This meeting wasorganised by the Inter-Regional Association for Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy in collaboration with the ISC.

The congress was organised by the Black Sea Society of Clinic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (BSCMID and the Kazakh National Medical University (KNMU) in collaboration with ISC.
After the collapse of former Soviet Union, incidence of infectious diseases has dramatically increased in the Central Asian States. Economic and political problems and ineffectivness of new healthcare systems or programs in these countries contributed such endemic diseases.

The Organisation Secretary
Mine Akturk
ACP Congress & Organization
Phone : +90 212 219 99 39
Fax : +90 212 232 09 76
E-mail : mine@acporganizasyon.com
Website:www.iccaid.org

This workshop was co-organised by the The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Asia Pacific Society for Medical Virology (APSMV) an the Virology Section of the ISC.

Two 2-day workshops ran consecutively over 4 days, taught at basic and advanced levels. Each workshop consisted of lectures for the first day followed by a hands-on practical for the second day.

This one day meeting took place immediately before the 8th International Congress of Tropical Pediatrics (ICTP). It will be organized by the International Society of Tropical Pediatrics (ISTP) in collaboration with the Philippine Ambulatory Pediatrics Association (PAPA) and other local pediatrics organizations.
The purpose of this meeting was to develop Asian guidelines on meningitis, initiated by PSMID in collaboration with ISC.

17 – 18 April, 2008 Sitges, Spain
2nd ISC European Conference on Bloodstream Infections

To see the final programme for this meeting, please click here.
The following presentations are available for download as pdfs:

• Epidemiology of antibiotic resistance in sepsis (Ian Gould)
• Treatment of sepsis (Jean Carlet)
  
• Sepsis: unexpected effects of macrolides (Evalgelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis)
• Gram negative bacteraemia without known source (Patricia Munoz)
• Gram-positive bacteraemia (non S. aureus) without know cause (Raphael Saginur)
• Bloodstream infections in patients with underlying cardiovascular devices (Ralph Corey)
• Management of cardiac device infections (Daniel Uslan)
• Bloodstream infections in patients with febrile neutropenia (Ronald Feld)
• Vaccination against pneumococci (Keith P. Klugmann)
• Vaccination and passive immunisation against S. aureus (Jean C. Lee)
• Bloodstream infections: summary (Alasdair Geddes)

11 – 18 May, 2008, Varna, Bulgaria
8th Annual Assembly of IMAB and 3rd National Congress of Immunology

The above meeting is being co-organised by the ISC, International Medical Association of Bulgaria (IMAB), the Bulgarian Society of Immunology (BSI) and the Medical University of Varna. All aspects of infections and cancer will be addressed.
To see the programme please click here.
For further information go to www.imab-bg.org

Contact person:
Prof. Dr. Krassimir T. Metodiev, President of IMAB
Medical University, IMAB Headquarters
BG-9002 Varna, Bulgaria
Tel/Fax +359-52-634.107 (office)
E-mail: kr.metod@mail.vega.bg

Topic covered will include emerging infectious diseases, patient safety & infection control, food safety & water quality, sterilization & disinfection and occupational health & environmental control.

For further information contact: accaff_conf@ngha.med.sa