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The First Stop TB Partners' Forum
22–23 October 2001, The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA

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Agenda

Please click on this link which will take you to a detailed draft agenda in pdf format
[dated 18.10.01].

Sunday, 21 October: Opening
- Welcome Reception: The Human Face of TB
   Personal statements: Ram Khadka (Nepal), Paul Mahyo (UK), Johannes Lindt (World Bank)
Monday, 22 October : STOP TB PARTNERS' FORUM                              [Evening Despatch]
Background Documents:
*
50:50 Towards a TB Free Future
*
Stop TB Partnership Frameword
Session One: Progress since Amsterdam: Expanding DOTS
- Welcome Address: James Wolfensohn, President, The World Bank
Keynote presentation: Celebrating progress: 50 years of TB treatment—Sir John Crofton
- Roundtable: Progress and challenges in DOTS Expansion
Presentations: Experiences from India, the Western Pacific Region and USAID
Session Two: New threats: Overlapping epidemics of TB and HIV
- Introduction: TB & HIV—video
Roundtable: Overcoming Obstacle, Optimizing Opportunities
Presentations: Thailand, South Africa, CDC/GAP
Session Three: Reinforcing global efforts to Stop TB
- The Global Partnership to Stop TB
Presentations: Status of the partnership—Jacob Kumaresan
- Roundtable: Expand/ Adapt/ Improve: Stop TB Working Groups
Presentations: DOTS Expansion, MDR-TB, TB-HIV, New Drugs, TB Diagnostics, TB Vaccines
- Discussions
Session Four—"Concurrent Roundtables" First Round
- Roundtables are open to all Forum participants and will consist of short presentations
followed by facilitated group discussions on recommendations for global plan to Stop TB
Chair: Adam Wanner, ATS
Finance Track (World Bank, Preston Room) Mechanisms for Channelling Resources
Ethiopia, Kenya, Myanmar, DFID
Chair: Jaap Broekmans, KNCV
Partnership Track (World Bank, Auditorium)
Promoting Partnerships
Russian Federation, Pakistan, Nigeria
Session Five—Concurrent roundtables Second Round
Chair: Paul Ehmer, Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
Finance Track
(World Bank, Preston Room)
Health Sector Reform
UR Tanzania, Indonesia, Cambodia, The Netherlands
Chair: Mark Rosenberg (TFCSD) & Results

Partnership Track (World Bank, Auditorium)

Social Mobilization
Zimbabwe, Brazil
- Adjourn
- Convening–writing committee: The Washington Commitment
(Incorporating contributions from Ministerial Roundtable rapporteurs)
- Reception hosted by Stop TB Partnership, World Bank, Atrium
Tuesday, 23 October 2001: MINISTERIAL PLANNING FORUM                 [Evening Despatch]
                                                                                                   [Washington Commitment]
Background Documents:
*
Global Plan to Stop TB (pdf 2459kb)
* Draft Washington Commitment
Breakfast: Stop TB Coordinating Board and Signing Ceremony for the GDF Memorandum of Understanding
Session Six—Opportunities to invest to Stop TB
- Introductory Video: "Stopping TB: Acceleration needed – Plan & Mechanisms in place
- Roundtable: Lessons learned on investing in TB
Presentations: Uganda (TB&HIV), China (National Investment), Republic of Moldova
- Roundtable: Global Plan and Investments to Stop TB
Keynote Presentations: George Soros (Soros Foundation), Jo Ritzen (World Bank), Gro Harlem Brundtland (WHO)
- Press Conference and Launch of Global Plan to Stop TB
Session Seven: Discussion and endorsement of Washington Commitment
- Presentation and discussion: Draft Washington Commitment
Commitments from countries and organizations
- Endorsement of the Washington Commitment
Session Eight: Concurrent Roundtables Third Round
Chairs: Chris Lovelace (World Bank) & Nils Billo (IUATLD)
Finance Track (WB, Preston Room)
Mobilizing New Resources

Peru, Philippines, DR Congo
Chair: Fran du Melle (ALA)
Partnership Track (WB, Auditorium)
New Partnerships
Viet Nam, Bangladesh, PhilCAT, UNICEF
- Closing Session: Stop TB Partnership: Moving ahead
JW Lee (WHO) and Jo Ritzen (World Bank)

Parallel activities in Washington during the Forum:

  • Sunday 21 October. Registration Reception "The human face of TB" (includes a dinner buffet) at Omni Shoreham Hotel.
  • Monday 22 October. Reception at World Bank, special Congressional guests are invited.
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