Essentials of infectious diseases: a focus on tropical infections, HIV&TB

The course equips clinicians with practical, evidence-based strategies for diagnosing and managing high-burden infectious diseases, particularly in resource-limited and tropical settings. It integrates focused learning on tropical infections, including melioidosis, brucellosis, neuroinfections, and leishmaniasis, with in-depth coverage of HIV and tuberculosis, addressing diagnostic algorithms, case-based management, co-infections, evolving antiretroviral therapy paradigms, drug-resistant TB, and HIV-associated comorbidities through interactive, real-world clinical discussions led by national and international experts.

Intended audience: 

The course is open to ID and CM professionals, internal medicine physicians, general practitioners, pulmonologists,  paediatricians, public health experts, HIV and TB program officers and residents and fellows in related specialities.

Objectives:

• Apply a systematic clinical approach to undifferentiated febrile illnesses in the tropics
• Diagnose and manage complex tropical infections such as melioidosis, brucellosis, leishmaniasis, and neuroinfectious diseases
• Interpret syndromic clues in GI and pulmonary presentations of tropical and HIV-associated infections
• Choose and time antiretroviral regimens in patients with TB and opportunistic infections
• Design individualised treatment plans for MDR/XDR TB using the latest guidelines
• Identify and manage HIV drug resistance in clinical practice
• Integrate preventive tools like PrEP, PEP, and immunisation in HIV care
• Enhance diagnostic and therapeutic confidence through case-based discussions and interactive Q&A