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Tuberculosis: Stop TB
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1. TB-HIV/AIDS Co-Infection: Coordination among Programs
2. TB-HIV/AIDS Co-Infection: Interprogramatic Coordination
3. TB-HIV/AIDS Association: Operational and Coordination Issues
4. Reflections on TB/HIV and MDR
5. TB/HIV Co-Infection throughout the World: The WHO Strategy to Reduce Its Burden
WHO presentations translated into Spanish and presented at this meeting:
6. Guidelines for the Surveillance of HIV among Tuberculosis Patients
7. Guidelines for Implementing Collaborative TB and HIV Programme Activities
- Six more presentions from the participating countries are available on the Spanish version of this page (click at the bottom right corner to access).
Technical References
-Building Blocks: Comprehensive Care Guidelines for Persons Living with TB/HIV Co-infection in the Americas (PAHO/WHO: Working document, 52 pp, in Spanish, to be translated once finalized: Word | PDF).
 - Guidelines for Implementing Collaborative TB and HIV Programme Activities (WHO/HIV/2003.01 on WHO website: 86 pp, PDF)
WHO Links
- Tuberculosis: Strategies, Operations, Monitoring & Evaluation (WHO)
- TB Advocacy Report 2003: The Human Face of TB (WHO)
- TB Literature by Subject
- WHO TB Page
- WHO HIV Page
PAHO Links
- 2004 TB/HIV Workshop
- Workshops on TB in Prisons: 2003 | 2004
- 2004 Regional TB Meeting
- PAHO TB Page
- PAHO AIDS Page
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The PAHO Regional Program on Tuberculosis sponsored a workshop on TB-HIV co-infection. This pioneering event constitutes one of the first formalized global initiatives to fight the lethal threat posed by the combination of TB and HIV.
Target Audience: National TB and HIV Program Managers from the Caribbean and Central America.
Countries Attending: Belice, Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama; and as guests, Guyana, Mexico, and Peru.
General Objective: To accelerate an effective joint TB/HIV response to the epidemic of HIV associated TB in the Americas by facilitating the sharing of information and experiences between the TB and HIV community.
Specific Objectives
- To present the final version of the document Building Blocks: Comprehensive Care Guidelines for Persons Living with TB-HIV Co-infection in the Americas, and receive comments on it.
- To discuss the development of TB-HIV police at regional and country level.
- To explore and make recommendations on collaboration strategies between country-level TB and HIV Programs.
Reasons for Choosing San Pedro Sula as the Location of the Workshop
- The first meeting for discussion of the Building Blocksdocument was held in San Pedro Sula in October 2001.
- Honduras is one of the Latin American countries with a generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic (57,000 adults and children living with HIV/AIDS, with a prevalence among the general adult population of 1.6% in 2002).
- San Pedro can be considered as the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Central America, with an HIV prevalence of 5% in prenatal clinics (1998) and 13% (1997) among female sex workers. Among TB patients, HIV prevalence stands at 9.8% (1992) (Epifact Sheet, UNAIDS, 2002).
- Contacts
- Rodolfo Rodríguez
- Regional Advisor for Tuberculosis, PAHO Headquarters, Washington, DC
- Juan Carlos Millán
- Head of Clinical Department, "Pedro Kouri" Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK), Cuba. Consultant for PAHO to produce the document Building Blocks: Comprehensive Care Guidelines for Persons Living with TB-HIV Co-Infection in the Americas
- David Zavala
- Resident/Consultant, PAHO Headquarters, Washington, DC. Involved in research on TB/HIV epidemiology and WHO/AMRO interprogrammatic issues
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