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This conference is intended for all who are interested in state of the art clinical practice, research, and education, in the field of travel and migration medicine. The target audience includes physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and students involved in primary care, occupational, migrant and public health, infectious disease, emergency and wilderness medicine. Also, it is designed to meet the needs of the travel media and industry as well as manufacturers of travel health-related products, drugs and vaccines.
The invited topics listed below give an idea of the scope of the meeting but will evolve up to the time of the meeting to include the broadest range of the most timely and topical travel health issues. Once again, we expect that the cornerstone of any scientific meeting such as this to be the submitted original research abstracts (closed) which will feature the latest clinical science and therapeutic trials.
- Medicine at the Extremes
- Epidemic and Pandemic Viral Diseases
- XX Goes Global: Women and Adventure Travel
- Migration and the Big 3 (HIV, TB and Malaria)
- Vaccines: Closer than the Horizon
- Travel, Blood & Sex
- Practice Issues
- Risk and Reduction
- Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR)
- Rabies Update
- Skin Disorders
- Arthopod Borne Disease - The Insects View
- Artemisinins in Malaria
- When Nature Bites Back
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This conference is intended
for all who are interested in the field of travel and
migration medicine. The target audience includes physicians,
nurses, pharmacists, and allied professionals as well
as the travel media and industry.
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