IVCC & partners at ASTMH 2024

IVCC will participate at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine (ASTMH) in New Orelans, USA, taking place between 13th and 17th November.

Visit our booth (#516) to find out our latest news and details about our product development pipeline.

Along with our partners, we look forward to contributing insights and progress on expanding the vector control toolbox and the importance of combining tools to achieve malaria elimination.

IVCC CEO, Justin McBeath will participate in the MMV and TDR sponsored scientific symposium on Friday, 15 November from 7:00–8:45 AM in Room 395/396 of the New Orleans Convention Center. It is held in conjunction with the 2024 ASTMH Annual Meeting. ‘Malaria prevention: A trilogy of tools to accelerate to zero deaths‘ will explore how new insecticides, expanded chemoprevention and the first generation of vaccines offer a golden opportunity to bolster the fight against malaria.

Co-chairs: John Reeder, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Switzerland and George Jagoe, MMV, Switzerland.

Moderator: Daniel Ngamije Madandi, WHO Global Malaria Programme, Switzerland

• The development and rollout of the R21 vaccine and Oxford University’s pipeline of vaccines: Adrian Hill, Jenner Institute, UK
• Science behind the current vaccines, the impact of those currently in use and what’s coming down the pipeline in terms of next-gen vaccines: Ashley Birkett, PATH, USA
• Preventive medicines: Cristina Donini, MMV, Switzerland
• Optimizing delivery and uptake of seasonal malaria chemoprevention and malaria vaccines: Fatimata Bintou Sall, University Iba Der Thiam Thies, Senegal
• Vector control: Justin McBeath, Innovative Vector Control Consortium, UK
• The country perspective on integration of prevention tools: Keziah Malm, National Malaria Elimination Programme, Ghana
• Gender-sensitive approaches to malaria prevention: Margaret Gyapong, Institute of Health Research at the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana
• Implementation research for malaria prevention tools: Seydou Doumbia, University of Sciences, Techniques, and Technology of Bamako, Mali

IVCC is hosting a sponsored symposium to present the ‘Results from Large-Scale Trials of the Sarabi Attractive Targeted Sugar Bait to Reduce Malaria Burden in Kenya, Mali and Zambia’. It takes place on Friday, 15 November from 7:00 to 8:45 in Room 343/344 (third floor) of the New Orleans Convention Center. The sponsored symposium, held in conjunction with the ASTMH annual meeting and organised in partnership with PATH, will include insights from ATSB project partners* on the entomological and epidemiological impact evaluation of the ATSB® (Attractive Targeted Sugar Baits). Participants include:

Angela Harris, Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC), UK and Busiku Hamainza, of the Zambia Health Ministry will co-chair the session. Speakers include:

• Sarah Staedke, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine: The impact of ATSB deployment in Western Kenya
• Daniel McDermott, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine: ATSB deployment in Western Kenya
• Caroline Ogwang, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Global Health Research: The epidemiologic impact of ATSB deployment in Western Kenya
• Eric Ochomo, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Global Health Research: The entomologic impact of ATSB deployment in Western Kenya
• Seydou Doumbia, University of Sciences, Techniques, and Technology of Bamako: The impact of ATSB deployment in Mali
• Mahamadou Toure, University of Sciences, Techniques, and Technology of Bamako: ATSB deployment in Mali
• Sophie Sarrassat, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: The epidemiologic impact of ATSB deployment in Mali
• Immo Kleinschmidt, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: The epidemiologic impact of ATSB deployment in Mali
• Mohamed Traore, University of Sciences, Techniques, and Technology of Bamako: The entomologic impact of ATSB deployment in Mali
• Gunter Muller, University of Sciences, Techniques, and Technology of Bamako: The entomologic impact of ATSB deployment in Mali
• Megan Littrell, PATH: The impact of ATSB deployment in Zambia
• Erica Orange, PATH: ATSB deployment in Zambia
• Ruth Ashton, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine: The epidemiologic impact of ATSB deployment in Zambia
• Javan Chanda, PATH: The entomologic impact of ATSB deployment in Zambia

For more on the ATSB project, you can also attend presentations and posters outside of the sponsored symposium. A selection are highlighted below. Full details of all ATSB-related presentations visit the scientific program.

On Thursday November 14, 12:00 – 1:45 Convention Center – Hall I-1 [1st Floor]:

• #6452 Community acceptability of attractive targeted sugar baits in a cluster randomized controlled trial in western Kenya, Caroline Ogwang, KEMRI
• #6175 Time to loss of physical integrity of attractive targeted sugar bait (ATSB) stations in western province, Zambia: a survival analysis, Refilwe Karabo, Tulane University
• #6396 Attractive targeted sugar baits for malaria control in western Kenya (ATSB-Kenya): enrollment characteristics of cohort children and households, Alice Kamau, LSTM

On Friday November 15, 11:00 – 11:15, Convention Center – Room 393/394 [3rd floor]:

• Effect of Attractive Targeted Sugar Baits (ATSBs) on malaria incidence in children in Western Kenya: a cluster-randomized controlled trial, Caroline Ogwang, KEMRI

On Friday November 15, 12:00 – 12:45, Convention Center – Hall I-1 [1st Floor]:

• #7027 Deployment of attractive targeted sugar baits in western Zambia: installation, monitoring, removal, and disposal procedures during a phase III cluster randomized control trial, Erica Orange, PATH

On Saturday November 16, 11:00 – 12:45, Convention Center – Hall I-1 [1st Floor]:

• # 8030 Cost and cost-effectiveness of attractive targeted sugar baits (ATSB): cluster randomized control trials (cRCT) in Zambia, Kenya, and Mali, Brooke Mancuso, Tulane University
• #8020 Community acceptance of a novel malaria intervention, ATSB stations, in the context of the ATSB Zambia phase III trial, Erica Orange, PATH

On Saturday November 16, 6:00 – 6:45, Convention Center – Room 353 [3rd Floor]:

• Entomological effects of attractive targeted sugar bait station deployment in western Zambia: vector surveillance findings from a two-arm cluster randomized phase III trial, Javan Chanda, PATH

IVCC is also co-hosting an invitation-only workshop with Innovation to Impact (I2I) on Wednesday, 13th November, from 15:30 to 19:00. Co-hosted by Rosemary Lees (I2I) and Jason Richardson (IVCC), this workshop will address whether our current methods for evaluating Spatial Repellents (SR)—now under review by the Vector Control Advisory Group (VCAG)—are appropriate and sufficiently validated to produce robust evidence. In preparation, we invite readers to share their insights on the current understanding of SR efficacy and optimal testing methods via a pre-meeting poll (link here). Although attendance is by invitation, the organizers are committed to sharing the workshop’s outcomes with interested stakeholders.

* ATSB Project partners are: Westham Co, IVCC, PATH, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, University of Science, Technique and Technology of Bamako.

Please visit the ASTMH event website for more information.