Infection prevention and control during and beyond pandemic.
Subthemes:
Subtheme 1: IPC standard and additional precautions
- Hand hygiene
- Personal protective equipment
- Waste management
- Environmental infection control in health care setting
- Cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization
- Infrastructure and IPC Hierarchy of control SIPC assessments
Sub theme 2: IPC Capacity building
- Setting up an IPC program
- IPC committees
- Trainings in IPC
- IPC resource mobilization and budget
- Collaboration and partnership
- CQI for IPC
- Data demand and information use: Facility assessments, QI data
- IPC QI projects
- Emergency preparedness
- Public health emergency operational centres
Sub theme 3: Anti-microbial resistance
- Setting up an AMS program
- Antimicrobial resistance: What’s old, new and why do we care?
- Rational antibiotic use
- Antimicrobial best practices
- Antifungal drug resistance
- Antiviral drug resistance; methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Carbapenem- resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE), Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase’s (ESBLs) resistance, vancomycin- Resistance enterococcus (VRE) .
Sub theme 4: Surveillance
- Disease Surveillance
- contact tracing
- HAI surveillance: Definitions, guidelines, and practice
- Device related complications
- Ventilators
- Urinary catheters
- Peripheral catheters
- Cannulation and infusions
- Surgical site infection
- Outbreak management
- Care bundles
Sub theme 5: Vaccines
- Vaccine uptake
- Covid vaccine
- Hepatitis B Vaccine
- Flu vaccine
- TB Vaccines
- Vaccine safety and adverse events
- Vaccine hesitancy
Sub theme 6: IPC Procedures in special settings
- Ports of entry
- ICU
- Renal Unit
- Newburn Unit
- Dental
- Burn unit
- Isolation unit
- Quarantine centres
- Schools and other institution of learning
- Prisons
vii. Sub theme 7: Community
- Community engagement
- Risk communication
- Wash programs
- Community mitigation measures
- Transport sector
- Religious settings
- Community ceremonies
- Hotels and bars
Sub theme 8: Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity
- Basic microbiology and infection chain
- Phlebotomy
Sub theme 9: Occupational health and safety
- HCW safety
- Health care worker vaccination
- Needle stick injuries
- Other occupational diseases
- Tuberculosis
- Hepatitis
Sub theme 10: Application of ICT platforms in IPC
- Health care workers support apps
- Surveillance apps
- National databases and line lists
Sub theme 11: Patient safety
- Prescription
- Administration of drugs
- Medical errors
- Equipment failures
- Blood transfusions
- Diagnostic errors
- Injection safety
Sub theme 12: COVID-19 Infection
- Role of HCWs in Covid mitigation
- Risk factors for Covid in health care workers
- Characteristics of HCWs infected with Covid
- Impact of Covid on HCW wellness
Sub theme 13: Other IPC topics not covered
- Global health security
- Emerging and re-emerging pathogens
Sub theme 14: Health care waste management
- Plenary sessions
- continuum of IPC issues around emergency response to pandemics of novel pathogens.... from preparedness to public health response and pandemic control.