Meetings and events
Regional meetings
Meeting of National
Managers of the Tuberculosis Control Programmes in the Eastern
Mediterranean Region
(Beirut, Lebanon, 28th-30th May 2001)
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08:30 - 09:00 |
Registration |
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09:00 – 09:30 |
Opening session |
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Address from the Regional Director, WHO/EMRO |
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Address from H.E. the Minister of Health, Lebanon |
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Introduction of participants |
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Election of officers |
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09:30 – 10:00 |
Coffee Break |
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10:00 – 10:20 |
Objectives and Methods of work of the meeting, & |
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Recommendations of the previous meeting [Dr Seita, EMRO] |
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ACTIONS TO DATE |
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10:20 – 10:30 |
Quick overview of the objectives and methods of the review exercise on actions to date [Dr Seita, EMRO] |
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10:30 – 12:30 |
Review on ACTION TO DATE in countries on the following 3 subjects [3 groups] |
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DOTS expansion & DOTS population coverage |
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Quality of DOTS activities [Case detection rate, treatment success rate, % smear positive among pulmonary TB cases, % smear positive among all TB cases ] |
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Status of DOTS ALL OVER [DOTS health sector coverage in all partners including non-MOH governmental sector, private sector and NGOs] |
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12:30 – 13:00 |
Presentation on group exercise [Plenary] |
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13:00 – 14:30 |
Lunch Break |
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14:30 – 15:00 |
Progress in two high burden countries |
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Pakistan [NTP manager] |
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Afghanistan [NTP manager] |
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VISION FOR THE FUTURE |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
STOP TB /EMRO: 5-Year Strategies and Plan [Dr Seita, STB/EMRO] |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
STOP TB /HQ: Strategies and Plan [Dr Lee, STB/HQ] |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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16:30 – 16:50 |
Integrated approach in communicable disease control [Dr Hallaj, DCD/EMRO] |
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16:50 – 17:10 |
Global DOTS Expansion Plan [Dr Raviglione, STB/HQ] |
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17:10 – 18:00 |
EMRO Initiative – Private Public Mix (PPM) |
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Regional situation [Dr Akhtar, EMRO] |
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PPM in Lebanon [Dr Saade, Lebanon] |
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PPM in Egypt [Dr Hanem, Egypt] |
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PPM in Syria – drug control [Dr Baghdadi, Syria] |
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ACTION FOR THE FUTURE – 1 |
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09:00 – 09:40 |
Issues in Quality of DOTS activities |
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Analysis on the Regional situation [Dr Seita, EMRO] |
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Why low case detection rate? [NTP manager] |
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Urban DOTS activities [NTP manager] |
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Discussions |
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09:40 – 10:30 |
Issues in Comprehensiveness of DOTS ALL OVER |
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Analysis on the Regional situation [Dr Hallaj, EMRO] |
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Inter-agency coordination committee [NTP manager, Pakistan] |
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Collaboration with Medical Schools [NTP manager, Lebanon] |
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Collaboration with HIV/AIDS programme [NTP manager] |
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Discussions |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 – 11:40 |
Setting national targets for TB control – prevalence, mortality and incidence of TB [Dr Dye, WHO/HQ] |
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Methodologies in setting TB prevalence, mortality and incidence |
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Provisional national estimations on prevalence, mortality and incidence |
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11:40 – 12:20 |
National experiences on tuberculosis surveys |
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Prevalence survey in Oman [NTP manager, Oman] |
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Experiences in other Regions [Dr Enarson, IUATLD] |
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Discussions |
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12:20 – 13:10 |
Strengthening of national reference laboratories and Promotion of national anti-TB drug resistance surveys |
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Brief regional overview on national reference laboratories [Dr Akhtar, STB/EMRO] |
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Role of National Reference Laboratories [Dr Urbanczik, IUATLD] |
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Promotion of drug resistance surveys in EMR [Dr Aziz, WHO/HQ] |
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13:10 – 14:30 |
Lunch Break |
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14:30 – 15:00 |
EMRO web site & DOTS FAX [Dr Capobianco, STB/EMRO] |
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FOCUSED ACTIVITIES |
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15:00 – 16:00 |
Sub-regional initiative sessions |
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Separate session for HATCI, MATCI (including Egypt), NETCI, GCC (with DOTS PLUS), & a group of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30 – 17:30 |
Individual meetings with high burden countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia and others |
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FOCUSED ACTIVITIES |
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09:00 – 09:30 |
Global Drug Facility [Dr Kumaresan, STB/HQ] |
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09:30 – 10:20 |
Presentation on Sub-Regional Initiatives |
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10:20 – 10:50 |
Coffee break |
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10:50 – 11:20 |
Overview of JPRM (2002 – 2003) [Dr Seita, EMRO/WHO] |
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11:20 – 15:00 |
Group work on JPRM development [3 groups] |
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Thursday, 31st May 2001 |
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09:00 – 10:30 |
Presentation on JPRM in 3 groups |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
EMRO Plan of Action for 2002 – 2003 [Dr Seita, EMRO] |
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11:30 – 12:30 |
Final discussions, recommendations and closing |
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