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