Subject: Stop TB Partnership Newsletter - May 2018
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The Stop TB Partnership Newsletter - May 2018

Watch this space for the upcoming news alert on the Interactive Civil Society Hearing in New York

Stop TB Partnership’s GDF Annual Meeting of TB Medicines Manufacturers

GDF demonstrated its added value beyond procurement of TB medicines and diagnostics at its annual medicines manufacturers meeting in Bangkok in front of a record audience. Read more here.

Stop TB and WEF Join Hands for Enhanced Private Sector Engagement for UN HLM on TB

Do read more here about the Stop TB Partnership's participation in numerous meetings and side events during the 71st World Health Assembly (WHA), using the opportunity to speak widely about the first ever UN HLM on TB.

A photo featuring left to right: Minister of Health of South Africa and Chair of Stop TB Partnership Board, Aaron Motsoaledi; Executive Director of Stop TB Partnership, Dr. Lucica Ditiu and Minister of Health of Kazakhstan Yelzhan Birtanov at a joined event with WEF.

Social Innovation Summit 2018

Hosted by Landmark Ventures

4-6 June – San Francisco, CA, USA

Expert Review Meeting for Implementation Guides for Improving TB Case Detection

Part of the Global Fund’s Strategic Initiative for TB

11-12 June - Amsterdam, Netherlands

TB REACH Quarterly M&E Meeting

13-14 June - Amsterdam, Netherlands

McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health: Advanced TB Diagnostics

11-22 June- Montreal, Canada

Stop TB Partnership's OneImpact (digital solution platform to facilitate community-based monitoring of the TB response) will be implemented with the support of the Stop TB Partnership. KHANA and the National TB and Leprosy Control Program Cambodia will lead the project with support from the Stop TB Partnership and Dure Technologies.

20-23 June - Siem Reap, Cambodia

CRG Tools Strategic Planning

29 June - Geneva, Switzerland

NTP Review Kazakhstan

25-6 July

Nigeria Legal Environment Assessment (LEA) Validation Workshop

10-12 July - Abuja, Nigeria

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GDF Technical Assistance Mission to Papua New Guinea

1-8 June

GDF Technical Assistance Mission to Swaziland

4-14 June

GDF Technical Assistance Mission to Sierra Leone

11-22 June

GDF Technical Assistance Mission to DPR Korea

21-30 June

GDF Technical Assistance Mission to Ghana

25 June-6 July

Regional Green Light Committee for the WHO European Region

18-20 June - Copenhagen, Denmark

Nelson Mandela International Day

18 July

World Hepatitis Day

18 July

Zero TB Cities Meeting

15-18 July - Dubai, UAE

TB 2018

22 July - Amsterdam, Netherlands

22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018)

23-27 July - Amsterdam, Netherlands

Stop TB and IFRC Mobilize Affected Communities in Africa and MENA for the UN HLM on TB

Workshops in Johannesburg and Cairo mark the end of a series of five regional meetings held by the Stop TB Partnership, IFRC together with affected community partners aiming to build partnerships, strategize and mobilize advocacy in the lead up to the UN HLM on TB. Read the full story.

The private sector is gearing up for the UN HLM on TB

The Stop TB Partnership’s Private Sector Constituency (PSC) held in May its third, in-person workshop, preparing a coordinated approach for the UN HLM on TB in Geneva. Find out more here.

Full speed ahead for the UN HLM  on TB

The Interactive Civil Society Hearing calls for united and bold actions to secure Heads of State to attend the UN HLM on TB

Civil society and TB Affected Communities called for engagement and commitment from Heads of State and governments to end TB. Keep To support the global TB Community's efforts, Stop TB Partnership launched the Advocacy & Communications Toolkit. Join the campaign!

Stop TB Partnership’s GDF undertakes monthly missions to provide technical assistance to countries and support National TB Programs in managing procurement.

Read here about the latest missions.

Dhaka Toddler Beats Drug-Resistant TB

Another Chance — First Loss, Then Transformation

Expanding Urban DOTS into the private sector is improving access to quality treatment in Kabul

Advocates call for urgent reforms of WHO TB diagnosis and treatment guidelines

New York advocates and politicians  call for increased funding after the first rise in TB case in over a decade

Efforts to focus UN HLM on TB R&D

Efforts to ensure appropriate inclusion of children in UN HLM

TAG's Know Your Rights guide on TB

HEAL TB Journal Article comparing the yield of TB among contacts of MDR-TB index cases with that of DS-TB index cases in a program setting

New Initiative Calls for TB Free Cities in Bangladesh

TB Under the Spotlight in South Africa

Strategy for identification and follow up of TB patients in Maputo City

HEAL TB Inaugurates New Multidrug-resistant TB Treatment Center in Debre Tabor

Burundi develops a protocol for the prevention and management of co-morbidity Tuberculosis/Diabetes

U.S. supported Conference Promotes Science and Technology to End Tuberculosis in Uzbekistan

How London became the tuberculosis capital of Western Europe

Tanzania: Where Are the Missing Tuberculosis Patients?

Who dies from Tuberculosis?

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: What journalists need to know

When Thiago Silva moved to Russia in 2005 tuberculosis nearly ended his career

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