International African Vaccine Conference Schedule
Overview
Thursday 8th November:
0800-1700: Pre-conference workshops
1800-2000: Official opening
2000-2200: Welcome reception
Friday 9th to Sunday 11th November:
0630-0830: Industry breakfast symposia (Friday and Saturday only)
0830-1730: Conference proceedings
1800-2000: Industry symposia (Friday and Saturday only)
Pre-conference workshops
8th November (click on workshop for outline)
7th African Rotavirus Symposium
Communication
Advocacy and Social Mobilisation
Influenza in Africa: Afriflu 2012
African Paediatric Infectious Diseases Society (AfPIDS) Foundation meeting
Evidenced-based approaches to immunization policies
Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Immunisation
National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGS) in Africa
Role of partially effective vaccines
Official Opening
Plenary sessions:
9th November (click on day for detailed program)
Plenary 1: Progress toward reaching our Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Plenary 2: Vaccine success stories
Plenary 3: Challenges in controlling infections
Plenary 4: Vaccine economics and financing
Plenary 5: Vaccine development and production in SS Africa
Plenary 6: Critical operational issues
Free papers
Plenary 7: Decade of Vaccines (DOV) discussion
Plenary 8: New vaccines
Plenary 9: Access
Plenary 10: Closure
Industry Symposia:
9th November (click on day for detailed program)
Breakfast symposium: Pfizer: PCV 9-valent Soweto Trial: Results and lessons learnt
Dinner symposium: Sanofi Pasteur: Securing current immunization while introducing new vaccines
Breakfast symposium: MSD: HPV diseases in Africa: role, potentialities and perspective of HPV vaccination
Dinner symposium: GSK: Impact of vaccination
