Our guest to the delegates’ corner is Dr Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, Director, Center for Disease Control, Islamic Republic of Iran and a member in the Iranian delegation to the Regional Committee.
My expectation from this session of the RC is
Paying more attention to HIV as the fastest growing epidemic among 6 regions of WHO
Putting the challenges of MDR-TB/XDRTB/IB/HIV and intensified case finding programmes for TB for the next RC session (we didn’t pay attention to challenge of TB in this meeting)
MDR/XDR-TB/ TB/HIV
Dengue fever
Challenging issues of NCD regional programme
Mental health and drug use challenges
HIV infection and drug use challenges and access to key population
NCD discussions
Pooled vaccine
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT)
Because all of these issues are important and challenging priorities on our agenda