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Reference:3149
Country:Azerbaijan
Multiple country event:No
Region:EURO
City:Baku
Start date:15 November 2009
End date:22 November 2009
Estimated duration:
Status:Completed - Complété
 (The mission has taken place)

Title:Meetings at the ministries of Health, Ministrie of Justice, National TB Control
Type:Conference (invitation only - avec invitation)
Terms of Reference:• Present the UNITAID/WHO/GLI/GDF/FIND project -Narrowing the Gap: Expanding and accelerating access to diagnostics for patients at risk
of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)- (EXPAND-TB project) to NTP, NRL, MoH, MoJ, WHO country representatives and all relevant
stakeholders working in the country;
• Assess the requirements for upgrading and modernizing national TB reference laboratories (one reference centre and one regional
laboratory) as needed to accommodate and/or support TB diagnostic tools potentially procured through this project;

• Assess training needs with respect to training in good laboratory practice, bio-safety, quality assurance and new diagnostic methods;

• Meet with officials - NTP, NRL, MoH, MoJ, WHO country representatives and other relevant partners working in tuberculosis related
interventions in the country;
• Present to the authorities a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that clarifies the roles and responsibilities of each partner in this project;

• Carry out a final debriefing, ideally through a meeting gathering all officials and partners, in order to present main finding, possible options,
future steps and precise calendar;

• Provide a report summarizing all findings at the end of the visit.
Training Opportunity:No
Website:
Purpose 1:Laboratory strengthening
Purpose 2: 
Purpose 3: 
Other purpose:

Entered by:GLI
Partner 1:
Partner 2:
Partner 3:
Contact name:Fuad Mirzaev
Contact email:mirzaevf@who.int
Other agencies: 

Funding needs:No
Funding source:Other, specify / Autres, spécifiez
Other funding source:UNITAID (EXPAND-TB)
Available funding:$ 0
Funding gap:$ 0
Global Fund reference: 

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Documents associated with this event

Background document - Document d'information report.pdf Not confidential  

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Experts (non-roster) associated with this event

  Knut Feldman & Eric Adam knut.feldman@finddiagnostics.org & Eric.Adam@finddiagnostics.org 2 countries were visited during this mission: Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan  

Date Created: 27 December 2010
Entered By: Global Laboratory Initiative (GLI)




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