DAY 1-3rd Nov 8:00-17:30 Registration Jubilee Room 9-9:45 Keynote Address Chair: S Mehtar Disinfection of Environmental Surfaces Syed Sattar, Canada in Healthcare: Where, Why, How and with What? 10:00-10:30 Tea and Posters Room 1 10:30-12:00 New WHO guidelines Chair: S Mehtar New WHO global injection safety B Allegranzi WHO initiative; Revised CSSD Manual and guidelines N Damani UK Surgical Site Infections Joe Solomkin USA Room 2 10:30-12:00 Moving forward TB-IPC: where are we? Chair: V Robertson Managing a community based MDRTB programme in urban and rural environments Dr Sande Implementation of TB Infection Control Dr Max Weiss in Africa through TB CARE: five years after the WHO Policy Measuring Success in TBIC- How a Ms Ginny Lipke Dashboard can tell your story - Zimbabwe Holland USA Room 3 10:30-12:00 Environmental cleaning - Discussion workshop Systems to evaluate environmental cleanliness Multi modal cleaning strategy for beds what is required? Bedpan washer disinfection Chair: A Malambo and G Dube J Hopman Holland B Hakizimana Rwanda G van Knippenberg Holland Jubilee Room 10:30-12:00 Free Papers Chair: B Hakizama Jubilee Room 12:00-12:45 State of the Art Lecture Chair: F.T Ogunsola Critical infections in Africa P Manangazira Zimbabwe 13:00-14:00 LUNCH AND EXHIBITION - Room 1 14:00-15:30 Setting up decontamination services in Africa Chair: S Mehtar First ICAN SSD Survey- what do we have B Hakimizana Rwanda in Africa Minimum requirements for setting up D Trudeau Canada decontamination services Standards in decontamination P Newson UK
DAY 1-3rd Nov Room 2 14:00-15:30 IPC in maternal and child health Chair: R Kambarami and A Mashamba Impact of obstetrics on neonatal and C Mazimba Zambia maternal mortality MDRO in children A Ndir Senegal Neonatal units and IPC A Dramowski South Africa Room 3 14:00-15:30 Ebola in Africa- ICAN experience Chair: F. Ogunsola Managing an Ebola outbreak- practical aspects Experiences from the field in West Africa B Ndoye JP Ngandu JM Namahoro Senegal DRC Rwanda Jubilee Room 14:00-15:30 Occupational Health Chair: O Rasslan Improving injection safety for HCW A Sowande Nigeria Hepatitis surveillance TBA Occupationally Acquired Tuberculosis J Meintjes South Africa 15:30-16:00 TEA Room1 16:00-17:30 Free papers (6 papers) Chair: L Ndegwa Jubilee Room 16:00-17:30 How to series? Chair: A Maruta and JP Ngandu PPE or care bundles???? A Malambo, Zambia/ UK Looking after patient care articles Managing Laundry U Hogan, Ireland L Ummels, Holland Jubilee Room 17:30-18.30 ICAN AGM 19.00 SPEAKERS DINNER
4th Nov DAY 2 8:00-13:00 Registration Keynote Address Chair: B Ndoye 9.00-9:45 Hand Hygiene promotion a worldwide priority D Pittet WHO 10:00-10:30 Tea and Posters Room 1 10:30-12:00 Healthcare waste management Chair: E Krisiunas Green hospitals and health care waste R Stringer UK management in Africa: UNDP GEF projects, HCWH initiatives and information resources Careful what you wish for, types of technology E Krisiunas USA Green care is safer care Best practices in HCWM, a sound way to involve African health systems in fighting environment pollution: Example from Senegal O Rasslan Egypt B Ndoye Senegal Room 2 10:30-12:00 Multidrug resistant Gram Negative Bacteria Chair: A Voss and D Vuragu Detecting CRE- what does one need to do H Grundmann Holland Managing CRE in the clinic arena G Hara Argentina The essentials of IPC for CRE N Damani UK Room 3 10:30-12:00 Surveillance Session Chair: V Robertson Health Systems arrangements for surveillance C Wiysonge, Cameroon in Africa MDR in Adults surveillance A Ndir Senegal Setting up HAI surveillance in Rwanda J Namahoro Rwanda Jubilee Room 10:30-12:00 Free papers (6 paper) Chair: L Ndegwa Jubilee Room 12:00-12:45 State of the Art Lecture Chair: F. Ogunsola Culture or PCR- what is better for Africa? P Mason Zimbabwe 13:00-14:00 LUNCH AND EXHIBITION Room 1 14:00-15:30 Seminar: Surgical Site Infections Chair: S. Mehtar and J Solomkin Usefulness and challenges of SSI surveillance in settings with limited resources: proposals for feasible approaches A. Aiken UK The burden of C-section infections in sub- Saharan Africa: a view from a systematic review Essential best practices for the prevention of SSI in developing countries: time for implementation PANEL DISCUSSION A. Wanyoro Kenya B.Allegranzi WHO
4th Nov DAY 2 Room 2 14:00-15:30 Antimicrobial stewardship in critical areas Chair: R Ndlovu and G Hara Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis- how, when and why. D Muchuweti Zimbabwe Strengthening laboratory services R Gunturu Kenya Surveillance of AR Stefania Stefani Italy Resistance in Central Africa Erika Vlieghe Belgium Room 3 14:00-15:30 How to... series Chair: O Rasslan Collect relevant IPC data H Grundmann Netherlands Writing scientific papers in IPC A Voss Netherlands How to do a policy J Hightower WHO Jubilee Room 14:00-15:30 15:30-16:00 Tea Free Paper Session (6 papers Chair: A Maruta Room 1 16.00-17.30 Hand Hygiene in Africa Chair: M Abdel Nasser Making Africa Orange - ICAN hand hygiene campaign Evaluating and auditing hand hygiene Influence of hand hygiene on IPC in Kenya B Ndoye Senegal J Hightower WHO L Ndegwa Kenya Room 2 16.00-17.30 Decontamination of medical devices Chair: JP Ngandu and P Chinoputsa The challenges- A Zimbabwean experience A Maruta Zimbabwe Decontamination of dental equipment A Malambo Zambia/UK The problem of water in the decontamination of endoscopes T Bradley UK Room 3 16.00-17.30 Strategies for IPC training in low and middlecountries Chair: C Chasokela V Robertson Competencies for IPC Dedicated staff in low R Chandrakant, USA and middle income countries and how to achieve them What does Africa need in IPC training & S Mehtar South Africa capacity building A national IPC training strategy in Zimbabwe- E Gomo Zimbabwe rewards and challenges PANEL DISCUSSION Jubilee Room 16.00-17.30 Free Papers (6 papers) Chair: A Ndir 19.00 CONFERENCE DINNER
5 th Nov DAY 3 Jubilee Room 9.00-9:45 Keynote Address Chair: O.Rasslan Mind the gap: 40 years of childhood vaccination programmes in Africa" C Wiysonge Cameroon 10:00-10:30 Tea and Posters Room 1 10:30-12:00 IPC in the built environment Chair: M Abel Nasser Ventilation/ patient flow using Burns Unit as P Hoffman UK an example Design of endoscope decontamination facilities T Bradley UK IPC checklist for the revitalization A Maruta/J H Room 2 10:30-12:00 Collaboration between ICAN & WHO (GOARN) for Ebola Handle shortages in PPE in Ebola Involving the community in containing the outbreak- an essential step towards containment Lessons learnt from the Ebola outbreak Chair: A Sowande JP Ngandu, DRC/ Namibia S Mehtar SA TBA Room 3 10:30-12:00 Water safety where are we and where do we want to get to? Dealing with water shortages Case studies: The challenges of supplying safe water 1. Rural Hospital: Safe Water storage - and typhoid 2. Central Hospital: Checking the stored water Panel Discussion on water shortages Chair: A Malambo N Damani UK A Mashamba Zimbabwe B. Sithole Zimbabwe Jubilee Room 10:30-12:00 Common Viral infections in Africa Chair: A Ndir Influenza L Ndegwa Kenya Hepatitis B & C transmission and prevention O Rasslan Egypt Rotavirus in paediatrics A Dramowski South Africa Jubilee Room 12:00-12:45 Yves Chartier Memorial Chair: S Mehtar My view on environmental cleaning Prof. Andreas Voss Holland 13:00-14:00 LUNCH AND EXHIBITION
5 th Nov DAY 3 Room 1 HIV, opportunistic infections and parasites Chair: R Gunturu B Hakizimana Cryptosporidiosis, Cyclosporiasis and A Bulabula DRC 14:00-15:30 Isosporiasis, three major infections in HIV Positive Patients, in Bukavu, D.R.Congo Opportunistic fungal infections associated V Robertson Zimbabwe with HIV infection - the current challenges Schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminths in Zimbabwe: findings on school based water and sanitation coverage N Midzi Zimbabwe Room 2 14:00-15:30 IPC interventions in critical care to reduce Chair: F.T Ogunsola sepsis Dialysis M Abdel Nasser Egypt IPC in Oncology Jenny Mayfield- USA ICU F T Ogunsola Nigeria Jubilee Room 14:00-16:00 HAI ISC Symposium Chair: G Hara & A Sowande Treating and Controlling MRSA I Gould ISC UK VRE outbreaks and screening for VRE A Voss Holland MSSA outbreak in a neonatal unit J Hopman, Holland Antibiotic Resistance in West Africa Pierre Tattevin France Jubilee Room 16:00-16.30 Tea and Best Paper and Best poster presentation awards Room 1 17.00-19.00 Special meeting: SSI Surveillance Working Group Meeting Chair: J Solomkin