Programme
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PROGRAMME

Day/time

Session

Sunday

18th May

 
  Registration
  Keynote address (1): HIV and Child Health in Africa – Research and the future

Monday

19th May

 
  Keynote address (2): To be announced
  Symposium 1. Micronutrients: the past, the present and the future
Workshops A
  • Probiotics. Earning their place in paediatric medicine
  • LBW and IUGR. Nutrition interventions and long term health outcomes
  • Nutrition in Emergency situations
  Symposium 2. Promoting and protecting breastfeeding in the era of HIV
  Optional workshop – The ethics of sponsorship

Tuesday

20th May

 
  Keynote address (3): Infant feeding and care practices
  Symposium 3. HIV + diarrhoeal diseases
  Workshops B
  • The changing face of liver disease in childhood – vaccines and transplants
  • Looking at gut mucosa – diagnostic investigations in developing countries
  • Infant feeding and care practices
  Symposium 4. Growth failure after 6 months

Wednesday

21st May

 
  Keynote 4 - The science of Rotavirus vaccine
  Symposium 5. IMCI – Getting evidence-based knowledge into practice
  Workshops C
  • Rotavirus – Africa, HIV and the rest of the world
  • Nutrition and social change – childhood obesity
  • Parasites and child health
 

 

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Last modified: August 21, 2003