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How many volunteers were present at the Congress? : |
4000 |
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Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? : |
UK, USA, Germany, Turkey, Lybia, Tunesia, Muraku, Palestine, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, France, Sweeden, Australia, Sudan, India, etc |
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Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? : |
Yes |
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If yes, please write the names of the organizations in the box : |
WHO,DNDi |
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What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? : |
it was an excellent presentation, about the source of Meglusan which is not known about the countries which use it and if WHO approved |
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If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. : |
Prof. Carlos Costa, Prof. J. Show, etc |
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Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress : |
Yes, following the congress we have communications in regard of leishmaniasis control and treatment and and Prof. A. Satuskar visitted Iran, he gave a lecture in School of Public health and we have visited cutaneous leishmaniasis patients at CRTSDL and in an endemic area and the patients were treated using heat therapy machine and now we are following the patients, at week 4-6 we will check the rate of efficacy and send the data and photos to Prof. Satuskar and others who are using the same machine |
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Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : |
Due to current situation everything was difficult, the hotel reservation was also so. |
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Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : |
The most special for the meeting was that we could meet many scientists around the world, I have met scientisits from different countries and endemic areas discussed with them different issues, I have discussed leishmanization with Prof. John David, Dr David Sacks and Dr. Steeve Reed. I have discussed the issue of using second generation vaccines with Dr. Steeve Reed, director of IDRI, USA and others, I have talked to Dr Musa Ahmad about the collaboration between Iran and Sudan in regard of Leishmaniasis projects and exchange students. I have met Prof. M. Ollete and discussed about the leishmaniasis cases with drug resistant in Iran and possibly collaboration in drug resistant. I deeply feel that we need to organize an Internation meeting on leishmanisis in Iran. |