The conference is being hosted by Malawi College of Medicine and would be held at Blantyre, Malawi from the 12th-16th August 2009. There will be 3-full days of symposia, plenaries, workshops and debates on a variety of topics including HIV, malnutrition and paediatric disease, malnutrition and enteric disease, the Lancet Undernutrition series, review of 75 […]
The 6th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease has been announced. The International Society for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) is delighted to invite you to attend the 6th International Congress on Developmental Origins of Health & Disease, to be held at the Sheraton Hotel Convention Centre in Santiago, […]
The 19th International Congress of Nutrition themed Nutrition Security for all would take place in BITEC, Bangkok Thailand from 4-9 October 2009 The event hopes to bring together over 3000 nutrition scientists, practitioners and researchers from all over the world and will provide the highest quality scientific programme featuring internationally recognised speakers and experts in […]
An African-based working group now exists to examine the impact of the HIV virus on severely malnourished children. In Southern and Eastern Africa the Blantyre Working Group on the management of severely malnourished HIV-infected children was established in January 2007. This links experts in Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and South Africa. The group advocate […]
An electronic version of the WHO training course on the inpatient management of severe acute malnutrition has been developed by private company Microlink PC UK with the University of Southampton. The course is directed at doctors and senior health professionals and has been formally tested by paediatricians and nutritionists with experience in tropical paediatrics and […]
Guidance on inpatient antibiotic treatment for severely malnourished children in areas of high HIV prevalence has been changed. It is recommended that places with high HIV prevalence adapt hospital-based practices accordingly. WHO, UNICEF and the IMTF held a technical review committee meeting in Geneva 28th-29th June 2007. The purpose of the meeting was to consider […]