Reaching out to find, treat and cure more TB patients and address their comorbidities
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The 18th Wolfheze Workshop and 15th WHO European Region Meeting of National TB Programme Managers focused on increasing TB patient outreach as a means to treat and cure more patients with TB and comorbidities.
Throughout the Workshop and Meeting, extensive debates covered a wide variety of topics, including:
- country progress in the adaptation and implementation of the Tuberculosis action plan for the WHO European Region 2016–2020, with a focus on migrants;
- TB/HIV collaborative activities;
- latent TB infection;
- enhancing the quality of people-centred care with a focus on the patient experience;
- monitoring and managing new drugs and active drug safety;
- digital health; and
- preparations for the first WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending TB in the Sustainable Development Era, to be held in November 2017 in Moscow, Russian Federation.