The President’s Malaria Initiative looks forward to participating in the 65th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Atlanta. See below for a list of PMI-supported symposia, scientific sessions, and poster presentations.

During a special symposium on November 14 at 1:45 – A Decade of U.S. Government Commitment to Combatting Malaria and Saving Lives: The President’s Malaria Initiative, 2006-2015 – PMI leadership will discuss the Initiative’s strategic vision and implementation approach and National Malaria Control Program directors from Tanzania and Senegal will describe their partnerships with PMI.

Also, PMI and partners are hosting a TropMed Fireside Chat, during which experts in the malaria field discuss progress and challenges in the fight against malaria, the quest for new tools, and the pathway to elimination. Join us on Monday, November 14 from 12-1:30PM: Log on to Twitter and search for the hashtag #TropMedChat. You’ll then be able to participate in the conversation and pose questions to experts in the “hot seat!”

  • Symposium Sessions
  • Scientific Sessions
  • Poster Sessions

Symposium Sessions

Presentation Title Day Start Time End Time Location
Accelerate to Equal: Engaging Women in Vector Control 14-Nov 12:15pm 1:30pm Marriott – Marquis A
Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention at Scale: Evidence from Eight Countries 14-Nov 1:45pm 3:30pm Marriott – Marquis A
A Decade of U.S. Government Commitment to Combatting Malaria and Saving Lives: The President’s Malaria Initiative, 2006-2015 14-Nov 1:45pm 3:30pm Marriott – Atrium A
Global Call to Action to Increase Coverage of Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Pregnancy: Progress and Lessons Learned 15-Nov 1:45pm 3:30pm Marriott – Marquis D
Malaria Economics Research Priorities: Are We Supporting Program Scale Up Effectively? 15-Nov 4:00pm 5:45pm Marriott – Imperial Room B
Support and Strategies for IPTp Scale-up Global Call to Action to Increase Coverage of Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Pregnancy: Progress and Lessons Learned 15-Nov 1:45pm 2:05pm Marriott – Marquis D
Malaria Pre-Elimination: Ensuring Correct Care of Reproductive Age Women 16-Nov 1:45pm 3:30pm Marriott – Room A706/A707
Towards Regional Eradication of Malaria in Mesoamerica 17-Nov 8:00am 9:45am Marriott – Marquis C

 

Scientific Sessions

Presentation Title Day Start Time End Time Location
Evaluate mosquito nets faster and cheaper: results for Public Health interest 14-Nov 8:00am 8:15am Marriott – Room A703/A704
Facility-based enhanced malaria surveillance to measure vector-control intervention impact in western Kenya, 2012–2015 14-Nov 8:30am 8:45am Marriott – Marquis C
Impact of new combination LLINs on entomological measures of malaria transmission in Mali 14-Nov 10:15am 10:30pm Marriott – Room M103/M104/M105
Malaria, malnutrition, and adverse birth outcomes among pregnant women: a pooled analysis 14-Nov 9:30am 9:45am Marriott – Marquis D
Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention at scale: evidence from eight countries  14-Nov 1:45pm 3:30pm Marriott – Marquis A
Subpatent malaria infection is not associated with poor birth outcomes in Kenyan women receiving intermittent screening and treatment or intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy 14-Nov 9:00am 9:15am Marriott – Marquis C
Assessing the potential toxicity hazard to aquatic life from immersion of insecticide-treated mosquito nets during fishing and washing 16-Nov 8:15am 8:30am Marriott – Room A706/A707
Missed opportunities for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy for malaria: Evidence from the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, 2014 16-Nov 5:00pm 5:15pm Marriott – Imperial A
Pharmacokinetics and accumulation of piperaquine when used for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) 16-Nov 11:15am 11:30pm Marriott – Room A703/A704
Quality of case management of pneumonia and diarrhea in children aged <5 Years: Results from a health facility survey in Southern Malawi in January-March 2015 16-Nov 9:00am 9:55am Marriott – Marquis C
The effect of text message reminders to health workers on quality of care for malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea in Malawi: a randomized controlled trial 16-Nov 2:00pm 2:15pm Marriott – Marquis A
Towards better surveillance: Assessing and building on routine systems to develop specialized surveillance platforms for elimination 16-Nov 4:00pm 5:45pm Marriott – Marquis C
Evaluating the impact of the national scale-up of malaria control interventions in Liberia from 2004 to 2013 16-Nov 8:00am 9:45am Marriott – Room A706/A707
Building a system of quality assured malaria case management in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 17-Nov 8:45am 9:00am Marriott – Room A706/A707
Malaria intervention assessment in four states of Nigeria: an innovative, comprehensive, mixed-methods evaluation 17-Nov 9:30am 9:45am Marriott – Room A706/A707
Improving the quality of malaria case management in public health facilities: the MalariaCare experience in Western Kenya 17-Nov 8:00am 9:45am Marriott – Room A706/A707

 

Poster Sessions

Presentation Title Day Start Time End Time Location
Active monitoring of pharmacovigilance at community level during the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention campaign in the health district, Kolda Senegal, 2015 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Estimating bednet demand in Tanzania using a discrete choice experiment 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Findings from a situational analysis for integrated community case management in rural health zones of Haut-Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Building capacity to accelerate IPTp uptake through the adoption of 2012 WHO IPTp guidance in Malawi 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Collaborative efforts to improve prevention of malaria in pregnancy in Burkina Faso through use of IPTp-SP 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Cost-effectiveness of malaria control measures: a cluster-randomized control trial of IRS and ITNs in Mozambique 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Determining the prevalence and geographic distribution of mixed function oxidases in Anopheles gambiae s.l. with pyrethroid resistance in relation to site selection for a trial of combination LLINs in Mali 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Documentation and reactive detection of malaria cases in a zone of pre-elimination from July to September 2015 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Early post-treatment level of HRP2 predicts recrudescence in Plasmodium falciparum infection 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Efficacy of three artemisinin-based combination therapies in Angolan children with Plasmodium falciparum Infection, 2015 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Impact of antimalarial interventions on malaria morbidly and mortality in hospitals from 2001-2015, Senegal 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Improving the quality of health facility data to monitor trends in malaria burden: Effectiveness of the Collaborative Improvement Approach 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Integration of Zimbabwe’s public health supply chain leads to improved efficiency while maintaining high product availability 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Inter-provincial differences in malaria case management practices in Angola: a cross-sectional health facility survey 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Reliability of rapid diagnostic tests to assess malaria trends in Madagascar through a sentinel fever surveillance network 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Rwanda towards malaria pre-elimination: active case investigation in a low endemic district 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Scaling-up and using routine malaria surveillance data to identify malaria hotspots and target malaria control interventions during and after the Ebola epidemic in Guinea 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
South Sudan emergency medicine fund getting malaria medicine to people in midst of conflict 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Spatial and temporal variations of malaria risk between 2013 and 2015 in Zanzibar: a pre-elimination setting 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Susceptibility status of malaria vectors to insecticides commonly used for malaria vector control in Tanzania 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
The effect of holes in long-lasting insecticidal nets on malaria: a case-control study in Malawi, 2013 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
The impact of indoor residual spraying on the density and parity rate of Anopheles gambiae s.l. in Oromia region – Ethiopia 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
The Improving Malaria Care (IMC) Project’s contribution to follow up a pilot to use rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) at the communitylevel in Burkina Faso 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Introduction of competency based selection criteria for WHO External Competency Assessment for Malaria Microscopy 14-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
A comparison of the effectiveness of behavior change communication (BCC) plus repair kits and BCC alone in promoting repair of long-lasting insecticidal nets in Benin 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Assessment of the use of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Health Facilities in Ghana 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Audit of malaria deaths reported in the Routine Malaria information System (RMIS) in 4 health departments, Benin, 2015   15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Cost analysis of an LLIN keep-up channel in Tanzania: the School Net Program 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Distribution and frequency of insecticide resistance in Anopheles gambiae s.l. population in Liberia 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Dry seasonal malaria transmission reduces the impact of seasonal indoor residual spraying in Atacora region in northern Benin 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Dynamics of entomological inoculation rates following indoor residual spraying in Mali 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Entomological indicators of malaria transmission after IRS was discontinued: findings from Savelugu Nanton District and its implications for malaria control in Ghana 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Evaluating the coverage and impact of a universal coverage bed net campaign in two districts in Nampula Province, Mozambique: a series of cross-sectional household surveys 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Health worker adherence to malaria case management guidelines at publicly funded outpatient health facilities in Southern Malawi, 2015 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Improving the quality of care for common childhood illnesses among patent and proprietary medicine vendors in Ebonyi State, Nigeria 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Improving quality of malaria rapid diagnostic testing and test adherence through quality assurance 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Improving quality of malaria case management in Malawi through targeted clinical mentoring 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Improving pregnancy outcomes: Alleviating stock-outs situation of sulfadoxine pyrimethamine in Bungoma, Kenya 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Intermittent preventive treatment continues to provide benefit to Malawian pregnant women 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Is Anopheles paludis a vector of malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo? 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Joint efforts, a key to success for the Malaria in Pregnancy Program in Luanda, Angola 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Lessons learned: Malaria case management training in Madagascar 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Malaria Epidemic — Uganda, 2015–2016 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Malaria microscopy competency in Liberia post Ebola outbreak 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Malaria upsurge following withdrawal of indoor residual spraying in Northern Uganda 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Monitoring and evaluation workshops: An approach to improve malaria information systems and data use to better inform program implementation 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Pre-service training institutions: an important contributor to scale up of high quality malaria case management services in Malawi 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Spatial and temporal variations of malaria risk between 2013 and 2015 in Zanzibar: a pre-elimination setting 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Using mobile money for quick, efficient distribution of mosquito nets to the last mile 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Using Outreach Training and Supportive Supervision (OTSS) results to monitor adherence to revised malaria treatment guidelines in the eastern region of Ghana 15-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Design, monitoring, and implementation of the third and fourth rounds of School Net Distribution to maintain universal access to long-lasting insecticidal nets in Southern Tanzania 16-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Early warning system for country level stock outs of malaria medicines and diagnostics 16-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine for treatment of uncomplicated malaria in areas with different malaria transmission intensity in mainland Tanzania 16-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Impact evaluation after 3 years of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention implementation by mass campaigns in southern Senegal 16-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Impact of the application of the new guidelines of malaria case management in Senegal 16-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Knock down resistance (kdr) gene in Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae that survived the diagnostic concentration of pyrethroids and DDT in two eco-epidemiological zones (Guinea Savannah and Coastal Mangrove) of Nigeria 16-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Preliminary results of the 3rd Malaria Indicator Survey in Ethiopia (MIS 2015) 16-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Process evaluation of continuous ITN distribution in Zanzibar 16-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Rapid assessment of a nationwide long lasting insecticidal (mosquito) nets distribution campaign in Benin 16-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Surveillance for sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) resistant malaria parasites in the Lake and Southern Zones, Tanzania using pooling and next-generation sequencing 16-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
The formula “average plus two standard deviations” applied to the follow-up of the malaria epidemic warning threshold of through 24 sites sentinels of surveillance in Senegal 16-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
The impact of revised Health Management Information System (HMIS) reporting forms on the quality of malaria surveillance data in Uganda: an interrupted time series analysis 16-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon
Trends in socioeconomic-related health inequality in rural western Kenya: data from repeated household malaria surveys 2006–2013 16-Nov 12:00pm 1:45pm Hilton – Grand Ballroom and Grand Salon