{"id":20531,"date":"2022-10-05T16:43:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilts.org\/?post_type=event&p=20531"},"modified":"2023-02-13T09:56:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T08:56:46","slug":"real-africa-challenges-for-liver-transplantation-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.ilts.org\/events\/real-africa-challenges-for-liver-transplantation-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"1st REAL Africa – Challenges for Liver Transplantation in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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REAL Africa<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Challenges for Liver Transplantation in Africa<\/em><\/h1>\n

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December 15, 2022<\/h2>\n

17:00 CET<\/h2>\n

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In collaboration with the African Society of Organ Transplantation <\/a>(ASOT).<\/em><\/p>\n

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REGISTER NOW<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Regional Expansion Advanced Learning (REAL)<\/a> project is an initiative by the ILTS Education Committee to reach out to the African region through educational activities. Through educational events such as the REAL webinars, we will be inviting eminent speakers in the field of liver transplantation to share their experience with the liver transplant community in the African region, with the hope to enhance the partnership with the local LT community to build knowledge and skills in this area.<\/p>\n

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Objectives<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
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  • To increase the awareness of liver transplantation activity in Africa and to encourage healthcare workers in different specialties related to LTX to join different ILTS ACTIVITIES\/ILTS membership<\/li>\n
  • To conduct educational programs through online zoom webinars every 3 months and state-of-the-art lectures twice yearly<\/li>\n
  • To put the spotlight on peculiar medical challenges in the continent (e.g. HIV, TB, Malaria, HBV, and HCV)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Agenda<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
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    • Introduction of the REAL Webinar Initiative<\/strong> \u2013 Iman Fawzy Montasser and Wendy Spearman<\/li>\n
    • HCV elimination and the Egyptian experience: the impact on liver transplantation<\/strong> \u2013 Wahid Doss<\/li>\n
    • Challenges and Solutions to Organ donation in Africa<\/strong> \u2013 David Thomson<\/li>\n
    • Q&A<\/strong> \u2013 hosted by moderators Marina Berenguer and Mohamed Rela<\/li>\n
    • Closing Remarks<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The REAL initiative works to bring educational activities to healthcare professionals all over the world and respond to the needs of specific geographical regions. As part of this, the first ILTS REAL Africa webinar will take place on December 15, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20133,"featured_media":20588,"template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"event-venue":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.ilts.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/event\/20531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.ilts.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.ilts.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.ilts.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/20133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.ilts.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/20588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.ilts.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-venue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.ilts.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/event-venue?post=20531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}