DOTS Expansion Working Group Meeting

Engaging Professional Associations in TB Control

Paris, 15 October 2008

Dr J.M. Chakaya

Chair, DEWG

W O R K I N G G R O U P SW O R K I N G G R O U P S

Global Drug FacilityCoordinating Board

Partnership Secretariat

WHO Strategic and Technical

Advisory Group

DOTS expansion

TB/HIV MDR-TBNew TB

Vaccines

New TB Diagnostics

New TB Drugs

Advocacy, Communications and Social Mobilization Working Group

GLOBAL PARTNERS' FORUM

STRUCTURE OF THE STOP TB PARTNERSHIP

DOTS Expansion

Working Group (DEWG)

Chairperson:Dr Jeremiah Chakaya, Kenya

Secretariat: (WHO/HQ Staff)Dr Léopold BlancDr Malgosia GrzemskaMs Annemieke Brands

Members: 22 High TB Burden Countries (HBC), Technical and Financial agencies, Experts, Community representatives

PPM DOTS Subgroup

Chairperson:Dr Phil Hopewell, USA

Secretariat: (WHO/HQ Staff)Dr Mukund UplekarDr Knut LönnrothDr Bethollet KaboruMs Monica Yesudian

Members: Technical and Financial Agencies, National Programme Managers, Academicians, Private Sectors and Community Representatives

Childhood TB Subgroup

Chairperson:Dr Robert Gie, South Africa

Secretariat: (WHO/HQ Staff)Dr Malgosia Grzemska

Members: WHO, IUATLD, NIH, CDC, USAID, IPA, Representatives of Academic and Research Institutes and of HBC, Paediatricians in Clinical Practice

DEWG Core Team

Chairperson:Dr Jeremiah Chakaya, Kenya

Secretariat: (WHO/HQ staff)Dr Léopold BlancDr Malgosia Grzemska Ms Annemieke Brands

Members: KNCV, The Union, WHO, Chairs of sub-groups, USAID, CDC, GDF, NORAD/LHL, Country Representatives, Community Representatives

Laboratory Strengthening

Capacity Subgroup (now included into Global Laboratory

Initiative together with the SRLN & proposed to become an independent

working group)Chairperson:Dr John Ridderhof, USA

Secretariat: (WHO/HQ Staff)Dr Karin Weyer

Members: Supranational Reference Laboratory Network (SRLN), Laboratory Experts

TB and Poverty Subgroup

Chairperson:Ms Bertha Nhlema Simwaka, Malawi

Secretariat: Dr Bertie Squire, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Members: World Bank, WHO, Rockefeller Foundation, IUATLD, KNCV, LSTM, NTP Managers, NGOs engaged in TB and Poverty activities

Structure of the

DOTS Expansion Working Group

DEWG Meeting- Purpose

To mobilize professional associations to help foster effective collaboration between

national TB programmes and private health care providers.

• To sensitize leaders of professional associations on TB control to the Stop TB Strategy and ISTC.

• To share experiences on engagement of professional associations in TB control in diverse country settings.

• To provide a platform for exchange of ideas between national TB programme managers and leaders of professional associations for implementing ISTC.

• To discuss ways to enable professional associations to contribute to national and global efforts to control TB.

Objectives