Conferences and Courses

CUBA
Dengue Fever, a menace at the door of the year 2000
Havana
23 August - 3 September 1999
Please contact:
Professor Maria G Guzman,
Instituto “Pedro Kouro,”
Autopista Novia del Mediodoa,
Km 6, PO Box Mnao 13,
Ciudad Habana, Cuba
Telephone: 53 7 220450 or Fax: 53 7 220633.
E-mail: lupe@ipk.sld.cu

USA
Malaria Policies and Human Development: Approaches for the Next Century
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
7-17 September 1999
A complete description and on-line application form are available:
E-mail: malaria@hiid.harvard.edu
Web site: www.hiid.harvard.edu/training.health.html

UNITED KINGDOM
Vaccines and Immunisation in the next millennium
Manchester
7-10 September 1999
For further information please contact:
James Arthur.
Telephone: +44 (0) 1625 624060
or Fax: +44 (0) 1625 430544.
E-mail: james.arthur@cmc.co.uk or
Web site: www.immunise.man.ac.uk

USA
Review Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
San Francisco, California
23-24 September 1999
For further information contact:
ASTMH Telephone: (847) 480 9592 or
Fax (847) 480 9282.
E-mail: astmh.@astmh.org
Web site: www.astmh.org

SWITZERLAND
Accidents due to Venomous and Poisonous Animals
Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel
27-30 September 1999
Course Secretariat: PO Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland.
Telephone: +41 61 284 8280 or
Fax: +41 61 284 8106.
E-mail: sticourses@ubaclu.unibas.ch
Web site: www.wb.unibas.ch.STI

GERMANY
Hallenser Travel Medicine Forum
Halle (Saale)
18 September 1999
For more information contact:
Dr H J Deuber, Martin Luther University Halle, Wittenberg,
Clinics for Internal Medicine,
Department of Nephrology,
Ernst Grube Strasse 40,
0-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany.
Telephone: +49 345 557 2717 or
Fax: +49 345 557 2236.
E-mail: brigitte.kassner@medizin.uni-halle.de

USA
Review Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travellers’ Health
San Francisco, California; Moscone Convention Center South Building
23-24 September 1999
Organised by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
in co-operation with the American Committee on Clinical Tropical Medicine
and Travellers’ Health (ACCTMTH).
For additional information, please contact ASTMH.
Telephone: (847)480-9592.
Fax (847) 480-9282 or
E-mail astmh@astmh.org.
Web site: www.astmh.org.

SOUTH AFRICA AND BOTSWANA
5th Course in International Travel Medicine
26 September - 5 October 1999
Further information please contact:
Danish Society of Travel Medicine, Mads R. Buhl, MD, Chairman.
Department of Infectious Diseases, Marselisborg Hospital,
8000 Aarhus, Denmark.
Telephone +45 89 49 18 02 or Fax. +45 89 49 18 00.
E-mail: buhl@aaa.dk

UGANDA
5th Tropical Medicine Expedition
In collaboration with the University of Makerere, Uganda
7-19 November 1999
Secretariat:
Kay Schaefer,
Travel Medicine Center,
Teutoburgerstr 14,
50678 Cologne, Germany.
Telephone/Fax: +49 221 3404905 or
E-mail:106021.2721@compuserve.com

GERMANY
Congress for Infection and Tropical Medicine
Munich
24-27 November 1999
For more information contact:
Germany Society for International Health
Web site: www.tropenmedizin.net

BELGIUM
Third National Seminar on Travel Medicine
Brussels
25 November 1999
For further information please contact:
Dr F Jacobs
E-mail: erasmcmi@resulb.ulb.ac.be

USA
Travel Related Vaccine, Preventable Illnesses
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Hilton Washington and Towers; Washington DC
27-28 November, 1999
Travel-Related Vaccine Preventable Illnesses
Hilton Washington and Towers; Washington, DC
27-28 November, 1999
Organised by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
in cooperation with the American Committee on Clinical Tropical Medicine
and Travelers’ Health (ACCTMTH)
For additional information, please contact ASTMH
Telephone: (847)480-9592
Fax: (847) 480-9282
E-mail astmh@astmh.org.
Web site: www.astmh.org.

USA
Symposium: Hantavirus Reservoir Studies in the Americas
48th Annual American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Meeting
28 November - 2 December 1999
For more information contact:
Charles H Calisher
E-mail: calisher@usa.healthnet.org

KENYA
8th Tropical Medicine Expedition
In collaboration with the Travel Medicine Centre, Cologne, Germany and the
University of Nairobi, Kenya
6-18 February 2000
Secretariat: Dr. Kay Schaefer, Travel Medicine Centre, Teutoburgerstr.
14, D-50678 Cologne, Germany.
Tel/Fax: +49-221-340 49 05 or
E-Mail: contact@tropmedex.com or
Web site: www.tropmedex.com

UGANDA
5th Tropical Medicine Expedition
In collaboration with the Travel Medicine Centre, Cologne, Germany and the
University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda
27 February - 10 March 2000
Secretariat: Dr. Kay Schaefer, Travel Medicine Centre, Teutoburgerstr.
14, D-50678 Cologne, Germany.
Tel/Fax: +49-221-340 49 05 or
E-Mail: contact@tropmedex.com or
Web site: www.tropmedex.com

USA
Travel and Environmental Medicine Course
Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fé, NM
22-26 March 2000
The course is jointly sponsored by the Wilderness Medical Society
and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
For additional information please contact WMS at:
Telephone: 719-572-9255,
E-mail: wms@wms.org
Web site: www.wms.org
or ASTMH at:
Telephone: 847-480-9592
E-mail: astmh@astmh.org
Web site: www.astmh.org.

NEPAL
Study Tour: Trekking and Travel Medicine
25 March-9 April 2000
Contact:
Master Travel, Croxted Mews,
288 Croxted Road,
London. SE24 9BY.
Telephone: 0181 671 7521
Fax 0181 671 7327
E-mail: tours@mastertravel.co.uk
Web site: www.mastertravel.co.uk

ITALY
2nd European Conference on Travel Medicine
Venice, Fondazione Cini, Isola di San Giorgio
29-31 March 2000
For more information contact:
Dr. Walter Pasini, Viale Dardanelli 64: 47900
Rimini, Italy.
Telephone: 390-541-24301
Fax: 390-541-25748
E-mail: wpasini@rimini.com

ARGENTINA
9th International Congress on Infectious Diseases
10-13 April 2000
For further information please contact:
International Society for Infectious Diseases,
181 Longwood Avenue,
Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Telephone: (617) 277 0551
Fax: (617) 731 1541
E-mail: isidbos@aol.com

ITALY
Infettivologia 2000
Infectious Diseases Past and Present
Casale Monferrato
15-19 May 2000
Organising Secretariat:
Planet srl, Via Borgone 57-10139
Torino, Italy
Telephone: +39 11 3825357
Fax: +39 11 3825682
E-mail: planet@cse.it

TAIWAN
Travel Medicine in the 21st Century
Taipei
24-25 June 2000
The International Travel Medicine Conference 2000, organized by the Asia Pacific Society
of Travel Medicine (ASTM) and the Chinese Association of Travel Medicine (CATM)
Further information:
Conference Secretariat
P.O. Box 68-439
Taipei, Taiwan
Telephone: +886-2-2523 6017. Fax: +886-2-2537 7479
E-mail: tcm@ms5.hinet.net.