4th National Congress of Tropical Medicine and 1st Lusophone Meeting on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Opportunistic Diseases

• Autor(a) principal: Viveiros, Miguel
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Matos, Olga
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.25761/anaisihmt.20

The Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Lisbon (IHMT) and the Association for the Development of Tropical Medicine (ADMT) organized the 4th National Congress of Tropical Medicine (CNMT) on April 19-21, 2017 in Lisbon in tandem with the 1st Lusophone Meeting on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Opportunistic Diseases, integrating the 115th anniversary of the IHMT. This biennial event brought together scientists and experts from CPLP member states, from Europe and all over the world, being the most important congress on global health and tropical medicine in Portugal. The main objective of the 2017’s edition was to establish a platform to discuss cosmopolitan themes and diseases with their own specificities in tropical countries, such as AIDS, Tuberculosis and Opportunistic Diseases, extending the interventions to the most traditional topics in tropical health like malaria, bilharziosis, leishmaniasis, trypanosomes, Zika virus disease and dengue, among others. This paper summarizes the main conclusions of this meeting where the state of the art was reviewed in terms of current knowledge and control strategies, covering aspects from basic research to issues related to implementation and health systems