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21 - 23 February 2002
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

     
 

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Programme (contd.)

22 February 2002:

8:40 Keynote speech: Dr Peter Singer (University of Toronto, Canada)

Theme 3: Best current methods: balancing standards of care with appropriate trial design

Session co-chaired by Dr Dafna Feinholz-Klip (Instituto Nacional de Perinatalogia, Mexico)

9:10 Plenary introduction: Dr Maarten Schim van der Loeff (MRC Laboratories, The Gambia)

9:40 Presentation of two relevant case studies: Dr James Lavery (Fogarty International Centre, USA)
- Case study 5: evaluating the use of traditional medicines
- Case study 6: the wider implications of preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and subsequent management of women and children, in rural Uganda

9:50 Break

 

 

 

 

12 - 14 FEBRUARY 2004
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

A follow-up Workshop will be held in February 2004 to explore developments in this area since the publication of the Report.  The Workshop, co-hosted by the South African MRC and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics

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10:10 Discussion of case studies in breakout groups

12:10 Report back from breakout groups in plenary session

13:00 Lunch


Afternoon - Arrangements to be confirmed

Evening - Informal dinner (Arrangements to be advised)


23 February 2002:

9:00 Summing up of proceedings: Dr Malegapuru Makgoba (*)(MRC South Africa) and Mr Nick Winterton (MRC UK)

9:30 Business meeting - purpose and future of Global Forum

11:30 Preview of next meeting

11:45 End of formal proceedings followed by LUNCH at the hotel

 

HBE

John E. Fogarty International Center

Medical Research Council

NIH

NICHD

National Eye Institute


OPAS Brazil

National Institute on Drugs Abuse


Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Wellcome Trust

 National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
 


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