TB/HIV Working Group

Meetings 2008

Read more about WHO at the XVII International AIDS Conference, 3-8 August 2008, Mexico City

"Universal Access of TB Services to People Living with HIV: Harnessing Collaboration and Coordination" organized by the Stop TB and HIV Departments of WHO, the International AIDS Society, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, UNAIDS and the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research. It is to be held on Sunday 3 August 2008 from 15:45 h –17:30* h in Room SR 10 (950) at the Banamex Centro.

This satellite session will address the key, practical activities that need to be implemented in order to reduce the burden of TB in people living with HIV and ensure the universal access of TB prevention, diagnosis and treatment services. Particular emphasis will be given to the challenges and opportunities of mainstreaming the Three Is for HIV/TB - intensified TB case finding, Isoniazid preventive therapy and infection control for TB in HIV care services in order to advocate for their inclusion as core functions of HIV care services.

Key note speakers include:
Kevin De Cock, Department of HIV/AIDS, WHO
Mark Dybul, US Global AIDS Coordinator, USA
Musa Njoko, Activist, South Africa
Anupong Chitwarakorn, Ministry of Health, Thailand
Henry Akpan, Ministry of Health, Nigeria
Paul Nunn, Stop TB Department, WHO

It will be co-chaired by:
Michel Kazatchine, Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
Diane Havlir, Chair HIV/TB Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership

Click here for the flyer

All documents available in English and Spanish

Click here for a roadmap of all TB/HIV activities at the conference (English)
Click here for a roadmap of all TB/HIV activities at the conference (Spanish)

Click here for the TB/HIV fact sheet 2008 (English)
Click here for the TB/HIV fact sheet 2008 (Spanish)

Click here for the Policy brief on collaborative TB and HIV services for injecting and other drug users 2008 (English)
Click here for the Policy brief on collaborative TB and HIV services for injecting and other drug users 2008 (Spanish)

Click here for the 12 TB/HIV Collaborative Activities fact sheet (English)
Click here for the 12 TB/HIV Collaborative Activities fact sheet (Spanish)

ONE LIFE - TWO DISEASES - ONE RESPONSE

Bold new leadership is needed to galvanize action on the HIV/TB epidemic. The first HIV/TB Global Leaders' Forum, to be held on 9 June 2008 at the United Nations in New York, will bring together decision-makers who can accelerate action on fighting the dual epidemic. The meeting, which has been endorsed by the UN Secretary General, His Excellency Mr Ban Ki-moon, will be held on the eve of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS. The Forum will bring together heads of state, senior political and UN officials with leaders of civil society, media, technical agencies and the private sector. It is expected that the Forum, will produce a Call for Action to drastically cut the number of deaths associated with HIV/TB co-infection.

To find out more, and register to attend this meeting see:
www.stoptb.org/events/hivtbleaders/home.html

TB/HIV at the HIV Implementers Meeting

TB/HIV at the HIV Implementers Meeting
Kampala, Uganda
June 3-7, 2008.

Workshop to Accelerate TB/HIV Collaborative Activities

• Final Report Workshop to Accelerate TB/HIV Collaborative Activities
• Country Roadmaps to Accelerate TB/HIV Collaborative Activities
• Presentations from Core Group and Workshop meetings

TB/HIV at CROI 2008

The Stop TB and HIV/AIDS Departments of the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS TB Epidemic (CREATE) hosted a HIV/TB meeting as an affiliated event to the 15th Conference on retroviruses and opportunistic infections (CROI 2008) on behalf of the TB/HIV Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership. The meeting held on February 3, 2008 in Boston, USA was attended by more than 50 leading HIV researchers, policy makers and representatives from funding agencies. The main objectives of the meeting were to review ongoing research efforts, promote interchange of scientific ideas on unmet research needs and discuss priorities around the prevention of TB (isoniazid preventive therapy) and enhanced TB case finding (TB screening) among people living with HIV (PLHIV).

Read the meeting report
List of Participants

Read the presentations made at the meeting
Haileyesus Getahun, WHO, Global implementation of TB prevention and intensified case finding among PLHIV
Kevin Cain, CDC, Intensified case finding among PLHIV
Stephen Lawn, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, South Africa, Intensified case finding
Richard Chaisson, John Hopkins University and CREATE, Prevention of TB among PLHIV beyond IPT

15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections

The Stop TB and HIV/AIDS Departments of WHO in collaboration with the Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic (CREATE) are organising a HIV/TB meeting in conjunction with the 15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2008) on behalf of the TB/HIV Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership. The meeting is a CROI affiliated event and will be held on Sunday February 3, 2008 between11:30-13:30 at the Westin Copley Place Hotel (Great Republic meeting room at 7th Floor), 10 Huntington Ave, Boston.

The main objective of the meeting is to promote high level scientific interchange of ideas and research priorities about the prevention of TB and enhanced screening of TB among people living with HIV. The meeting will highlight and discuss ongoing research efforts around TB prevention to stimulate debate and discussion on key research priorities and identifying gaps that need urgent attention. Please find attached with this message a brief agenda of the meeting. A light lunch will be provided during the meeting.

If you are interested in attending this meeting please RSVP by a return email to tbhiv@who.int at your earliest convenience but no later than 25 January 2008. We want the meeting to be small and interactive and hence there will be limited slots.