GENDRIVAX planned two specialized conferences that have been held in Africa on vaccines for meningitis and iNTS.
A conference focusing primarily on Salmonella has been held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 8-10 December, 2012.
Topics included:
- Epidemiology of Salmonella Disease in Kenya
- Salmonella genomics
- Salmonella immunology
- Salmonella vaccines
- Pan-African Salmonella epidemiology
- Meningococcus
A conference focusing on the development of a pan specific vaccine for Meningitis has been held in Accra, Ghana, on 9-10 December, 2013.
Topics included:
- Evolution of virulence in African Neisseria
- Designing a vaccine for current and future serotypes of Neisseria meningitidis
- Progress towards making an affordable pan-specific vaccine
- Testing of a pan-specific vaccine in the context of unstable epidemics
- If we make it would anyone use it? The medical and economic imperatives driving uptake of a Neisseria vaccine for Africa