11th Annual Meeting of the Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC)

June 19 - 21, 2024, Les Pensières Center for Global Health, Veyrier-du-Lac (France)

Summary

The 11th Annual Meeting of the Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC) will take place from June 19-21, 2024 at Les Pensières Center for Global Health in Veyrier-du-Lac, France.

Resources

Laboratory working group achievements

M. L. Quilici, InstitutPasteur

Supporting cholera diagnostics

A. Sinha, Gavi

Cholera RDTs: catalysts for enhanced surveillance in the DRC

Dr. P. Welo, PNECHOL-MD DRC & Dr. X. Wang, US CDC

A multi-site pilot study of the deployment of cholera rapid diagnostic tests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

W. Moser

Public health surveillance for cholera

M. Turnsek, CDC

GTFCC cholera guidance: tool to align testing strategy for Malawi

M. Nyenje

Mozambique: testing strategy for cholera surveillance

RDT based cholera surveillance

S. Dahal, Ministry of Health and Population Nepal

Cholera laboratory capacity assessments 2024

V. Harris, WHO

Evaluation de système de laboratoire implique dans la confirmation biologique du cholera en République Démocratique du congo du 13 au 22 decembre 2023

B. N. Miwanda Nkema

Report of the mission to assess the capacity of laboratories involved in the diagnosis and surveillance of cholera in Cameroon (in French)

Dr. A. M. Assala

GTFCC laboratory training tools

A. A. Fayad

Généralités sur le cholera en union des Comores (in French)

D. Soule

National Public Health Laboratory & blood transfusion services

G. Awin

GTFCC technical note on DNA based identification

A. A. Fayad, WHO & GTFCC

An unusual two-strain cholera outbreak in Lebanon 2022-2023

A. A. Fayad, WHO & GTFCC

Genomics training in the EMRO region

Dr. L. W. Meredith

Genomics training in the EMRO region

Dr. L. W. Meredith

National Laboratory Response to cholera in Pakistan during 2022-2023

A. Zaman

A field evaluation of cholera rapid diagnostic tests

Dr. Bhuiyan, icddr,b

Cholera testing in MSF programs

E. Piriou, MSF

Priorities for the laboratory working group

M.-L. Quilici, InstitutPasteur & N. Wauquier, GTFCC & WHO