9:02 – 9:11 CEST
E-Poster Presentations
Topic: Improving Case Finding for Extra-Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Meru County Teaching and Referral Hospital – Kenya
Presenter: Duncan Barkebo
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Time: 16:30 – 16:35 CEST
Topic: Tuberculosis Case Finding Outcomes Following Automation of TB Screening Questions in the Electronic Medical Records; A Case Study of Matata Hospital, Homabay County, Kenya
Presenter: Casper Ndole
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Time: 16:40 – 16:45 CEST
Access the conference program here.
