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Organization Contact Information

Name: Serbian Anti-Tuberculosis Association
Street 1: Visegradska 26/20
Street 2:
City: Belgrade
Province: Serbia
Post Code: 11000
Country: Republic of Serbia
Phone: 381113663956
Email: tuberkul@verat.net
Web Site: http://www.tuberkuloza.org.rs

Focal Point Contact Information

Salutation: Dr
First Name: Dragica
Last Name: Pesut
Title: President
Email: dppesut@verat.net
Phone: 381113663956

Alternate Focal Point Contact Information

Salutation: Dr
First Name: Ljudmila
Last Name: Nagorni-Obradovic
Title: .
Email: ljudmila.nagorni@kcs.ac.rs
Phone: 381113663491

General Information

Board Constituency: Developing Country NGO
Organization Type - Primary: Non-Governmental Organization
Organization Type - Secondary: Community-Based Organization (CBO)
Is your organization legally registered in your country: Yes
Organization Reach: National
Organization Description:
1. Non-governmental, non-profitable organization of specialists of lung diseases and TB, GPs, nurses, patients and all the subjects interested in fight against TB.
2. We see TB as a global problem and mainly treatable disease, which could be eliminated only with common (and well coordinated) efforts in all the countries.
3. We plan to continue all the activities of former Yugoslav Anti-Tuberculosis Association - YATA, predominantly population education and continual medical education, technical assistance in research in all the fields of TB and support in active case detection in risk groups.
 
Total number of staff in your organization: 100 +
Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: 0
Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: 0
Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: 100 +
 
What is your organization's annual budget (USD) dedicated to TB? < $1,000
How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: Attendance at a TB related event
Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: Information on developments within the TB world
 
Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: No
Are you in contact with your national TB programme: Yes
Please tell us how your organization is contributing to your country's national TB control plan:
The majority of the members are directly involved in TB at their workplaces (clinical departments, laboratories, epidemiology departments, reserarch, teaching etc) and they are willing to contribute by spreading their activities volontarily. Some of them are members of National TB programme, some also belong to the University teaching staff;
Maintaining web site with information about TB for general population and professionals, continual respons via e-mail to all the interested subjects, mainly patients and their family etc.
 

Geographical Reach

Which country is your headquarters located in: Republic of Serbia
Which WHO region is the main focus of your work: European
Which countries do you do operate in:
(This includes countries you are conducting activities in)
Republic of Serbia

Specializations

Advocacy, communication and social mobilization
Delivery of health services and care
Research and Development
Technical Assistance

Specializations in Countries

Advocacy, communication and social mobilization Republic of Serbia

Contribution

Please tell us how your organization will contribute to the Global Plan to Stop TB by briefly describing its involvement in any of the areas of work listed below:

DOTS Expansion and Enhancement:
Publishing and distribution of the related material; additional efforts in monitoring within routine work and in collaboration with current National TB project financed by GF, (the latter is expected to develop better in the future)

Drug-Resistant TB:
Continual medical education with publishing related material for professionals, patients' education

TB-HIV:
Advocacy, collaboration with HIV/AIDS related association in the future to strenhten the link TB-HIV

New Diagnostics:
Continual medical education

Fundamental Research:
Collaboration with govenmental organizations, School of Medicine, international organizations

Operational Research:
Within routine work of the related members; technical asistance

Declaration

Declaration of interests:
We declare no conflict of interest.

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Last updated: August 26, 2011