WHO webinar on 2018 DR-TB guidelines with TB stakeholders

World Health Organization
May 12, 2019, 11:40 p.m.

The World Health Organization (WHO) Task Force to support country transition towards new recommendations for the treatment of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), created in August 2018, invites all interested TB stakeholders to participate in a webinar hosted by the WHO Global TB Program on 22 May 2019 from 14:00 to 15:30 (Central European Summer Time).

To register for the webinar, click here.
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The webinar will have two major objectives:

To present an update on the progress achieved by countries and key stakeholders in supporting the transition towards the new WHO DR-TB recommendations.
To address technical questions/concerns from TB stakeholders on the new WHO DR-TB recommendations. For the latter questions or concerns sould be submitted to [email protected] by EOB Friday 17 May 2019. As many questions/concerns as possible will be discussed within the time of the webinar.

Programme

14:00 – 14:05	Opening remarks (Tereza Kasaeva, Director WHO Global TB Program)
14:05 – 14:10	Global Fund progress update on budgeting and reallocation of funds to support transition (Mohammed Yassin, Global Fund)
14:10 – 14:15	Global Drug Facility update on progress in drug resistant TB management issues (Brenda Waning, Director GDF)
14:15 – 14:25	Update on regional progress on behalf of rGLCs (Norbert Ndjeka, Chair rGLC AFRO and Fraser Wares, Chair rGLC SEARO)
14:25 – 14:30	Update on WHO global activities to support transition (Kefas Samson, WHO)
14:30 – 14:40	Questions on Task Force update
14:40 – 15:30	Discussion of technical questions on the Consolidated DR-TB treatment guidelines (Holger Schünemann and Gerry Davies, co-chairs of the Guideline Development Group WHO DR-TB 2018 guidelines update), including follow-up questions and some selected from the chat
15:30	Closing remarks (Tereza Kasaeva, Director WHO Global TB Program)