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-TB New 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 TeamChairperson: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