Programme

11th National Tuberculosis Programme
Managers’ meeting
London, United Kingdom
2-3 July 2012

Monday, 2 July 2012

16:00- 18:00 Registration of participants

18:00- 20:00 Welcome reception

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Opening Session

09:00 – 09-10 Welcome note
Dr Masoud Dara
Dr Hans Kluge

09:10 – 09:20 Key note speaker –Vice-Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis – The role of Governments and Parliamentarians in combating TB

Mr Virendra Sharma
MP

09:20 – 09:30 Patient perspective Mr Paul Thorn

Session 1: Regional mechanisms for coordination and technical assistance and Post 2015 StopTB Strategy

09:30 – 09:45 Preliminary directions of the Post 2015 stop TB targets
Dr Masoud Dara

09:45 – 10:00 Discussion in plenary All participants

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 10:45 European TB Laboratory Initiative Dr Kristin Kremer

10:45 – 11:00 Discussion in plenary
All participants

11:00 – 11:15 The European Green Light Committee, TBTEAM and Interagency TB Coordination Committee
Dr Ogtay Gozalov

11:15 – 11:30 Discussion in Plenary
All participants

Session 2: Follow up from Wolfheze 2011

11:30 – 11:45 The role of partnership in TB control
Ms Sandra Roelofs, WHO Goodwill Ambassador

11:45 – 12:00 Survey of practices on childhood TB
Dr Valiantsin Rusovich

12:00 – 12:15 Minimum package for cross border TB control and care
Dr Pierpaolo de Colombani

12:30 – 13: 30 Lunch

Session 3: Efficient financing of TB services

13:30 – 14:00 The evolution of provider payment mechanisms for health services and specific principles for paying for TB services
Ms Nora Markova

14:00 – 14:30 Discussions in plenary
All participants

14:30 – 14:40 Introduction to the working groups
Dr Juan Tello

14:40 – 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 – 16:30 Discussion in working groups

Group A Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Dr Masoud Dara
Ms Nora Markova

Group B Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Turkey
Dr Juan Tello
Dr Pierpaolo de Colombani

Group C other countries
Dr Ibrahim Abubaker
Dr Gerard de Vries

16:30 – 17:30 Group Reporting
Group reporters

Discussion in Plenary
All participants

17:30 – 17:45 Closing remarks
Dr Hans Kluge
Dr Masoud Dara