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AFRICA CONFERENCE ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES, EMERGENCY RISKS AND TRAVEL MEDICINE (ACIDER-TM 2012)
| Location: | Nigeria |
| Conference Date: | 2012-04-11 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-09-22 |
| Announcement ID: |
188283 |
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The congress will focus on vaccine development, the prevention of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, as well as others that affect historically underserved populations; the development, use, and sustainability of diagnostic tools and technologies; maternal, reproductive and child health; advocacy for raising awareness and promoting leadership for these issues; educating all institutional staff on the impact of infectious disease in correctional facilities, educating correctional healthcare staff about security issues that affect correctional health care; educating security staff about the importance of infectious disease control and correctional healthcare, offering tools, including best practice models for care, treatment, and prevention, for participants to emulate in their institutions and community programs; promoting collaboration among institutional security, health care, and community program staff to improve the control of infectious disease in the inmate population and identifying and overcoming barriers to infectious disease screening, care, and control.
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