2015 Union World Conference on Lung Health, Cape Town, South Africa
Date:
December 4, 2015
Time: 17h15-18h30
India contributes more than a quarter of the global cohort of TB patients
and ranks first among the 27 MDR-TB high-burden countries. If the targets
of the END TB strategy are to be reached, significant improvements and
radical changes are urgently needed. Universal access to new and existing
diagnostics is moving slowly, novel treatment modalities for MDR-TB are
not being offered (e.g shorter regimens, new drugs), patient-centered
approaches have not been defined as yet and there is a lack of innovation
in the R&D agenda despite India’s research and funding
potential. The Indian civil society can play an important catalyst for
speeding up the ‘end of TB’ in the country.
Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign
and
Treatment Action Group
cordially invite attendees of the 46th Union World Conference on Lung
Health being held in Cape Town, 2-6th Dec 2015 to participate in and
deliberate at our Symposium on active engagement of civil society in
achieving goals of the End TB strategy in India. The symposium will focus
on new developments and policy changes in India’s national TB
program, implementation gaps, the need for further research and
development and the need for access to newer and better dugs and
diagnostics. The symposium will attempt to find answers to some of the
questions that civil society continue to grapple with such as:
Chairpersons
Jennifer Furin, Tuberculosis Research Unit, Case Western Reserve
University
Grania Brigden, Médecins Sans Frontières
Access Campaign
Speakers
Zarir F Udwadia, Hinduja Hospital
Mike Frick, Treatment Action
Group
Tsetan Dorji Sadutshang, Tibetan Delek Hospital
Homa
Mansoor, Médecins Sans Frontières
Elizabeth Selhore,
Sahara Aalhad
For more details, please contact:
Petros Isaakidis @ [email protected] /
+91-9930534211
Shailly Gupta @ [email protected] / +91-9899976108