Stop TB Partnership

Stop TB Symposium focuses on women and children

26 October 2011 - Lille, France - The 2011 Stop TB Symposium at the Union World Conference on Lung Health focussed on tuberculosis (TB) in women and children.

Topics discussed included:

• The latest TB epidemiology data from the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global TB Control report which, for the first time, includes estimates of TB in women and children.
• The increased risk of mothers transmitting HIV to their children among women who are ill with TB.
• The integration of maternal and infant care which could contribute to decreasing mortality in pregnant women.
• Screening pregnant women for TB in high burden settings.
• TB screening and case detection by maternal health services.
• WHO Europe's action plan to combat drug-resistant TB.
• Country presentations from Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia and Yemen.
• Using the Xpert MTB/RIF test to diagnose pulmonary TB in children
• New fixed-dose combination drugs for children with TB
• Expanding access to TB treatment and care for women and children.

Presentations from the Stop TB Symposium can be found here