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1 PROVISIONAL SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME Provisional as at 21 May 2018 SATURDAY 07 JULY 08h30 18h00 Exco Meeting Dinner Century City Hotel Square SUNDAY 08 JULY 08h30-15h00 Exco Meeting 13h00 17h00 19h00 Congress Registration Welcome and Opening Ceremony Prof Shaheen Mehtar (Chair) Dr Jay Varma (deputy director) - African Union CDC Dr Ben Park (Head of Global IPC) - CDC Atlanta Prof Benedetta Allegranzi (Lead, Global Unit for IPC) - WHO HQ- Dr Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti, WHO AFRO Regional Director (Brazzaville) Followed by Exhibition Preview MONDAY 09 JULY 07h00 08h00 08h15 09h15 Breakfast Symposium Venue: TBC Keynote: Mother and Child infections and interventions that work in LMICs Prof Mike Sharland, (UK) : Angela Dramowski

2 MONDAY 09 JULY - Continues Free Paper Session Free Paper Session Free Paper Session Anna Maruta (Zimbabwe) Getachew Belay Kassa (Ethiopia) Nkwan Jacob Gobte (Cameroon) 09h15 10h00 10h00-10h30 Refreshments & Poster Viewing MONDAY 09 JULY Continues PLENARY SESSION 1 Paediatric Infectious Disease Tuberculosis- IPC: taking stock 10 years on Behavioural Change in IPC and AMS Angela Dramowski (South Africa) Karen Brudney (USA) Valerie Robertson (Zimbabwe) Carolyn Tarrant (UK) Linus Ndegwa (Kenya) Maternal AMR pathogens carriage and risks to the newborn: the situation in Africa - Andy Bulabula (DRC) Implementing a TB IPC programme in Africa-trials and tribulations - Ginny Lipke (USA) Behavioural change in AMS Carolyn Tarrant (UK) 10h30 12h30 Burden of HAI in neonates and children in developing countries - Awa Ndir (Senegal) Outbreaks of nosocomial sepsis in neonates - Erika van Schalkwyk (South Africa) Neonatal sepsis prevention in Africa - Angela Dramowski - (South Africa) Measuring progress and the driving factors in TBIC Junior Mutsvangwa - (Zimbabwe) Protecting healthcare workers in high TB prevalence countries - Karen Brudney (USA) Using culture to change behavior Getachew Belay Kassa (Ethiopia) Factors that can influence behavior change Using WASH as an example Nkwan Jacob Gobte (Cameroon) Behavioural change in HIV management Lawrence Adeokun (Nigeria)

3 MONDAY 09 JULY Continues Venue: 12h30 13:00 13h00 14h00 Venue: TBC : Sade Ogunsola State of the Art lecture: Implementing the latest WHO guidelines with limited resources, can it be done? Benedetta Allegranzi (Geneva) Lunch & Poster Viewing PLENARY SESSION 2/Debate Impact of the Environment on HAI the evidence Antimicrobial Stewardship Progress made in Africa - Workshops IPC Education in Africa An exponential rise in knowledge transfer Joost Hopman (Netherlands) Getachew Balay Kassa (Ethiopia) Linus Ndegwa (Kenya) Ephantus Kabiru (Kenya) Sade Ogunsola (Nigeria) 14h00 16h00 All Presentations Latest evidence for the built environment Joost Hopman (Netherlands) Wiping for enhanced decontamination of environmental surfaces: Evidence for effective pathogen reductions from field-relevant assessments - Syed Sattar (Canada) Cleaning methodologies- what works and what does not? - Anna Maruta (Zimbabwe/ Sierra Leone) How clean is your room- measuring outcomes - Marina Aucamp (South Africa) The AMR platform in Africa- a overview of provisions and activities - (TBC) The Global AMR Platform with a focus on Africa- Progress and Challenges Maha Talaat (Egypt) Surveillance in LMICS- how far along are we -- Linus Ndegwa (Kenya) Moving AMS onto the national agenda- a tale from South Africa - Kim Faure (South Africa) Africa CDC: How We Can Advance Infection Prevention and Control in Africa." - Jay Varma (Ethiopia) Group-specific Health Education: Lesson for Medical Training Institutions Ephantus Kabiru (Kenya) Unlocking Expert Knowledge to Bring Best Practices to One Billion People by 2025 Oliver Bogler (USA) ICAN Virtual Platform (ICAN_VL) an example of rapid dissemination of knowledge - Andy Bulabula (DRC) Link nurses discussing the various possibilities - Alethea Mashambe (Zimbabwe)

4 16h00 16h30 Refreshments Exhibition Area

5 MONDAY 09 JULY - Continues Free Paper Session Free Paper Session Free Paper Session Abimbola Sowande (Nigeria) Awa Ndir (Senegal) Angela Dramowski (South Africa) 16h30 17h30 All Presentations 17h30 18h30 18h30 19h30 20h00 ICAN AGM ADVISORY BOARD MEETING FACULTY DINNER FREE EVENING FOR DELEGATES

6 TUESDAY 10 JULY 07h00 08h15 Breakfast Symposium - Added value meets patient safety. Rethinking customer partnership - Mihaela Nica (Dubai) Venue: TBC : Linus Ndegwa 08h30 09h15 Keynote: Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections in low and middle income countries the why and the how Walter Zingg (Switzerland) Free Paper Session Free Paper Session Free Paper Session Awa Ndir (Senegal) Andy Bulabula (DRC) Anna Maruta (Sierra Leone) 09h15-10h00 10h00-10h30 Refreshments & Poster Viewing

7 TUESDAY 10 JULY - Continues PLENARY SESSION 3 IPC in Tented Communities & Displaced persons IPC WASH plans for Africa The Appropriate use of Disinfectants Mercedes Tatay (Geneva) Val Robertson (Zimbabwe) Nkwan Jacob Gobte (Cameroon) Margaret Montgomery (Switzerland) Syed Sattar (Canada) Shaheen Mehtar (South Africa) Minimum standards for IPC in displaced communities - Joost Hopman (Netherlands) Implementing WaSH programme in Africaexample from Tanzania - Hamisi Malebo (Tanzania) Recent advances in technologies for disinfection of environmental surfaces: A critical analysis - Syed Sattar (Canada) 10h30 12h3O All Presentations In humanitarian settings, IPC and outbreak response during the emergency phase Mercedes Tatay (Geneva) The role of WASH in IPC in Health Care Settings Ibrahim Kabole (Tanzania) Delivering IPC to maternity units without WASH- is it possible? Angeline Chiotcha (Malawi) Infrastructure support for IPC - an engineering perspective Francois Bester (South Africa) Wipes vs fogging- what is applicable in LMICS? Yolanda van Zyl (South Africa) Cross resistance between chemicals and antimicrobial agents Shaheen Mehtar (South Africa) Violence against women, the consequences of displacement - Tina Amisi (DRC) WHO WASH guidance- is it applicable to LMICs - Margaret Montgomery (Geneva) A model for the sensible use of disinfectants in LMIC - Briette Du Toit (South Africa) Venue: TBC Chair Shaheen Mehtar 12h State of the Art lecture: Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance (Global-PPS) - Ann Versporten (Belgium) 13h00 14h00 Lunch Exhibition Area

8 TUESDAY 10 JULY Continues PLENARY SESSION 4 Strengthening Health Systems and IPC- Do guidelines work? Blood Borne Viruses- putting Hepatitis into perspective Hand Hygiene Workshop - Showcasing Africa Prof Val Robertson (Zimbabwe) Jay Varma (Ethiopia) Alaa Hashish (Egypt) Linus Ndegwa (Kenya) Didier Pittet (Geneva) Nkwan Jacob Gobte (Cameroon) 14h00 16h00 All Presentations How does one put health systems in place with limited resources - Molla Godif (Ethiopia) Strengthening the IPC component- stand alone or integrated - Celestino Dhege (Zimbabwe) What is required to deliver a good IPC programme with low resources Christiana Conteh (Sierra Leone) Core Interventions for HBV and HCV elimination; focusing on Africa - Alaa Hashish (Egypt) Hepatitis C - Amy Kolwaite (USA) Topic?? HIV and substrains- why have we not contained HIV in Africa Wolfgang Preiser (South Africa) Preventative measures towards reducing the spread of BBV in Healthcare facilities? Jack Meintjes (South Africa) Hand hygiene implementation in Africa Cameroon programme in local production of ABHR- Nkwan Jacob Gobte (Cameroon) Tanzania report on water quality for hand hygiene- Hamisi Malebo (Tanzania) Abstracts from African on hand hygiene Discussion Hand hygiene talk (title TBC) - Prof D Pittet, (Switzerland) Didier Pittet Hand Hygiene Award Ceremony (Shaheen Mehtar) 16h00 16h30 Refreshments Exhibition Area

9 TUESDAY 10 JULY Continues PLENARY SESSION 5 16h30 18h30 All Presentations Free Paper Session or short workshops ICAN working groups on surveillance Advancing SSI prevention from recommendations to change of practices: the launch of a new WHO strategy Benedetta Allegranzi Sade Ogunsola WHO session on SSI surveillance & prevention (2hrs session) Presentation 1 How do you prioritize the SSI prevention recommendations in your local context? (B. Allegranzi 20 min) Presentation 2 Feasible approaches for SSI surveillance in settings with limited resources (Speaker from CDC, TBD, 20 min) Presentation 3 New WHO implementation package for SSI prevention (C. Kilpatrick, 30 min) Plenary discussion: 30 min Launch of the new WHO platform for SSI prevention with champions pledges (20 min) Global PPS & AMR surveillance in Africa find the new chair Shaheen Mehtar (South Africa) Introduction (overview of the session, goals, benefits, etc.) Prof S Mehtar Global PPS results Dr Ann Versporten 20 minutes + 10 minutes Local PPS results: Dr Aalaa Afdal from Egypt. 10 minutes + 5 minutes (TBC) Dr Oyin Oduyebo from Nigeria. 10 minutes + 5 minutes (TBC) Dr Heather Finlayson from South Africa. 10 minutes + 5 minutes (TBC) Prof Mamadou Saliou SOW, Guinea. 10 minutes + 5 minutes (TBC) Global-PPS tool to optimize antibiotic prescribing practices in African hospitals (at local and national level). 20 minutes + 10 minutes Dr Olga Perovic 20 minutes + 10 minutes (TBC) 18h30 19h30 19h30 Dinner Symposium Celebration Dinner Theme - Africa on the Catwalk

10 WEDNESDAY 11 JULY Venue: TBC 09h00 09h45 Keynote: Implementing an Antimicrobial Stewardship Programme in LMICs? - Marc Mendelson (South Africa) Chair: Val Robertson Free Paper Session Free Paper Session Free Paper Session Andy Bulabula Nkwan Jacob Gobte Bimbo Sowande 09h45 10h00 10h00-10h30 Refreshments & Poster Viewing

11 WEDNESDAY 11 JULY - continues PLENARY SESSION 6 Surgery in Africa and ways of complying with guidelines Outbreaks in Africa. A progress report on IPC effective measures Implementation of Core Components in Africa - Pitfalls and Solutions Joe Solomkin (USA) Awa Ndir (Senegal) Ben Parks (USA) Jean Paul Ngandu (Namibia) Benedetta Allegranzi (Switzerland) Anna Maruta (Zimbabwe/Sierra Leone) The recent WHO SSI guidelines- implications for Africa - Joe Solomkin (USA) The bigger picture on outbreaks Ben Parks (USA) The core components Benedetta Allegranzi (Switzerland) 10:30-12:30 Osteomyelitis a neglected disease Paul Budema (DRC) Surgical sepsis in maternity- impact of lack of infrastructure Awa Ndir (Senegal) IPC risk factors in an LMIC tertiary care burns unit - Magda Mocke (South Africa) Challenges and Interventions for Containing Plague in Madagascar - Jean Paul Ngandu (Namibia) Integration WASH in Cholera elimination strategies - Ibrahim Kabole (Tanzania) The impact of core components on Africa- Nino Dal Dayanghirang (WHO AFRO) Applying Core components at country level - Val Robertson(Zimbabwe) Evaluating Core Component implementation in low resource settings- Anna Maruta (Zimbabwe/ Sierra Leone) Venue: 12h Venue: TBC State of the Art lecture: Yves Chartier Memorial Lecture - Margaret Montgomery (Geneva) Chair Shaheen Mehtar 13h00 14h00 Lunch Exhibition Area

12 WEDNESDAY 11 JULY Continues PLENARY SESSION 7 Healthcare Waste Management- why are we not succeeding? Climate Change, Infectious Disease and Vector Borne Diseases One Health, links between humans and animals Babacar Ndoye (Senegal) Molly Patrick (USA) Katcho Karume (DRC) Sade Ogunsola (Nigeria) Linus Ndegwa (Kenya) 14h00 16:00 The current situation on healthcare waste management in Africa - what are the prospects? - Babacar Ndoye (Senegal) New technologies for Healthcare waste management Francois Bester (South Africa) Planning for a successful healthcare waste management system: the evidence base - Ruth Stringer (UK) Effective, low-cost healthcare waste treatment technologies for Africa: Making progress in post-ebola Sierra Leone Molly Patrick (USA) The impact of climate change and food security on infectious disease - Katcho Karume (DRC) Malaria and climate change in the town of Kindu, Maniema Province, D.R.Congo : past and present Bulabula Ali (DRC) Zika virus in Africa - Sade Ogunsola (Nigeria) Lassa Fever Kevin Babila Ousman (Nigeria) Antimicrobial resistance fueled by the food chain. A dilemma? - Michael Tapper (USA) Antimicrobials in the veterinary worldpiggeries as an example Peter Evans (South Africa) Judicious use of antibiotics in humans to prevent antimicrobial resistance: the clinician s perspective - Leonardo Pagani (Italy) Olga Perovic (South Africa) Title TBC Venue CLOSING CEREMONY Best Paper and Best Poster presentation 16h15 17h00 Handover of Ribbon of Office Professor Shaheen Mehtar to Professor Sade Ogunsola Refreshments & Presentations 17h00 Congress Closes

13 Collaborative AMR workshop between ICAN/ BSAC Delivering Education and training on antimicrobial Stewardship: global and African challenges and solutions THURSDAY 12 JULY Provisional as at 21 May h00 08h30 SESSION 1 08h30 08h40 08h40 09h10 09h10-09h40 09h40-10h10 10h10-10h30 10h10-10h40 10h40-11h10 11h10 11h40 12h10 12h50-13h00 13h00-14h00 SESSION 2 14h00-16h00 16h00 Registration and Refreshments Getting the AMR/AMS message across in Africa? Introduction to session - Professor Dilip Nathwani (BSAC) Welcome - Prof Shaheen Mehtar (ICAN & SUN) WHO model recommendations for AMS and IPC education and training competency - Prof Marc Mendelson (ISID) Innovative global models for delivering education in AMS- including resources available - Prof Dilip Nathwani (BSAC) Current AMS and educational activity for AMS in Africa- Dr Andre Bulabula (SUN & ICAN) The online AMS course from UCT? The first Massive Open on-line course [MOOC] for AMS in Africa - Prof Oyinlola O. Oduyebo (LUTH & ICAN) Refreshments Case Study 1 - AMS training in the hospital- good practice example (SUN) Case Study 2 - AMS training for communities opportunities and good example Case Study 3 - How can AMS and IPC WASH training be delivered in the hospital - Dr Angela Dramowski (ICAN & SUN) Conclusions and key messages - Prof Dilip Nathwani (BSAC) Lunch AMR Surveillance- point prevalence surveys (supported by an unconditional educational grant from BioMerieux) Global Point Prevalence outcomes for Africa - Dr Anne Versporten (Global PPS programme, Belgium) Close - Prof Shaheen Mehtar (ICAN & SUN)

14 FRIDAY 13 JULY O9h00 CDC /ICAN Meeting

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