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Eleventh Meeting of National Tuberculosis Programme Managers in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
(Cairo, Egypt, 4-6 September 2006)

Provisional programme

Monday, 4 September 2006

09:30–10:00

Registration

 

 

10:00–10:30

Opening Session : 

  • Address by Dr Hussein A. Gezairy, Regional Director, WHO/EMRO

  • Objective of the meeting:

  • Meeting Question: “ Have we achieved the global targets? If not why we failed and how to achieve them promptly?”



Moderated by

Dr Z. Hallaj

 

Dr Seita

10:30 –11:00

Coffee Break  

 


SESSION 1: KEY POINTS IN RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION OF THE MEETING 
 

11:00–11:45

Global issues in TB control and new Stop TB strategy

 

Dr Raviglione

Dr Marcos  

11:45–12:15

Progress towards the global targets and issues 

Dr Dye

12:15–12:30

Global TB Drug Facility 

Mr Thomas

12:30–12:45

International standards of tuberculosis care

Dr Baghdadi 

12:45–13:00

Regional situation and quality of DOTS 

 

Dr Seita 

13:00–14:00

Coffee Break  

 


SESSION 2 : WHY OUR CASE DETECTION IS LOW?

14:00–14:20

Introduction on country-group exercise

 

Dr Seita and

Dr Baghdadi

14:20–15:50

Country-Group Work : Exercise 1

  • Political commitment for sustainable financing & partnership

  • Case detection through quality-assured bacteriology

  • Suspect management

  • Contacts tracing (high risk group)

  • Public-public and public-private mix approach and international standard of tuberculosis care

  • Monitoring and evaluation (surveillance) system

  • Impact measurement

  • Advocacy, communication and social mobilization

15:50–16:20

Coffee Break

 

16:20–17:20

Country-Group work: Exercise 2

 

 

Tuesday, 5 September 2006


SESSION 3: REVIEW OF CASE DETECTION 
 

09:00-09:30

Political commitment for sustainable financing & partnership
Group work summary presentation

Country Experience
Regional implication

Regional Stop TB partnership

 

 

Focal Point-Iran
Afghanistan
Dr Seita
 Dr Karam Shah

 

09:30–10:15

Case detection through quality-assured bacteriology
Group work summary presentation
Quality assurance system
Regional laboratory strategy
 

 

 

Focal Point-Yemen
Dr Mushira

Dr Baghdadi
10:15-11:00

Suspect management
Group work summary presentation
Country experience
Regional implication - Discussions

 

Focal Point-Kuwait
Jordan
Dr Bassili

Dr Seita 
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break   
11:30-12:15

Contacts tracing (high risk group)
Group work summary presentation
Country experience
Regional implication - Discussions  

 

Focal Point-Oman
Syria
Dr Baghdadi 
12:15-13:15

Public-public, public-private mix approach
Group work summary presentation
FIDELIS project
Operational research findings
Global guidelines and Regional approach on PPM
 

 

Focal Point-Lebanon
Pakistan
Dr Bassili
Dr Baghdadi

13:15-14:15

Coffee Break 

  
14:15-15:15

Monitoring and evaluation (surveillance) system
Group work summary presentation
Country experience
Regional implication - Discussions
 

 

Focal Point-Jordan
Egypt
Dr Bassili 
15:15-16:00

Advocacy, communication & social mobilization

Group work summary presentation                                             Rotary club activities

Country experience – BDN                                                      

Regional implication – Discussion

 

Focal Point-Sudan
Dr Lotfy
Pakistan
Ms Ibrahim 
16:00-16:30

Coffee Break 

  


SESSION 4: SPECIFIC SITUATIONS IN THE REGION

 

16:30-17:00

Tuberculosis in Complex Emergency/Lebanon                             Global guidelines & regional implication                  

 

Dr Mtanious
Dr Ottmani and
Dr Seita
 

17:00-17:30

HIV/TB collaboration
HIV/TB care in concentrated epidemic
Regional implication

 

Wednesday, 6 September 2006

 


SESSION 3: REVIEW OF CASE DETECTION (Cont’d)

 

09:00-10:30

Impact measurement
Group work summary presentation

 

Focal Point-Afghanistan

Methods for impact measurement

 Dr Dye

Tuberculin survey in Somalia

 Dr Munim

Yemen case study

Yemen
Regional implication - Discussion                  Dr Seita and Dr Bassili

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break  

 


SESSION 5: WAY-FORWARD: HOW TO ACHIEVE THE TARGETS PROMPTLY

 

11:00-11:30

Regional Strategic Plan

 

Dr Seita

11:30-13:00

Exercise: planning and budgeting tool introduction

Country Examples: Afghanistan and Somalia 

 

Ms Pantoja  

(Tool -Excel File)

13:00-14:00

Coffee Break 

 

14:00-15:00

Recommendations and Closing Session