Travel Health Conference

The Travel Health Conference, organized by the SASTM will take place from 18th September to the 21st September 2014 at the Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel in Durban, South Africa. The conference will cover areas like Influenza vaccine update, Typhoid vaccines, HIV Vaccines, Vaccines in the elderly and the response to vaccination, Poliomyelitis, Meningitis, Dengue fever, Hepatitis, Voluntourism, Mapping malaria, STIs and the traveler, Respiratory disease, Diabetes mellitus and the risk assessment, Hypertension and high altitude travel, Travel dermatology, Enteric infections in travelers, Information technology and travel medicine and Rabies in Africa. Some prominent speakers include Marc Mendelson, Annelies Wilder Smith, Lee Baker, Lucille Blumberg, Albie de Frey, Eugene du Plessis, David Gillmer, Fraser Pirie, Melinda Suchard.