Russian Federation
WHO planned activities
- Hold two meetings of the High-level Working Group (HLWG) on TB (May and autumn 2017)
- Provide technical and management assistance:
- in developing an updated curriculum for TB-related components in pre- and postgraduate health education and training programmes for civil activists and volunteers, related technical information sources, a textbook and guidelines through HLWG’s thematic working group (TWG) mechanism;
- in developing and updating TB/HIV-related regulatory documents, technical information sources, management procedures and guidelines through the TWG mechanism; and
- to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in preparing for the Global Ministerial TB Conference in Moscow planned for 16–17 November 2017
- Hold two workshops on programmatic management of multidrug and extensively drug-resistant TB (M/XDR-TB) for mid–senior TB control managers
- Hold an M/XDR-TB management workshop for senior TB control managers/heads of TB chairs of medical universities
- Provide technical assistance in involving the new TB drug-use monitoring database in the WHO central database
Main partners
- Ministry of Health
- Federal Service for Surveillance in Health
- Federal Service for Sentence Execution
- Federal Service for Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-being
- Research Institute of Phtisiopulmonology of I.M. Sechenov First Moscow Medical University
- Central TB Research Institute
- Novosibirsk TB Research Institute
- Ural Research Institute of Phtisiopulmonology
- Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Phtisiopulmonology
- Central Research Institute of Health-care Organization and Informatics
- Moscow City Research and Practice Centre for TB Control
- Federal System for External Quality Assurance of Clinical Laboratory Studies
- Russian Society of Phtisiatrists
- International Organization of Migration
- Lilly MDR-TB Partnership
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies/Russian Red Cross Society
- Médecins Sans Frontières
- Partners in Health
- World Bank
- TB People