{"id":12341,"date":"2019-04-06T15:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T14:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=12341"},"modified":"2019-04-06T15:29:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T14:29:38","slug":"conference-on-tropical-medicine-and-global-health-munich-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/04\/conference-on-tropical-medicine-and-global-health-munich-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference on Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Munich 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been attending the &#8220;Conference on Tropical Medicine and Global Health&#8221; here in Munich where I am was particular impressed by the policy talks in the plenary session.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12342\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12342\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/screen-1.png\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12342 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/screen-1-620x307.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/screen-1-620x307.png 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/screen-1-768x380.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/screen-1-1009x500.png 1009w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/screen-1.png 1643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">17 Goals to Transform Our World<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This includes the talk by Achim Hoerauf who talked about the UN declaration of sustainable goals but also the 5th progress report of the London Declaration about the neglected tropical diseases (that has not been signed by Germany for whatever reasons). The latter has <a href=\"https:\/\/unitingtocombatntds.org\/reports\/5th-report\/executive-summary\/\">some numbers to celebrate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Human African trypanosomiasis<\/span><br \/>\nIn 2016, only 2,184 cases of sleeping sickness were reported worldwide, down from 6,747 in 2011.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Trachoma<\/span><br \/>\nFive countries have been validated by WHO as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem: Cambodia, Lao People\u2019s Democratic Republic, Mexico (2017), Morocco (2016) and Oman (2012).<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lymphatic filariasis<\/span><br \/>\nIn 2017, four countries \u2013 the Marshall Islands, Thailand, Togo and Tonga \u2013 eliminated LF as a public health problem, bringing the total to ten countries (with Cambodia, the Cook Islands, Maldives, Niue, Sri Lanka and Vanuatu).<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Guinea worm disease<\/span><br \/>\nGuinea worm disease, which 30 years ago afflicted more than 3 million people in 20 countries, is on the brink of eradication, with just 26 cases in two countries.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Onchocerciasis<\/span><br \/>\nOnchocerciasis has been eliminated in nearly all of the Americas. Colombia (2013), Ecuador (2014), Guatemala (2016) and Mexico (2015) have been validated as \u2018onchocerciasis-free\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 24.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been attending the &#8220;Conference on Tropical Medicine and Global Health&#8221; here in Munich where I am was particular impressed by the policy talks in the plenary session. This includes the talk by Achim Hoerauf who talked about the UN declaration of sustainable goals but also the 5th progress report of the London Declaration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/04\/conference-on-tropical-medicine-and-global-health-munich-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conference on Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Munich 2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12348,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12341\/revisions\/12348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}