[Bioscys-africa] Fwd: [Bioinformatics] Conference Announcement And Call For Abstracts & Exhibitions

[george lloyd]

George Lloyd Githinji

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From: "Andrew C. Kajeguka" <akajeguka at nimr.or.tz>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 23:18:11 +0300
To: <bioinformatics at sanbi.ac.za>
Subject: [Bioinformatics] Conference Announcement And Call For Abstracts &
	Exhibitions

Dear all,

National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) is organizing the "21ST
ANNUAL JOINT SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE (AJSC)" that will be held at March 07-09,
2006"

NIMR is now welcoming abstracts for many themes including ICT particularly
"Health Information Systems" or generally about any IT solution you
developed that is focusing in health sector.

MEETING VENUE, DATES AND TIME:
The 21st AJSC will be held at the Arusha International Conference Centre in
Arusha, northern Tanzania. The conference opens on Tuesday, March 07, 2006
at 08:30h and closes on Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 17.30h.

CONFERENCE THEMES AND SUB-THEMES:
The theme for the 21st AJSC is: Health Research Priorities in Tanzania:
Meeting the Millennium Development Goals

The scientific programme will accommodate broadly the theme above. However,
the timeline will include plenary sessions of state of art lectures on
various sub-themes followed by parallel sessions that will receive and
discuss free communications. This year, important plenary and parallel
sessions are devoted to the following sub-themes:

·	Health Research Priorities in developing countries
·	Impact of poverty-related diseases on maternal and child health (including
HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis and other communicable diseases)
·	Non-communicable diseases
·	Indigenous Knowledge and Alternative Medicine
·	Health Systems and Policy Research including Health Information Systems

LANGAUAGE: English is the working language of the conference

PARTICIPANTS:
The invitation is open to individual and group participants with keen
interest on research and development (researchers, research clients
including health related donors, NGOs, health workers, trainers, policy and
decision makers, representatives of special interest groups and the mass
media).

ABSTRACTS:
Abstracts are invited on the above sub-themes. Abstracts must be submitted
electronically by December 15th 2005. Each abstract must not exceed 250
words and should include the objectives, methodology, results and
conclusions. The abstract should show the surnames and initials of those who
will make the presentations should be underlined. Each oral presentation,
including discussion time, must not exceed 20 minutes. The conference will
provide projection facilities for transparencies and power point.

OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION:
Other useful information about Exbition, Tourism, Travel and Accomodation,
Registration fee, Application forms, and how to send the abstract
electronically can be found at the following website: http://www.nimr.or.tz

CONTACT ADDRESS:
Secretariat
Annual Joint Scientific Conference
National Institute for Medical Research
P.O. Box 9653, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel: +255 –22-2121400
Fax: +255-22-2121360 / 2121380
Email: ajsc at nimr.or.tz
Website: www.nimr.or.tz



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