WORLD ARTHRITIS DAY AFRICA CONFERENCE 2018 - Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe Oct 10 -12 - saraa
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WORLD ARTHRITIS DAY AFRICA
CONFERENCE 2018
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Oct 10 –12
E-mail: info@arthritiscareafrica.org
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
1. Femi Adelowo – Nigeria, Pres of AFLAR
2. Ian Chikanza Zimbabwe, UK
3. Dzifa Dew - Ghana
4. Sally Trollip Zambia
5. Asgar Kalla S Africa
6. Girish Moody S Africa
7. Lazaros Sakkas Greece
8. Omondi Oyoo Kenya
9. Patrice Doualla Cameroon
10. Mbuyi-Muamba DRC, Pres-elect of AFLAR
11. Panganani Njobvu Zambia
HEADLINE PARTNERS IN ATTENDANCE AND SUPPORT
1. Novartis - TBC
1. Royal College of Physicians, London,
2. UK
2. West African College of Physicians
3. East Central Southern Africa College
of Physicians
4. African League Against Rheumatism
(AFLAR)
Victoria Falls - “Mosi-oa-Tunya”, - “The Smoke that Thunders”
Oct 10th RHEUMATIC & MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS (RMDs)
07:00 – 09:00 REGISTRATION
THEME RMDs – “AN UNMET MEDICAL NEED IN AFRICA”
Chair Ian C Chikanza & Panganani Njobvu
09:00 Welcome: The 1st World Arthritis Day Africa Conference 2018 (WAD Africa
Conference)
Ian C Chikanza
09:15 Epidemiology of RMDs in Africa
Asgar Kalla
09:45 Gender and Arthritis: Impact on Family Economic Dynamics & Child Welfare
Sally Trollip TBC
10:15 Tea Break
RMDs AND AGEING
Chair Femi Adelowo & Girish Mody
10:45 Prevalence of RMDs in the Elderly Patients
Bilkish Kassim
11:15 Osteoarthritis
Panganani Njobvu
11:45 Psychologic & Socio-Economic Aspects of RMDs in the Elderly
Marck Chikanza
12:15 Poster and Stand Visits
12:45 LUNCH
14:00 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS & LAUNCH OF WAD – AFRICA
Chair Ian C Chikanza & Panganani Njobvu
Zimbabwe - President Emmerson Mnangwaga - TBC
Zambia - President Edgar Lungu - TBC
INFLAMMATORY RMDs
Chair Rodney Grahame & Asgar Kalla
14:45 Spectrum of SLE in Africa
Sally Trollip
15:10 Advances in SLE Management – Role of Rituximab
Girish Mody
15:35 Developments in Psoriatic Arthritis Therapy
Lazaros Sakkas
16:00 Tea Break
16:15 Overview of Axial Spondyloarthritis – AxSpa
F van den Bosch
16:40 Advances in Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapy: Oral Targeted Therapies
Ian C Chikanza
ARHTRITIS IN CHILDREN
Chair Dzifa Dew & Sally Trollip
17:10 Overview of Paediatric Inflammatory RMDs
Ian Chikanza
17:30 Spectrum of Paediatric RMDs in Sub-Saharan Africa
J Chipeta
17:50 Paediatric RMDs in Cameroon
Patrice M Doualla
18:10 END of DAY 1
18:30 RECEPTION DINNER – Elephant Hills Hotel
October 11th SYSTEMIC MANIFESTATIONS OF INFLAMMATORY RMDS
Chair Ali Jawad & Lazaros Sakkas
08:00 Cardiovascular Disease Complications of Inflammatory RMDs
Omondi Oyoo
08:25 Renal Disease in Inflammatory RMDs
Martin Odwee
08:50 The Expression of Scleroderma in S Africa
Mohamed Tikly
08:50 Interstitial Lung Disease in RMDs:
Ian Chikanza TBC
09:15 Advances in Crystal induced arthropathies
Mbuyi-Muamba
10:10 Tea & Stand/Poster Viewing
INFECTION AND RMDs
Chair Elsa van Duuren & Omondi Oyoo
10:40 HIV and RMDs
Panganani Njobvu
11:00 Reactive Arthritis and Non-HIV Infections
Dzifa Dew
11:20 Rheumatic Fever
C Mwaba
11:40 Rheumatic manifestations of Hepatitis C
Patrice Doualla
WORLD ARTHRITIS DAY AFRICA PLENARY LECTURE 2018
Chair Ian Chikanza & Femi Adelowo
12:00 Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue
Rodney Grahame
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 Visit to Victoria Falls, Dr Livingstone Statue etc
16:00 Boat Trip on Zambezi River
18:30 GALA DINNER
Oct 12th NON INFLAMMATORY RMDs
Chair Mbuyi-Muamba & Mohamed Tikly
08:00 Osteoporosis
Ali Jawad
08:30 Fibromyalgia
Etalla, Kenya
08:55 Role of Radiologic Imaging in RMDs
Kit Naik
TRAINING: SUB-SPECIALITY TRAINING IN RHEUMATOLOGY
Chair Ian C Chikanza & Patrice Doualla
09:25 Rheumatology Manpower in Africa; Training; AFLAR Perspective
Femi Adelowo - Immediate Past Pres AFLAR
How can Rheumatology sub-speciality be integrated into General/Internal Medicine
training?
10:35 ➢ Bilkish Cassim - Physician Specialisation in S Africa – Pres of College of
Physician,, S Africa
10:50 ➢ Ifeoma Egbuonu - Physician Specialisation in ECOWAS Region- Pres of West
African College of Physicians
11:05 ➢ Ali Jawad – Shared views and advice – International Medical Director, Royal
College of Physicians, London, UK
11:20 Interactive Open Discussion with Panel
HEALTH MINISTERIAL OVERVIEWS
Chair Panganani Njobvu & Nelson Okwanga
12:00 Zimbabwe
12:20 Zambia
etc
12:40 CLOSING REMARKS
Femi Adelowo
Patrice Doualla
Girish Mody
Ian Chikanza
Panganani Njobvu – Vote of Thanks
13:00 LUNCH & DEPART
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