Event description:
Purpose: Bring together educational institutions, governments, the diagnostic industry and pharmaceutical industries, international organizations and major donors to:
- Share the major problems associated with fungal infections.
- Contrast the burden of certain fungal diseases and impact against other priorities.
- Identify key roadblocks to progress:
- Partial or total lack of and access to diagnostics
- Lack of good epidemiological data
- Lack of quality of life measures of disability and mortality
- Lack of public health investment
- Unavailability and un-affordability of antifungal drugs
- Non or limited availability of trained staff - Develop a global roadmap for progress over 10 years.
Event Organiser:
Global Action Fund for Fungal Infections (GAFFI)
Rue de Berne 11
1st Floor
201 Geneva
Switzerland
Phone +447802482193
ddenning[at]gaffi.org