2022 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)

12:00pm – 1:45 pm United States Pacific Time Zone

Poster Session A - Hall 4A

Strong fine-scale spatial and temporal structure of residual Plasmodium falciparum in Zanzibar detected through multiplexed amplicon sequencing and MinION sequencing

• Abdul Wahid Al-Mafazy

Improvements in the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) system for malaria surveillance in mainland Tanzania

• Joseph Joachim Joseph, Humphrey Mkali, Ssanyu Nyinondi, Osia Mwaipape, Abdul Wahid Al-Mafazy, Donal Bisanzio, Erin Eckert, Richard Reithinger, Jeremiah Ngondi

Transitioning malaria surveillance in Zanzibar from Malaria Early Epidemic Detection System to Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) System: an ongoing system investigation

• Abdul Wahid Al-Mafazy

Reduction of clinical malaria cases from 2014 to 2021 in mainland Tanzania: a comparison of trends by health facility ownership

• Osia Mwaipape, Joseph J Joseph, Humphrey Mkali, Abdul Wahid Al-Mafazy, Jeremiah Ngondi, Donal Bisanzio

3:00 pm United States Pacific Time Zone

Room 618/619/620

Symposium: The benefits of electronic data collection to improve information and decision making for disease elimination and eradication programs

• Clara Burgert-Brucker

3:15 pm United States Pacific Time

Room 6AB

Characteristics of travel from Zanzibar to Tanzania mainland and associated risk of malaria infection

• Abdul Wahid Al-Mafazy

3:20 pm United States Pacific Time

Room 618/619/620

Strategic use of health information systems towards malaria elimination in Zanzibar

• Abdul Wahid Al-Mafazy

3:40 pm United States Pacific Time

Room 618/619/620

EDC across LF programmatic lifespan from MDA to surveys in Haiti

• Alain Javel

4:00 pm United States Pacific Time

Room 611/612

Significant progress towards eliminating lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem in the rainforests of southeastern Nigeria

• Emmanuel Emukah

6:30 pm United States Pacific Time

Room 606/607

Country ownership of Neglected Tropical Diseases in Tanzania: Resource mobilization through Comprehensive Council Health Plans in Tanzania

• Wemaeli Mweteni

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm United States Pacific Time

Poster Session B - Hall 4A

Towards onchocerciasis elimination: promising trend on epidemiological evaluation results in Tanzania

• Katie Crowley, Julius Masaninka, Shabbir Lalji

Comparison of household participation in community directed treatment in two countries

• Emily Griswold

Factors associated with persistent transmission of Lymphatic Filariasis in 3 districts in Tanzania

• Veronica Kabona, Ambaskisye Mhiche, Julius Masanika, Shabbir Lalji, Molly Brady, Erica Shoemaker

Mass drug administration coverage and determinants of drug uptake for elimination of onchocerciasis transmission in Ulanga District, Tanzania

• Ambakisye Mhiche

Onchocerciasis elimination progress after two decades of treatment; last mile challenges in Mahenge, Tanzania

• Julius Masaninka, Shabbir Lalji

Raising the visibility of NTDs in the discussion of domestic health resource allocation: Lessons from Colombia, Guatemala, and the Philippines

• Richard Killian

Acquired malaria cases among school-aged children in Thailand

• Donal Bisanzio, Jui Shah

Assessing climate and environmental factors of malaria elimination in Thailand

• Donal Bisanzio, Jui Shah

Community-based surveillance and minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) for RSV-associated infant mortality in Karachi, Pakistan

• Lindsay Parlberg, Christina Paganelli, Norman Goco

Improving Trachoma Mass Drug Administration (MDA) in pastoralist and mobile populations in Moroto district; Lessons learnt from a Data Quality Assessment (DQA)

• Joyce Achan, Elizabeth Plunkett, Elizabeth Sutherland

4:00 PM United States Pacific Time

Room 615/616/617 (6th Floor)

Meeting WHO verification Guidelines for Onchocerciasis Elimination: Perspectives of defining Onchocerciasis Transmission Zones in East Africa including areas co-endemic with Lymphatic Filariasis

• Moses Katabarwa , Upendo Mwingira

4:45 pm United States Pacific Time

Room 602/603/604

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Qualitative Assessments of Persistent Transmission of NTDs in 5 Countries

• Erica Shoemaker

11 am – 12:45 pm United States Pacific Time

Poster Session C - Hall 4A

Gender, equity and social inclusion (GESI) integration into the Tanzania Neglected Tropical Diseases Control Programme: learning and experiences from Mlimba District Council (DC)

• Isaac Njue

Addressing trichiasis surgical data challenges for dossier validation in the trachoma elimination endgame: experience from Tanzania

• Ambakisye Mhiche, Jeremiah Ngondi

Predictors of persistent and recrudescent trachoma: Findings from a qualitative investigation in Kalambo DC, Mpwapwa DC and Monduli DC in Tanzania

• Evangelina Chihoma,Veronica Kabona, Ambakisye Mhiche, Julius Masanika, Jeremiah Ngondi, Elizabeth Sutherland

Tackling trachoma end game challenges and fast-tracking trachoma elimination: Leveraging the new approaches to scale up SAFE Interventions, an Experience from Tanzania

• Jeremiah Ngondi, Veronica Kabona, Ambakisye Mhiche

Use of travel history and parasite genomic data with standard surveillance to track malaria transmission dynamics and identify reservoirs of transmission in the low-endemic setting of Zanzibar

• Abdul Wahid Al-Mafazy

A web-based histology quality assurance platform as a remote training tool for global use in low resource settings

• David M. Plotner, Amir Karshenas, Rebecca L. Watkins, Norman Goco, Lindsay M. Parlberg

Improving health system performance through mutualization of SMC activities with catch-up immunization in Labé, Guinea

• Alioune Camara, Aissata Fofana, Moustapha Dabo, Nene Mariama Barry, Mamadou Oudy Bah, Hamidou Barry, Timothée Guilavogui, Eugène Kaman Lama, Aissata Fofana, Hamidou Barry

Estimating the effect of introducing digital immunity passport (Tawwaklana) to mitigate COVID-19 spread in Saudi Arabia

• Donal Bisanzio, Richard Reithinger, Hala AlMossawi

Experience from Joint/synchronised Mass Drug Administration for Trachoma targeting Migrant populations

• Stephen Begumisa, Jeremiah Ngondi

Using qualitative methods to establish factors contributing to trachoma recrudescence and low mass drug administration (MDA) coverage in Amudat district

• Joyce Achan

3:00 pm United States Pacific Time

Room 615/616/617

Building a Global Emerging Infectious Disease Research Network during a Pandemic

• Tony Moody

8:00 AM United States Pacific Time

Room 605/610 (6th Floor)

Elimination of Onchocerciasis Transmission in Three Foci of Uganda

• Lauri Bernard, Moses Katabarwa

Room 615/616/617 (6th Floor)

Strengthening Laboratory Capacity and Optimizing the Utilization of Novel Approaches to Accelerate the Elimination of Onchocerciasis in the WHO African Region (AFRO) 

• Upendo Mwingira