Stop TB Partnership

African regional workshop focuses on drug-resistant tuberculosis

3 June 2011 - Kigali, Rwanda - The WHO Regional Office for Africa, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Rwanda, organized a workshop from 30 May to 3 June to discuss the management of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), drug-resistance surveys and drug-resistant TB recording and reporting for epidemiologists, statisticians and data managers.

The training aimed to improve regional capacity to combat drug-resistant TB through strengthening the capacity of countries to prevent, identify and manage drug-resistant TB cases as part of normal TB control programmes.

The training was a response to the increased number of cases of drug-resistant TB in the African Region since 2006, and in line with a World Health Assembly resolution which urged Member States to develop a comprehensive framework for management and care of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB".

The workshop was attended by participants from the following countries: Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Rwanda.