The 1st International Post-Tuberculosis Symposium: Life after TB

April 2019

STIAS Institute, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Proceedings Report

Symposium Statistics

67 Participants

8 Workshops

6 Sessions

14 Speakers

The Global Steering Committee

• Brian Allwood, Stellenbosch University (Chair)
• Sumona Datta, Imperial College London and the University of Lima (in absentia)
• Carlton Evans, Imperial College London and the University of Lima (in absentia)
• Olena Ivanova, Tropical Institute Munich
• Rupert Jones, the University of Plymouth (in absentia)
• Florian Marx, Stellenbosch University
• Jamilah Meghji, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
• Kevin Mortimer, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
• Stellah Mpagama, Kibong’oto Infectious Diseases Hospital
• Andrea Rachow, Tropical Institute Munich
• Marieke van der Zalm, Stellenbosch University
• Sanne van Kampen, University of Plymouth

Meet the Delegates

Programme

Day 1: 22/07/2019

Session 1: Chair Brian Allwood & Kevin Mortimer

8.30 - 09.00

Welcome, Introductions and Expectations (Brian Allwood / Kevin Mortimer)

09.00 - 09.10

Message from Rector of Stellenbosch University (Wim de Villiers)

09.10 - 09.30

Opening Address (Eric Bateman)

09.30 - 09.50

Lecture #1: Patient perspectives (Ingrid Schoeman)

09.50 - 10.10

Lecture #2: Pulmonary TB outcomes (Andrea Rachow)

10.10 - 10.30

Lecture #3: Phenotyping in post-TB disease (Brian Allwood)

10.30 - 11.00

TEA

Session 2: Chair Jamilah Meghji & Stellah Mpagama

11.00 - 11.20

Lecture #4: Children after TB (Diane Gray)

11.20 - 11.40

Lecture #5: Socio-economic consequences & QALY (Denise Evans)

11.40 - 12.00

Lecture #6: Targeting TB control to former TB patients (Florian Marx)

12.00 - 13.00

GROUP PHOTOGRAPH & LUNCH

Workshops

13.00 - 15.00

Workshop 1: Lung complications after TB

(Brian Allwood / Jamilah Meghji)

Workshop 2: Former TB patients in the context of the End TB Strategy

(Florian Marx / Dalene von Delft / Sumona Datta)

Workshop 3: Socio-economic and psychological Impact

(Olena Ivanova / Denise Evans / Graeme Hoddinott)

Workshop 4: Paediatric complications of TB

(Marieke van der Zalm / Diane Gray)

?15.00 - 15.30

TEA

15.30 - 16.30

?Workshops 1-4 (continue)

16:30 - 17.30

?Plenary Workshop Feedback

?17.30

?Dinner for all delegates

Day 2: 23/07/2019

Session 3: Chair Sanne van Kampen & Florian Marx

08.30 - 08.40

Logistics Update

08.40 - 09.00

Lecture #7: Mechanisms of TB destruction (Naomi Walker)

09.00 - 09.20

Lecture #8: Host directed therapy to improve TB outcomes (Rob Wallis)

09.20 - 09.40

Lecture #9: Pulmonary rehabilitation (William Worodria)

09.40 - 10.00

Lecture #10: Therapies for treatment post TB (Stellah van Kampen)

10.00 - 10.20

Lecture #11: Malawian cohort (Jamilah Meghji)

10.20 - 11.00

TEA

Session 4: Chair Marieke van der Zalm & Andrea Rachow

11.00 - 11.20

Lecture #12: Advocacy for Post-TB disease (Kevin Mortimer)

11.20 - 11.40

Lecture #13: Diagnosing recurrent TB among former TB patients (Grant Theron)

11.40 - 12.00

Lecture #14: Mortality after TB (Mohammed Osman)

12.00 - 13.00

LUNCH

Workshops

13.00 - 15.00

Workshop 5: Pathogenesis /mechanisms of disease & prevention of damage

(Naomi Walker / Cari Stek / Rob Wallis)

?Workshop 6: Treatment & holistic management

(Sanne van Kampen / (Rupert Jones) / Stellah Mpagama)

?Workshop 7: Health systems advocacy

(Kevin Mortimer / Uzoh Egere / Ingrid Schoeman)

Workshop 8: Burden of disease/risk factors/mortality (Epidemiology)

Andrea Rachow / Andre Amaral

?15.00 - 15.30

TEA

15.30 - 16.30

Workshops 1 - 4 (continue)

16.30 - 17.30

?Plenary Workshop Feedback

17.30 - 18.00

Discussion: Focus of Definitions

?18.00

DINNER FOR STEERING COMMITTEE & WORKSHOP CHAIRS