2nd International Zinc Conference "Bringing Zinc to the People"

The 2nd International Zinc Conference was held on 17-18 April 2005 entitled "Bringing Zinc to the People" at Sasakawa Auditorium in Dhaka. The Directorate General of Health Services, MOHFW, Government Of Bangladesh and ICDDR,B jointly organized the conference.

Around 260 participants took part in the two-day conference. Scientists and public health professionals from WHO Geneva, the International Rescue Committee, the Centre for International Health/University of Bergen, as well as from ICDDR,B,  delivered presentations related to zinc and scaling up zinc as a treatment for diarrhoea in the public sector. Participants from Government of Bangladesh, Tanzania, Nepal and the state of Tripura, India participated and shared their experience in the the conference. Paediatricians, representatives of private and public medical colleges and hospitals, national and international research centres and local pharmaceutical companies also provided their valuable input.

Several workshops were held during the two-day conference. Themes among them included the impact of zinc in the treatment of pneumonia; food-based supplementation; how zinc works & immunological aspects of zinc. These collected information from the participating organizations, the steps they have taken regarding the particular topic, their opinions, recommendations and ideas for further research options.

To see the summary of all the workshops click here.