Bellagio Center, Italy
The meeting will include a broad consultation on the research roadmap on the first day and a retreat for donors on the second day.
Closed event

Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin, Germany
More details at http://www.kmforum.eu/

London
Andrew George MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Tuberculosis, will host an APPG meeting on: Tackling TB and HIV in Africa meeting
3pm - 4:30pm, Westminster

Keynote speaker: Stephen O'Brien MP, DFID Minister with responsibility for health policy

Other panel speakers:
Dr Lucica Ditiu, Executive Secretary of the WHO Stop TB Partnership
Alisdair Reid, HIV/TB Advisor, UNAIDS
Thokozile Phiri-Nkoma , Malawian TB/HIV grassroots advocate campaigner

If you would like to attend this event please RSVP to mike.smith@results.org.uk. Spaces are limited

Palais des Nations, Geneva
The event will focus on TB care at the community level, including the launch of a new advocacy report. Panellists will be representing the Red Cross and Red Crescent, the World Health Organisation and the Stop TB Partnership.

Moscow
Sponsored by BD, the photo exhibition will be open to the general public in Moscow for approximately three weeks. The opening ceremony to be supported by key stakeholders and celebrities and accompanied by a press event. James Nachtwey will host a master class for Russian photographers on 24 March.

Paris
On March 24, TBVI, together with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Fondation Mérieux, Friends of the Global Fund Europe and Stop TB Partnership, will organize a round table discussion and a symposium in Paris:

Round table: The fight against tuberculosis: what's new in research?
Symposium: Innovative funding and translation of discoveries into added value: new vaccines for TB

Date: 24 March 2011, 15h00-18h00, followed by a cocktail reception

Location: Centre culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, 51 Avenue Iéna 75116 Paris, France
Interpretation EN/FR will be available.

Registration required.

Speakers:

Dr. Jorge Sampaio UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy to Stop Tuberculosis
Dr. Patrice Debré, Ambassador for the fight against AIDS and communicable diseases, Ministry of foreign and European affairs, France
Dr. Christian Lienhardt, Senior scientific advisor, Stop TB Partnership
Moderator: Michèle Diaz, Science Journalist, Radio France International

Washington, US
Panelists

• Joel Spicer, Senior Strategist Stop TB Partnership
• Payam Nahid, M.D., Medical Doctor, San Francisco General Hospital
• Christy Hanson, Ph.D., Chief of the Infectious Disease Division, USAID
• David Rochkind, Photographer

Moderator: Jon Sawyer, Executive Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

A Tuberculosis Tools Exhibit will follow the panel discussion and will include the GeneXpert diagnostic test, equipment used in smear microscopy, TB drug regimen, technology used for clinical research. Experts will be on hand to answer questions.

Pulitzer Center-grantee David Rochkind will also present his recent reporting and photography on multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) in Moldova.

More information at: http://pulitzercenter.org/event/congressional-senate-briefing-multi-drug-resistant-tb-rochkind-sawyer

RSVP at http://my.globalhealth.org/ebusiness/events/default.aspx?pid=451

Oegstgeest, Netherlands
Princess Margriet, Patroness of the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation will attend the launch of a partnership with the CORPUS 'Journey through the human body' museum in Oegstgeest, the Netherlands.

Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands became Patroness of KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation in July 2010. A historical relationship was thus renewed, one hundred years after Queen Emma gave her name to the Emma Flower fundraising activities for tuberculosis control.

For more information

Washington, US
Panelists Include

• Ken Castro, MD, Director, Division of TB Elimination, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Minister Mphu Keneiloe Ramatlapeng, Minister of Health, Lesotho (Invited)
• Rachel Orduño, Patient Advocate
• Dave Persing, MD, Medical Director, Cepheid

Moderator: Dr Lucica Ditiu Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership