Atlanta, Georgia – From November 11-15, 2012, PSI will join thousands of scientists, clinicians and program professions from around the world to mark the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 10 PSI staff will attend the conference to share knowledge and experiences from around the world. PSI will participate in symposia, panels and poster presentations about a range of topics – from the scale up of integrated community case management to the role of the private sector in preventing and controlling malaria and other tropical diseases.
PSI at ASMTH 61st Annual Meeting
Be sure to visit PSI at booth 217 in the Exhibition Hall at the Marriott Marquis Atlanta.
Monday November 12, 12:00 – 1:45pm – Hilton, Galleria Hall
[Poster Presentation]
- Tracking Malaria Case Management Coverage in the Era of ACT and RDT Scale-up: Possibilities and Limitations with Using Household Surveys [Megan Littrell]
Tuesday November 13, 10:15am – 12:00pm – Marriott, Imperial A
ACTwatch [Symposium]
- Antimalarials in ACTion: Five Years of Evidence on Markets and Policy Change in Malaria Treatment
Tuesday November 13, 7:15 – 9:00pm – Marriott, Marquis A
Independent Evaluation of the AMFm Subsidy [Symposium]
- Impact of the Affordable Medicines Facility – Malaria (Phase I) on ACT Availability, Price, Market Share and Use
Wednesday November 14, 10:15am – 12:00pm – Marriott, Marquis A
Malaria: Tracking Operational Issues [Panel]
- Antimalarial Markets and Treatment-seeking Behavior for Suspected Malaria in Myanmar and Cambodia: Results from Antimalarial Outlet and Household Surveys 2011-2012 [Megan Littrell]
Wednesday November 14, 12:00 – 1:45pm – Hilton, Galleria Hall
[Poster Presentation]
- Reach of the Green Leaf: Exposure, Awareness, and Reported Use of AMFm-Branded Medicines in Three Countries [Stephen Poyer]
Wednesday November 14, 4:00 – 5:45pm – Marriott, Room A706/A707
Scaling Up Integrated Community Case Management for Children in Low-Resource Settings: Review of Evidence from Implementation Research [Symposium]
- Improving Coverage of Case Management for Malaria, Pneumonia, and Diarrhea Among Children Under Five Through a Social Franchise Network: Evaluation Results from Uganda [Megan Littrell]
Thursday November 15, 8:00 – 9:45am – Marriott, Marquis A
Appropriate Case Management in the Private Sector [Symposium]
- The Role of the Private Sector in the Provision of Antimalarials, Multi-country Findings [Tanya Shewchuk]
- Barriers to Appropriate Case Management in the Private Sector [Janee Miller]
- Trends in Provider Behavior Captured Through Routine Monitoring of Case Management of Childhood Illnesses Among Social Franchise Network Providers in Uganda [Robert Mugerwa (PACE)]
Click here to print a summary of PSI’s presence at the Annual Meeting.
Learn More about our Work
- PSI’s Impact Magazine: A Healthy Start to Life
- PSI’s malaria work
- PSI’s child survival work
- PSI’s integrated case management strategy
- More about integrated community case management of pneumonia, malaria & diarrhea
- Lessons learned from CIDA-funded community case management programs in Cameroon, DRC, Malawi & Mali
- 8 iCCM programs highlight diverse approaches to reduce top child killers
- Follow the need case study: Business in a basket – Motivating community health workers and improving health outcomes in Madagsacar
- Follow the need case study: Recipe for scaling up access to quality pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria case management in South Sudan
