Regional Interprogrammatic Meeting on TB/HIV

(Mexico City, 9–10 September 2004)

Final Report |  - Agenda
(4 pp, 260 KB)

Main References

Contacts
- Mirtha del Granado, Regional TB Advisor, PAHO/WHO Regional Program on TB, PAHO Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA.
- Alfonso Tenorio, Consulting Resident on TB, PAHO/WHO Regional Program on TB, PAHO Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA.

WHO Links
- TB Advocacy Report 2003: The Human Face of TB
- Tuberculosis: Strategies, Operations, Monitoring & Evaluation
- TB Literature by Subject
- WHO Tuberculosis Page
- WHO HIV Page

PAHO Links
- 2003 TB/HIV Workshop
- Workshops on TB in Prisons: 2004 |  - 2003
- 2004 Regional TB Meeting
- PAHO Tuberculosis Page
- PAHO AIDS Page

The Regional Program on Tuberculosis of the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), with support from the PAHO Country Office in Mexico, the Secretary of Health of Mexico and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is holding its second regional workshop on TB/HIV co-infection and collaboration between national TB and HIV/AIDS Programs from 9–10 September 2004 in Mexico City.

Objectives

General: Strengthen the effective joint response of TB and HIV/AIDS programs to the epidemic of TB/HIV in the Americas.

Specific

1. Follow up on concerted action plans from the Workshop on TB/HIV Co-Infection held in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 14–15 August 2003.
2. Describe the epidemiological situation of TB/HIV co-infection in the Region of the Americas.
3. Become acquainted with experiences of successful interprogrammatic collaboration in the area of TB/HIV, both globally and regionally.
4. Discuss operational terms for the surveillance of HIV prevalence among TB patients, in harmony with second-generation epidemiological surveillance.
5. Implement the Building Blocks strategy, based on the Guide for Comprehensive Care of People Living with TB-HIV and the Interim Policy on Collaborative TB-HIV Activities.
6. Introduce clinical management protocols of co-infection.

Information that the countries should bring to the meeting either to present or to use in working groups

• Challenges and accomplishments in implementing interprogrammatic collaborative activities for TB/HIV, in accordance with the action plans developed at San Pedro Sula in August 2003.
• Information related to the matrix of the 2005–2006 action plan distributed two weeks prior to this event.

Participating Countries

Main References

- Guide for Comprehensive Care of People Living with TB-HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean (PAHO/WHO, in Spanish, WHO translation forthcoming)
- TB-HIV: A Clinical Manual (2^nd ed., WHO)
- Guidelines for Implementing Collaborative TB and HIV Programme Activities (WHO)
- Guidelines for HIV Surveillance among Tuberculosis Patients (2^nd ed., WHO)
- Interim Policy on Collaborative TB/HIV Activities (WHO, 20 pp, PDF)
- Report of a "Lessons Learnt" Workshop on the Six ProTEST Pilot Projects in Malawi, South Africa & Zambia (WHO)