ESID organizes its 16^th Biennal meeting in Prague, from 29^th October to 1^st November 2014.
As always, a great opportunity to meet world-known experts and to hear about last updates in PID field!

More info at their website: http://www2.kenes.com/esid2014/Pages/Home.aspx

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Since 2011, World PI Week raises awareness of the burden of primary immunodeficiency diseases and stimulates efforts to improve the recognition, diagnosis, treatment and the quality of life for people with PI world-wide. World PI Week offers a crucial, visible opportunity to inform and educate health policy-makers, schools and families, and the general public about primary immunodeficiencies to drive the earliest possible diagnosis and optimal treatment. Under the slogan TEST. DIAGNOSE.TREAT, every year around 30 countries participate in World PI Week with an abundance of events taking place around the world. For more information, visit www.worldpiweek.org

On this occasion we encourage African colleagues to seize this opportunity and actively participate in the event. You may choose any of the following suggestions to help in planning the event:

• Organize a community walk, a run, or a bike ride “On the Move for PI”
• Organize the 10 warning signs test to encourage testing by a physician
• Hang posters with the PI Week logo in your clinic’s waiting room, and schools
• Set up education sessions for patients, families, schools and other health care professionals
• Produce and distribute buttons, sports flasks, t-shirts etc. with the PI logo on it
• Send out emails, distribute flyers
• Start a Facebook or Twitter group with a challenge to detect PI
• Start a blog about your PI event and ask colleagues to contribute to it

Be creative about raising awareness of “PI”!

ALLSA CONGRESS 2014
Congress Secretariat
Londocor Event Management
Yvonne Dias Fernandes
Tel: +27 (0) 11 954 5753  Fax: +27 (0) 86 592 3390
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1st Announcement & Call for Abstracts
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Programme
Recueil des résumés

J Clin Immunol. 2013 Aug;33(6):1078-87

Bousfiha AA, Jeddane L, Ailal F, Al Herz W, Conley ME, Cunningham-Rundles C, Etzioni A, Fischer A, Franco JL, Geha RS, Hammarström L, Nonoyama S, Ochs HD, Roifman CM, Seger R, Tang ML, Puck JM, Chapel H, Notarangelo LD, Casanova JL.

Abstract

The number of genetically defined Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (PID) has increased exponentially, especially in the past decade. The biennial classification published by the IUIS PID expert committee is therefore quickly expanding, providing valuable information regarding the disease-causing genotypes, the immunological anomalies, and the associated clinical features of PIDs. These are grouped in eight, somewhat overlapping, categories of immune dysfunction. However, based on this immunological classification, the diagnosis of a specific PID from the clinician's observation of an individual clinical and/or immunological phenotype remains difficult, especially for non-PID specialists. The purpose of this work is to suggest a phenotypic classification that forms the basis for diagnostic trees, leading the physician to particular groups of PIDs, starting from clinical features and combining routine immunological investigations along the way. We present 8 colored diagnostic figures that correspond to the 8 PID groups in the IUIS Classification, including all the PIDs cited in the 2011 update of the IUIS classification and most of those reported since.

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Photo from the 3d ASID Congress : Sun City, South Africa:  5 – 9 June 2013. The new ASID Board with Jose Drabwell, IPOPI President, presenting the 4th ASID Congress: Algiers May 2013. The new ASID President, Prof. Rachida Boukari, from Algeria, sits on the right. The Past-President, Dr Monika Esser, is standing to her left.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Warm Greetings !

We now have just under a month to go before our ASID III Congress – Ithemba Le Afrika in South Africa. There has been a great deal of activity in our organizing committee in the past months and we look forward to seeing many old and new friends of the PID community.

Sponsorships have been allocated and are being communicated.

I would like to ask you to take advantage of the exciting program offered and to join us at the following talks, initiatives and meetings and we look forward to a great celebration dinner.E-posters will also be available in the viewing venue and all posters will have a short oral presentation. In the program you will find details on :

5^TH ASID SCHOOL OF PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY
INTRODUCTION TO THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
ASID SCHOOL OF RESEARCH
THE AFRICAN PID NETWORK SYMPOSIUM
ASID - IPOPI SESSION
PID TRADE SYMPOSIA
ASID AGM
AND KEEP TRACK OF ALL ASID ACTIVITIES www.ithembaleafrika.com

With best regards

Dr Monika Esser
Chairperson ASID