[e-drug] REMINDER: Register on website and submit abstracts for ICIUM 2011

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E-DRUG: REMINDER: Register on website and submit abstracts for ICIUM 2011
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Informed Strategies, Effective Policies, Lasting Solutions
April 10-14th 2011
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria

Attendance at ICIUM 2011 will be limited to about 500 participants. Preference for limited spaces will be given to those with accepted abstracts and key policy makers.
  
The focus of ICIUM 2011 is on the evaluation of impact of interventions and policies on use of medicines. All submissions should have use of medicines as their central issue. The highest rated abstracts will:
-- Describe the effects of an intervention or a policy change on use of medicines in a low- or middle-income country; or
-- Examine methods for studying patterns or determinants of drug use in low- or middle-income countries.

Priority will be given to the following key focus and topic areas:

1. Access to Medicines: public and private sector, production, intellectual property, generics, price negotiation, access to new and high-cost medicines, and civil society issues related to access to medicines.
2. Medicines Policy, regulation, governance: guidelines, essential medicines lists, health reform, drug quality, promotion, and transparency.
3. Economics, financing, insurance systems: cost, affordability, incentives, medicines coverage
4. Child health: IMCI and pediatric medicines.
5. Chronic care: diabetes, hypertension, mental health, and adherence.
6. HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis: global drug programs, adherence, retention, supply chain management, pharmacovigilance, and adverse event monitoring, as they relate to access and use of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis therapies in resource-limited settings
7. Malaria: chemotherapy and chemoprevention of malaria
8. Drug resistance: surveillance, containment strategies, and drug development.

Descriptive studies will only be considered if they present useful new methodologies. Research from high income countries may be submitted if the methods or findings are particularly relevant.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 7 December 2010. Greater topic detail and guidelines for abstracts can be found at www.icium2011.org

For the ICIUM 2011 International Organizing Committee
Keith Johnson
Center for Pharmaceutical Management
Management Sciences for Health
kjohnson@msh.org

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E-DRUG: Special Call for ICIUM2011
Abstracts and Scholarship Applications on Gender Issues in Medicines Access and Use
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SPECIAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS ON GENDER ISSUES IN MEDICINES ACCESS AND USE

ICIUM2011 (www.icium2011.org) focuses on the impact of interventions, programs, and policies on use of medicines in low and middle-income countries. In each of eight major topic areas (access; policy; economics; chronic care; child health; HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis; malaria; and drug resistance), research on medicines issues at the international, regional, national, institutional, provider, and patient levels is of interest. The ICIUM2011 Call for Abstracts (http://www.inrud.org/ICIUM/Call-for-Abstracts.cfm) describes topics of interest in detail. Since the intent of ICIUM2011 is to help shape evidence based policy recommendations and a future research agenda, both newly completed and recently published work can be submitted.

In addition to the topics listed in the call for abstracts, ICIUM2011 seeks submissions of work on gender issues in medicines access and use, a cross-cutting theme which will be addressed throughout the conference. Generous support from the UK Government and the Suzanne Mubarak Regional Centre for Women's Health and Development makes this focus of the conference possible and a limited number of scholarships will be available for researchers working on gender-related issues to travel to Alexandria and participate in the conference. Eligible individuals from low or middle income countries need to have an accepted gender-related abstract and propose a strategy to disseminate results from ICIUM2011 among colleagues in their countries or professional networks.

Gender-focused work can span the wide range of ICIUM2011 topics. Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to, assessments of gender equity in: access to and use of medicines; participation in care programs; adherence to therapy; financing and affordability of care and medicines; and perceptions on medicines.
  
For abstract submission, please go to http://www.inrud.org/ICIUM/Abstract-Submission.cfm. Besides submitting their abstract, individuals interested in applying for a scholarship to present their gender-related work should also upload on the website a brief (maximum 500 words) description of a dissemination strategy for sharing gender-focused reports from the conference. Dissemination strategies may include presentation of ICIUM2011 proceedings at relevant national conferences and at meetings with national and institutional policy makers; messages to health care providers; and outreach to the public via the media.
  
The ICIUM2011 Scientific Program Committee is looking forward to receiving your work in this important, under-researched area, and to meeting you in Alexandria!

For the ICIUM2011 Scientific Program Committee
Keith Johnson
Center for Pharmaceutical Management
Management Sciences for Health
"Johnson,Keith" <kjohnson@msh.org>