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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Garance UPHAM</b> <span dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:fannie.upham@gmail.com">fannie.upham@gmail.com</a></span><br><br><br><i><u>The only world conference on medicines without the pharmaceutical industry.....(according to WHO Rational Drug Use Staff). An important conference for PHM <br>
</u></i><br><br>REMINDER: Register on website and submit abstracts for ICIUM 2011<br><br>Informed Strategies, Effective Policies, Lasting Solutions April 10-14th 2011 Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria<br><br>Attendance at ICIUM 2011 will be limited to about 500 participants. Preference for limited spaces will be given to those with accepted abstracts and key policy makers.<br>
<br>The focus of ICIUM 2011 is on the evaluation of impact of interventions and policies on use of medicines. All submissions should have use of medicines as their central issue. The highest rated abstracts will:<br><br>-- Describe the effects of an intervention or a policy change on use of medicines in a low- or middle-income country; or<br>
<br>-- Examine methods for studying patterns or determinants of drug use in low- or middle-income countries.<br><br><br><br>Priority will be given to the following key focus and topic areas:<br><br><br><br>1. Access to Medicines: public and private sector, production, intellectual property, generics, price negotiation, access to new and high-cost medicines, and civil society issues related to access to medicines.<br>
<br>2. Medicines Policy, regulation, governance: guidelines, essential medicines lists, health reform, drug quality, promotion, and transparency.<br><br>3. Economics, financing, insurance systems: cost, affordability, incentives, medicines coverage 4. Child health: IMCI and pediatric medicines.<br>
<br>5. Chronic care: diabetes, hypertension, mental health, and adherence.<br><br>6. HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis: global drug programs, adherence, retention, supply chain management, pharmacovigilance, and adverse event monitoring, as they relate to access and use of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis therapies in resource-limited settings 7. Malaria: chemotherapy and chemoprevention of malaria 8. Drug resistance: surveillance, containment strategies, and drug development.<br>
<br><br><br>Descriptive studies will only be considered if they present useful new methodologies. Research from high income countries may be submitted if the methods or findings are particularly relevant.<br><br><br><br>
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 7 December 2010. Greater topic detail and guidelines for abstracts can be found at <a href="http://www.icium2011.org/" target="_blank">www.icium2011.org</a><<a href="http://www.icium2011.org/" target="_blank">http://www.icium2011.org</a>>.<br>
<br><br><br>For the ICIUM 2011 International Organizing Committee<br><br>Keith Johnson<br><br>Center for Pharmaceutical Management<br><br>Management Sciences for Health </div><br>