Cholera Prevention and Control Forum in May 2007

Updated - Friday 23 March 2007

Cholera prevention and control is the topic of the Third Emergency Environmental Health Forum (EEHF) co-organised by IRC on 3-4 May 2007 in Delft, The Netherlands. The aim of the Emergency Environmental Health Forum is to share field experiences and new research focusing mainly on decreasing the disease burden in emergencies. Rather than focusing on water and sanitation equipment the focus is on diarrhoea reduction and what combined methods can be used to fulfil that objective. The theme of the 2007 forum is Cholera so any presentations dealing with prevention or controlling the spread of cholera are very welcome.

Other sponsors are: Oxfam, IFRC, ICRC, IRC (International Rescue Committee), UNICEF, ACF, and MSF. The Emergency Environmental Health Forum (EEHF) is to focus on a better representation of the health/hygiene promotion and community mobilisation aspects of water and sanitation programmes, by bringing together a wider circle of agencies and participants to reflect the integral health component.

Objectives

Objectives of the forum are:

For practitioners of water, sanitation and hygiene promotion emergency programmes to share their learning and experience by means of presentations, discussions and workshops.
Academics and agency staff to present new research and development projects within this sector in a view to better understand evidence based programming.

The format will include sessions, workshops and panel discussions. Presentations will last no longer than 15 minutes - followed by 15 minutes of questions.

Participating organisations will have an opportunity to display information materials in a mini exhibition a poster (1m by 1.22m) and a table (1.10 m x 60 cm) for publications, brochures etc. Please include a request for exhibition space on the registration form.