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Meeting of National Managers of the Tuberculosis Control Programmes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
(Rabat, Morocco, 17th-19th June 2003)

Programme

Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday

Tuesday, 17th June 2003

08:30 - 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 09:30

Opening session

Message from Dr Hussein A. Gezairy, Regional Director, WHO/EMRO

Address by H.E. Dr Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah, the Minister of Health, Morocco

Introduction of participants

Election of officers

09:30 – 10:00

Coffee Break

Progress to date: Are we going to achieve the global targets on time?

10:00 – 10:30

Case detection rate – Global situation, Dr A.Seita, WHO/EMRO   

10:30 – 10:40

Quick overview of the objectives and methods of the group works on progress in TB control, Dr S Baghdadi, STB/EMRO

10:40 – 11:40

Group work: Review on whether countries are to achieve the global targets on time along the following indicators:

Case notifications in 2002, treatment outcome in 2001, case detection and treatment success rates

11:40 – 12:20

Group presentation and plenary discussions 
Group 1 - Group 2 - Group 3 - Group 4

12:20 – 13:00

Break

TB burden estimation
Country exercises

13:00 – 13:20 

Recent estimations and EMR exercise, Dr J.Jabbour, STB/HQ

13:20 – 13:40

Country exercise – 1: Iran, NTP manager of Iran

13:40 – 14:00

Country exercise – 2: Syria, NTP manager of Syria

Surveillance

14:00 – 14:20

Implementation of STAG recommendations, Dr J Jabbour, STB/EMRO

14:20 – 14:40

Moving a head: nominal registration and district-based registration, Dr S Baghdadi, STB/EMRO

14:40 – 15:00

Country experience on managing district reports – Yemen, NTP manager of Yemen

15:00 – 15:30

Break

Programme performance

Laboratory network development

15:30 – 15:50

Implementation of STAG recommendations, Dr S Baghdadi, STB/EMRO

15:50 – 16:10

Country experience on laboratory network and quality assurance Sudan
NTP manage of Sudan

16:10 – 16:30

Country experience on anti-TB drug resistance surveillance Lebanon
NTP manager of Lebanon

Inter-sectoral collaboration

16:30 – 16:50

Implementation of STAG recommendations, 
Dr L Gillini, STB/EMRO

16:50 – 17:10

Fund for Innovative DOTS Expansion through Local Initiatives to Stop TB (FIDELIS)
Dr D Enarson, IUATLD

17:10 – 17:30

Country plan on PPM - Egypt, 
NTP manager of Egypt

 

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Wednesday, 18th June 2003 

DOTS expansion 

09:00 – 09:10

Implementation of STAG recommendations, 
Dr A Seita, STB/EMRO

09:10 – 09:30

Pakistan, 
NTP manager of Pakistan

09:30 – 09:50

Afghanistan, 
NTP manager of Afghanistan

Tuberculosis control and DOTS in Iraq

09:50 – 10:10

Situation in Iraq: Iraq, 
NTP manager of Iraq

Partnership 

10:10 – 10:20

Implementation of STAG recommendations, 
Dr A Seita,

10:20 – 10:40

Country experience on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, southern part of Sudan

10:40 – 11:00

Country experience on the Global TB Drug Facility (GDF): Somalia

11:00 – 11:30

Break

TB & HIV/AIDS 

11:30 – 11:50

Regional situation on TB & HIV, 
Dr L Gillini, STB/EMRO

11:50 – 12:10

Country experience: Somalia: 
Dr A Tonelli

12:10 – 12:30

Country experience: Djibouti: 
NTP manager of Djibouti

Operational Research 

12:30 – 12:50

Implementation of STAG recommendations, 
Dr A Bassili, TDR/EMRO

12:50 – 13:10

Country experience: Pakistan NGO: 

13:10 – 13:50

Break

National plans to address gaps: Joint Programme Review Exercise (JPRM) 2004 – 2005  

13:50 – 14:00

Quick overview of the objectives and methods of the group works on addressing the gaps and preparing the plan (JPRM), 
Dr A Seita, STB/EMRO

14:00 – 16:00

Group work: address the gaps and prepare the plan

 

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Thursday, 19th June 2003

Practical approach to Lung Health (PAL) 

09:00 – 09:30

PAL strategies, 
Dr S Ottmani, STB/WHO

09:30 – 10:00

Country experience: Morocco: 
NTP manager of Morocco

National plans to address gaps: Joint Programme Review Exercise (JPRM) 2004 – 2005 

10:00 – 11:30

Group work (JPRM)-continue: address the gaps and prepare the plan

11:30 – 12:00

Break

12:00 – 13:00

Final discussions, recommendations development

13:00

Closing session

 

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