Belarus

On 23 March representatives from the Ministry of Health, WHO, and the UNDP implementing the Global Fund Grant will host a press conference to give the latest updates on the TB control programme in Belarus. The representatives will also answer questions from journalists and give short television interviews.

UNDP implementing the Global Fund Grant in Belarus on TB control has initiated the informational campaign "Please send wishes for recovery to a TB patient" among the volunteers of the Belarusian Red Cross. Two billboards will be placed in the city of Minsk designed in line with the STOP TB partnership concept "Faces of TB".

The national TB programme is organizing an outreach on preventive diagnostics for TB at marketplaces in the regional cities with the mobile digital X-ray machine (fluorography). Volunteers will distribute informational materials on TB to people visiting the markets.