TravelSafe Clinic, India Now Joins the Elite Asia Pacific Travel Health Society – Asia’s Premier Travel Medicine Organization

Chandigarh, India, November 22, 2013 --(PR.com)-- The main activities of the APTHS are through its website, ad-hoc travel medicine courses/meetings in the region, and its biennial conferences. The society was formed in 2000, during the Bali APTHC3, in response to the growing regional interest in travel medicine and to act as a focal point to channel regional initiatives and energies. This newly developing entity of travel medicine in Asia has already seen successful meetings focusing on travelers health.

APTHC 2012 in Singapore was a highly successful event and the Society is hard at work to ensure that the next Congress in 2014 will be even better. The Asia Pacific Travel Health Society (APTHS) is committed to the promotion of healthy and safe travel to and within the Asia Pacific Region and beyond. They work closely with the International Society of Travel Medicine and many national travel medicine societies in the Asia Pacific region to promote and advocate travel health. The focus is on preventive and curative medicine within many specialties and areas of interest such as:

Tropical medicine
Infectious diseases
Public health and epidemiology
Vaccinology
Emerging infections, outbreak investigations and response
Malariology
Primary health care
Military, refugee and migration medicine
Medical tourism
Evacuation and repatriation of travellers
High altitude
Climate change and environmental medicine
Women and travel
Mental health and travel

APTHS is committed to organizing regional conferences every two years in order to foster travel medicine in the Asia Pacific region.

TravelSafe Clinic is India’s first certified, branded & authoritative multi-city travel health clinic. Their Aim is to create a World Class, state of the art travel health clinic, providing up-to-date advice to make International travel safe and healthy while avoiding common preventable diseases. They have trained physicians and paramedical staff to help deal with all your travel health questions. TravelSafe clinics are located in Mohali (Chandigarh), Noida (National Capital Region, Delhi) & Mumbai. They are the only travel clinic to be members of all the elite professional travel health organizations in the world including International Society for Travel Medicine (ISTM), American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH), International Association for Medical Assistance to Travelers (IAMAT), and British & Global Travel Health Association (BGTHA) . They are also the only organization from India to have presented data on the safety & tolerability of Stamaril (Yellow Fever Vaccine) in Indian population at various International conferences. Now in another first for India, they also provide onsite location visit to International travelers who are members of IAMAT or Allen Housecall Medical services.