Transcript ppt - Stop TB Partnership

DOTS Expansion Working
Group Meeting
Engaging Professional Associations
in TB Control
Paris, 15 October 2008
Dr J.M. Chakaya
Chair, DEWG
STRUCTURE OF THE STOP TB PARTNERSHIP
GLOBAL PARTNERS' FORUM
Coordinating Board
Partnership
Secretariat
Global Drug Facility
W O R K I N
DOTS
expansion
TB/HIV
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MDR-TB
G R
New TB
Vaccines
WHO Strategic and
Technical
Advisory Group
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P
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New TB
Diagnostics
Advocacy, Communications and Social Mobilization Working Group
New TB
Drugs
Structure of the
DOTS Expansion Working Group
DOTS Expansion
Working Group (DEWG)
Chairperson:
Dr Jeremiah Chakaya, Kenya
Secretariat: (WHO/HQ Staff)
Dr Léopold Blanc
Dr Malgosia Grzemska
Ms Annemieke Brands
Members: 22 High TB Burden Countries
(HBC), Technical and Financial agencies,
Experts, Community representatives
Laboratory
Strengthening
Capacity Subgroup
(now included into
Global Laboratory
Initiative together with
the SRLN & proposed to
become an independent
working group)
Chairperson:
Dr John Ridderhof, USA
Secretariat: (WHO/HQ Staff)
Dr Karin Weyer
Members:
Supranational Reference
Laboratory Network (SRLN),
Laboratory Experts
PPM DOTS
Subgroup
Chairperson:
Dr Phil Hopewell, USA
Secretariat: (WHO/HQ Staff)
Dr Mukund Uplekar
Dr Knut Lönnroth
Dr Bethollet Kaboru
Ms Monica Yesudian
Members:
Technical and Financial
Agencies, National
Programme Managers,
Academicians, Private
Sectors and Community
Representatives
DEWG Core Team
Chairperson:
Dr Jeremiah Chakaya, Kenya
Secretariat: (WHO/HQ staff)
Dr Léopold Blanc
Dr Malgosia Grzemska
Ms Annemieke Brands
Members:
KNCV, The Union, WHO, Chairs of sub-groups,
USAID, CDC, GDF, NORAD/LHL, Country
Representatives, Community Representatives
Childhood TB
Subgroup
Chairperson:
Dr Robert Gie, South Africa
Secretariat: (WHO/HQ Staff)
Dr Malgosia Grzemska
Members:
WHO, IUATLD, NIH, CDC,
USAID, IPA, Representatives
of Academic and Research
Institutes and of HBC,
Paediatricians in Clinical
Practice
TB and Poverty
Subgroup
Chairperson:
Ms Bertha Nhlema Simwaka,
Malawi
Secretariat: Dr Bertie Squire,
Liverpool School of Tropical
Medicine, United Kingdom
Members:
World Bank, WHO, Rockefeller
Foundation, IUATLD, KNCV,
LSTM, NTP Managers, NGOs
engaged in TB and Poverty
activities
DEWG Meeting- Purpose
To mobilize professional associations to help
foster effective collaboration between
national TB programmes and private health
care providers.
Objectives
• To sensitize leaders of professional
associations on TB control to the Stop TB
Strategy and ISTC.
• To share experiences on engagement of
professional associations in TB control in
diverse country settings.
• To provide a platform for exchange of
ideas between national TB programme
managers and leaders of professional
associations for implementing ISTC.
• To discuss ways to enable professional
associations to contribute to national and
global efforts to control TB.