Second Stop TB Partners' Forum
24-26 March 2004 New Delhi India
Keeping the Pledge

Meeting Information

Agenda

Focus: Partnership progress in implementing Global Plan to Stop TB, and highlight the importance of country progress and private and civil sectors involvement.

Tuesday 23 March 2004

  • Forum Registration
  • Rehearsal
  • Opening Reception

Wednesday 24 March 2004

  • Session 1: Opening Ceremony: Global Partnership Progress
    The Global Plan and Partnership are working. The Plan presents a coherent strategy that has been effectively put into operation by the Partnership to achieve real progress with measurable results, as shown by the numbers for DOTS expansion, number of treatments provided by the Global Drug Facility and improved treatment of MDR tuberculosis through the Green Light Committee.
  • Session 2: Global Challenges and Recommendations
    Progress on TB could be reversed unless we shore up national TB programmes and invest in new approaches. National TB programmes and public health systems must be quickly strengthened, and governments in endemic countries must increase their political commitment and operational support to TB control linked to poverty reduction. Greater investment is needed in innovative ways to accelerate DOTS expansion towards reaching the TB targets by 2005, and the Millennium Development Goals.
  • Session 3: How to Speed up Progress Towards TB Targets
    Utilize the experience and expertise of the Partners to identify ways in which the recommendations of the 2nd Ad-Hoc Committee on the TB epidemic can be put in operation.
  • Stop TB Market Place
    Stop TB Partners displays, providing an opportunity to meet with representatives of partner organizations, discuss activities and explore potential collaborations
  • Reception/ Dinner hosted by the Government of India

Thursday 25 March 2004

  • Session 4: Sustainable Investment & Donor Coordination
    Greater investment is needed to accelerate both DOTS expansion and new tools development
  • Session 5: TB & HIV
    The continued rapid spread of the TB/HIV joint epidemic could overwhelm control efforts in the next few years in many countries, thereby putting gains at risk.
  • Session 6: Investing in New Tools
    Without better tools, TB will become more deadly and never be defeated. Only by developing new drugs, diagnostics and vaccines can progress against TB be rapidly accelerated and the disease eliminated as a global public health problem.
  • Session 7: Conclusions on the Way Forward Toward a TB-free World
    We need you. Stopping TB is much more than just a medical challenge. It requires cooperation with a broadened range of partners in the private and civil sectors -- businesses, religious groups, NGOs and others--to achieve universal DOTS coverage, accelerate case detection, and develop essential new tools.
  • CLOSING STATEMENTS

Friday 26 March 2004 - Saturday 27 March 2004

  • Site-Visits

Poster CAN be effective! [PDF 10KB]
Useful information on the benefits of presenting a poster.