The World Health Organization, in collaboration with partner organizations, conducted a two day planning workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 13-14 November 2008, to accelerate nationwide scale-up of collaborative HIV/TB activities with special emphasis on the Three Is for HIV/TB. The objectives of the workshop were to share experiences of countries in the implementation of HIV/TB collaborative activities, draft country specific road maps for critical actions needed for nationwide scale-up of collaborative HIV/TB activities and to agree upon a mechanism of monitoring and evaluation of the nationwide scale-up of HIV/TB collaborative activities at country level. The participants of the workshop included national HIV and TB programme managers or their representatives from the following 14 sub-Saharan African countries.
