Dear Centre Leaders,
Greetings from the INDEPTH Training and Resource Centre. We hope you had a fruitful week. We have the following items for your kind attention:
Pre-registration open – ISC2018 (INDEPTH@20), 26-28 November 2018 in Pretoria, South Africa
AHRI :Safe water supplies radically reduce parasitic infection among South African children
The Manhica Foundation's Global Health Symposium
Navrongo HDSs: NAMRU 3 & US Biofire Defense to collaborate with NHRC
Keeping women’s health at the heart of the Sustainable Development agenda
1) Pre-registration open – ISC2018 (INDEPTH@20), 26-28 November 2018 in Pretoria, South Africa
St. George Hotel, South Africa.
Centre Leaders and teams, working groups and INDEPTH projects may now pre-register for INDEPTH’s 20th anniversary celebrations in Pretoria, South Africa. We have chosen a date that doesn’t conflict with the major other international conferences. So please block the dates, pre-register and let us know your specific needs for sessions and workshops.
Please preregister by visiting the ISC2018 (INDEPTH@20) webpage which is now available.
2) AHRI: Safe water supplies radically reduce parasitic infection among South African children
The increased supply of safe water in a rural South African community has significantly reduced the chances of children contracting a parasitic disease. This is according to new research by Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) scientists, published in eLife.
The study, carried out in a community in rural KwaZulu-Natal, demonstrated that increased provisions of safe water over a period of seven years have led to an eight-fold decrease in the risk of children becoming infected with urogenital schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia. This impact is substantially greater than previous results have suggested. Read more
3) The Manhica Foundation's Global Health Symposium
The Manhiça Foundation hosted the Global Health Symposium on March 8 as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the CISM’s creation. The symposium aimed to discuss the challenges and opportunities of Read more
4) Navrongo HDSs: NAMRU 3 & US Biofire Defense to collaborate with NHRC
A team of scientists from The U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit-No. 3 (NAMRU-3), Ghana detachment and the US Biofire Defense company have visited the NHRC to discuss the prospects of conducting a new study titled Prospective Clinical Evaluation of the FilmArray® Global Fever (GF) Panel. Read more
5) Keeping women’s health at the heart of the Sustainable Development agenda
Despite myriad targets and 17 inter-related goals, the 2030 Sustainable Development agenda has, at its core, a single prevailing ambition: to invest wisely in ensuring that no one is left behind in the race to achieve growth. And central to this ambition is keeping people of all backgrounds, ages and creeds, healthy, alive and able to contribute productively to their homes, their communities and their societies as a whole. Read more
