- Performance and uptake of infection prevention and control
- Health care-associated infection and economic cost
- Current strategy, response and challenges to communicable diseases
- Fighting threat from Antimicrobial Resistance
- Public heath investment in infection control
- Infection prevention and control within laboratory environment
- New strategies in IPC leadership and governance
Objectives of the conference
The Conference will provide the opportunity to consider ways:
- To determine the uptake and performance of IPC
- To assess current trend and response to communicable diseases
- To determine the global threat from and fight against antimicrobial resistance
- To examine the resource and investment in IPC and AMR
- To determine new strategies in IPC leadership and governance
- To evaluate IPC practice within laboratory settings
- To explore the economic cost and need for investment in developing IPCs policy
Themes broken into sub-themes
- IPC uptake and performance
- Increasing uptake and effectiveness of IPC at facility and community level
- Hospital infection control: challenges and opportunities
- IPC priority policy
- Health care-associated infection(HAIs)
- Magnitude of HAIs in Kenya and beyond
- Economic cost and burden of HAI
- HAI policy
- Current strategy, response and challenges to communicable diseases (CDs)
- Current trend and effort towards CDs
- Practical approach and response to CDs prevention
- Burden and challenges to the fight against CDs
- Fighting threat from Antimicrobial Resistance
- AMR threat to global health
- Action plan to fight AMR
- Resource allocation for AMR
- Antibiotic Policy
- Public heath investment in infection control
- Resource mobilization and investment in IPC
- Resource mobilization and investment in AMR
- Resource mobilization and investment in CDs
- Infection prevention and control within laboratory environment
- Biosafety/Biosecurity
- IPC in laboratory settings
- New strategies in IPC leadership and governance
- New IPC leadership strategies
- IPC policy and governance at national and county level
- IPC committees
- Other IPC topics
- IPC Education and communication
- IPC in the community
- IPC in disaster preparedness and outbreak response
- Quality Management Systems (QMS) in IPC
- Sterilization, Disinfection and Hand Hygiene
- Blood safety, Hepatitis and other blood borne pathogens
- TB and Respiratory Infections
- Surveillance of HAIs
- Environmental cleaning and Healthcare Waste Management
- Immunization
- Occupational health and safety
- Emerging and re-emerging infections
- New approaches and technological advancements in IPC
- Infrastructure, facility design and equipment for IPC
- IPC in veterinary and other non-medical settings
- IPC in special units including laboratory, reproductive health, HIV clinics and others
- Prevention of fecal-oral transmission
- Cholera