Regional Meeting of National TB Programme Managers

The Meeting of the National TB Programme Managers of the Region, together with representatives from several technical and development partner organizations, and WHO collaborating centres in the Region, held at the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, concluded on 5 November 2009. Following an in-depth review of progress, challenges and gaps in implementing the Stop TB strategy in Region as a whole and in country specific contexts, participants concluded that while much progress had indeed been achieved, innovative approaches and adoption of more recent guidelines for interventions were called for to make further significant progress in TB control. Current national TB control plans were therefore critically reviewed in the light of recent guidelines and developments in area of TB control. The discussions resulted in consensus on adopting the new WHO target of universal case detection as opposed to the present target of 70%, and on the possible means to reach this target. Discussions were also held on the application of newer diagnostics, adoption of the revised treatment guidelines, and acceleration of interventions to address particularly multi-drug resistant-TB, HIV associated TB, infection control and childhood TB.

Objectives [PDF 32 KB]

List of Participants [PDF 49 KB]

Recommendations [PDF 34 KB]