Combating Pandemics: Today & Tomorrow
The theme of this year’s Union World Conference was “Combating Pandemics:
Today & Tomorrow”. Because whether it is COVID-19 or TB, lung health pandemics have a grip on humanity, clarifying inequalities as well as our connectedness. As we prepare for future pandemics, we can’t lose sight of the current ones. And we must continue to stand up for those who are most vulnerable.
In a special interview that was regularly aired during the Union Conference, Mustapha Gidado, executive director of KNCV, called upon all TB stakeholders to do the following:
- “Rethink and repackage our advocacy strategy on all levels to regain the political commitment to end TB by 2030. It should be as part of pandemic prevention and preparedness and also the overall health security agenda”
- “Optimize the current tools globally, by ensuring that TB is seen from the lens of human rights where an infected person should demand for high quality services”
- “Ensure better use of quality data for TB planning on all levels.
“Investing in TB,” said Gidado, “is an investment in prevention and preparedness for pandemics globally.”
Top 10 abstracts
The Union also made a top 10 of the highest scoring abstracts presented during the conference. We are very proud the mention that KNCV has worked on 3 of those top 10 abstracts, namely:
- Digital adherence monitoring of TB treatment in Ukraine: analysis of adherence levels and patient-provider communication before and during the war in Ukraine
- Facilitating and inhibiting factors for the introduction of digital adherence tools for TB care: analysis of multi-country, cluster randomised trial data
- A simple one-step stool processing method to diagnose TB in children: data from general hospitals in Southern Ethiopia
To learn more about digital adherence technology for TB treatment, please visit www.digitaladherence.org (the ASCENT project) and www.tbdigitaladherence.org (the Global DAT Task Force). For more information about the simple one-step stool method, please click here.
Thank you to the organization & everyone involved
With great joy we look back at 4 days of shared passion for global health and the fight against suffering caused by infectious lung diseases like tuberculosis. We like to thank everyone involved in the Union World Conference for sharing their expertise, and of course The Union for letting us share ours.
Programme: Tuesday, 8 November 2022
11:00 – 12:20 Channel 3
Oral abstract session: OA-01 Digital innovations to improve TB control
Rachel Powers: Chair
Bethrand Odume: Delft Light Backpack (DLB) portable digital X-ray for pre-diagnostic TB screening: results from a scale-up intervention in Nigeria
Bethrand Odume: Portable digital X-ray-driven community active case-finding for TB using a virtual radiologist-linkage platform in Nigeria
11:20 – 12:20 Channel 4
Oral abstract session: OA-02 Strengthening national-and global policies: lessons learnt
Sani Usemi: Can effective and sustained advocacy to government increase domestic funding for TB control? Experience from Nigeria
12:30 – 13:50 Channel 1
Symposium: SP-04 Stool-based diagnostics: a game-changer for hard-to-diagnose populations?
Petra de Haas: The Global Laboratory Initiative practical manual for stool testing using Xpert Ultra and lessons learned for implementation of stool testing in children and PLHIV.
12:30 – 13:50 Channel 2
Oral abstract session: OA-03 Management of DR-TB
Mansa Mbenga: Chair
12:30 – 13:50 Channel 3
Oral abstract session: OA-04 Integrated care – how it helps in improving access
Aminu Babayi: The predictors of TB yield: improving efficiency of TB control by comparing various TB case-finding interventions in Nigeria
Top 10 scoring abstract! Natasha Deyanova: Digital adherence monitoring of TB treatment in Ukraine: analysis of adherence levels and patient-provider communication before and during the war in Ukraine
12:30 – 13:50 Channel 4
Oral abstract session: OA-05 Improvements in access to care
Eze Chukwu: Finding missing TB cases through clinical diagnosis using XMAP in Northern Cross River State, Nigeria
Michael Umoren: Deployment of multiple diagnostic technologies for TB diagnosis: a gap-bridging strategy to case finding
15:00 – 16:20 Channel 1
Oral abstract session: OA-06 How could we improve contact investigation?
Chinenye Igwetu: Impacts of stool-based testing on childhood TB case notification in Kano State, northwestern Nigeria
15:00 – 16:20 Channel 2
Oral abstract session: OA-07 Cost and cost-effectiveness of TB interventions
Jason Alacapa: Cost-utility analysis of artificial intelligence-powered, intensified case screening and finding strategies in two urban centres in Mega Manila, the Philippines
16:30 – 17:50 Channel 2
Symposium: SP-07 Large-scale implementation of short-course TB preventive treatment regimens: experiences from the field
Violet Chihota / IMPAACT4TB
Programme: Wednesday, 9 November 2022
11:00 – 12:20 Channel 2
Oral abstract session: OA-11 Expanding active case finding in vulnerable populations
Gift Lawrence: Expanding contact investigation using the spot to tent approach: the Plateau State experience in Nigeria
11:00 – 12:20 Channel 1
Oral abstract session: OA-12 Modelling the impact of TB control strategies
Andrew Mganga: Factors for medication adherence among adult TB patients using digital adherence technologies
Top 10 scoring abstract! Tanyaradzwa Dube: Facilitating and inhibiting factors for the introduction of digital adherence tools for TB care: analysis of multi-country, cluster randomised trial data
12:30 – 13:50 Community Connect Channel
Oral abstract session: OA-14 Prevalence of, risk factors for, mortality due to TB
Nera Kadiri-Eneh: Chair
Nera Kadiri-Eneh: Prevalence of pulmonary TB among prisons inmates in Port Harcourt Correctional Centre, Rivers State, Nigeria
12:30 – 13:50 Channel 3
Degu Dare: Chair
Kristian van Kalmthout: Digital Adherence Technologies in TB care: overview of the experience from five countries
Jason Alacapa: How digital adherence technologies helped mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on TB services in Philippines
15:00 – 16:20 Channel 2
Nkiru Nwokoye: Early experience of Nigeria in implementing Truenat in peripheral health care settings and in active case-finding activities
16:30 – 17:50 Community Connect Channel
Oral abstract session: OA-16 Implementation of TPT
Jhon Suhiharto: High completion rates of 3HP among household contacts despite COVID-19 in Indonesia
16:30 – 17:50 Channel 1
Oral abstract session: OA-17 Active case finding: Impact and Yield
Bethrand Odume: One-stop shop TB diagnostic package for community active case-finding: a pilot intervention during the 2022 World TB Day celebrations in Nigeria
16:30 – 17:50 Channel 3
Symposium: SP-18 What the pandemic taught us: TB programming during COVID-19 and beyond
Egwuma Efo: Chair
Egwuma Efo: User-experience-design & co-creation approaches to develop tailor made tools and approaches to facilitate evidence-based, country-led planning & decision making
Degu Dare: Using the People-Centred Framework for TB programming to plan our way out of the pandemic – introducing the PCF Knowledge Hub & toolkit
Programme: Thursday, 10 November 2022
11:00 – 12:20 Channel 1
Oral abstract session: OA-19 Application of the GeneXpert platform new developments
Golibe Ugochukwu: Improving uptake of stool-based Xpert testing for childhood TB diagnosis in Imo State, Nigeria
12:30 – 13:50 Channel 2
Oral abstract session: OA-21 Susceptibilty resistance
Top 10 scoring abstract! Yohannes Babo: A simple one-step stool processing method to diagnose TB in children: data from general hospitals in Southern Ethiopia
15:00 – 16:20 Channel 1
Symposium: SP-25 Airborne infection prevention and control: the key to preventing the next pandemic
Gidado Mustapha: Commodities supply & management for a successful IPC programme
16:30 – 17:50 Channel 1
Oral abstract session: OA-24 Person-centred care: how new technologies can support
Mansa Mbenga: Decentralisation of ECG monitoring using a mobile device (KardiaMobile-6L) for patients on drug-resistant TB treatment in an outpatient setting
18:15 – 19:15 Channel 2
Meet the expert session: MTE-07 WHO E-learning platform to accelerate uptake of guidelines and new tools
Kristin Kremer: Chair
18:15 – 19:15 Channel 3
Meet the expert session: MTE-08 The importance of nutrition support during TB treatment
Niesje Jansen: Chair
Programme: Friday, 11 November 2022
11:00 – 12:20 Channel 3
Oral abstract session: OA-28 Find and treat; the hurdles and how to overcome
Joseph Omame: Chair
Joseph Omame: Changing the narrative in public-private mix (PPM) case-finding: impact of intensified sensitisation and demand creation by PPM providers in Bauchi, Nigeria
15:00 – 16:20 Channel 1
Oral abstract session: OA-31 Community-centred, rights-based and gender responsive TB care
Rachel Powers: Chair
Onyinye Kene-Eneh: Success stories as an essential tool for TB awareness creation: a case study of KNCV TB Foundation Nigeria’s social media page
15:00 – 16:20 Channel 3
Degu Dare: Chair
16:30 – 17:50 Channel 4
Oral abstract session: OA-33 Child and host and community
Itoro Okon: Comparing early warning outbreak recognition system (EWORS) and non-EWORS-guided community TB active case-finding in Cross River State, Nigeria
Programme: E-posters
Integrated COVID-19 and TB services to help recover TB care and prevention services in the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a multi-country survey
KNCV representative: Ineke spruijt
Mental health among COVID-19 HCW
KNCV representative: Ineke Spruijt
The negative and positive predictive value of IGRA for development of TB disease among a TST positive population
KNCV representative: Caro Damarjanan
Feasibility and acceptability of smart pill box with differentiated response to support person-centred tuberculosis care: a multi-country study
KNCV representative: Amare Tadesse
The Simple One-Step (SOS) stool processing method for Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra is robust: results from an optimization study in Ethiopia
Presented by: Bazezew Yenew
Consecutive missed doses and temporal patterns of non-adherence among Tuberculosis patients: Findings from the ASCENT multi-country study
KNCV representative: Jason Alacapa
Digging for case enrolment determinants for Tuberculosis digital adherence technologies: A descriptive doer and non-doer analysis among healthcare workers in the Philippines
KNCV representative: Jason Alacapa
Efficacy, adherence, and safety of latent Tuberculosis infection treatments. Systematic review and Network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
KNCV representative: Dawit Getachew Asefa
Impact of COVID-19 on treatment outcomes of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia
KNCV representative: Emawayish Tesema
Use of health system strengthening approach improves national
KNCV representative: Nyasulu
The yield of chest x-ray based versus symptom-based TB screening among patients with diabetes mellitus in public health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
KNCV representative: Chaltu Muleta
GeneXpert devices module failure and underutilization: the major changes in Ethiopia GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay rollout: a retrospective study
KNCV representative: Endale Mengesha