Upcoming events at AIDS 2012 and 43rd World Lung Health conference

We’d like to draw attention to events at several upcoming conferences, and to remind you that registration for the 43^rd Union World Conference on Lung Health is now open.

AIDS 2012: Skills building workshop for national HIV and TB programme managers

 WHO is organising a skills building workshop during AIDS 2012 on TB/HIV collaborative activities. “TB/HIV Collaborative Activities – Implement, Integrate and Scale up to Prevent TB Deaths in People living with HIV!” will be held on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 from 14:30 until 18:00 in Mini Room 7 of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and aims to accelerate the global scale-up of collaborative TB/HIV activities through exchange of experience and best practice.

The workshop is primarily intended for National HIV and TB programme managers. The workshop would also benefit from, and be of interest to, managers from other programmes such as MCH and Harm Reduction programmes. The workshop will discuss key challenges in implementation, and is intended to cross-fertilise measures needed for scale-up, taking into consideration regional variations. It will be conducted in English and will be largely interactive to allow participants to probe and test out the experience and lessons learnt by other attendees. A meeting agenda will be ready for sharing in due course. Meeting participants will not need to register to attend this workshop but are advised to be at the door of the workshop 20 minutes in advance as the seating will be limited to a first-come, first-seated arrangement.

 43^rd Union World Conference on Lung Health

 The 43^rd Union World Conference on Lung Health takes place from 13-17 November in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

This year’s theme is `Driving sustainability through mutual responsibility`.

Preliminary programme details are now available, including a full list of symposia. The following sessions caught our eye, but the full list of symposia taking place throughout the meeting can be downloaded here.

 Tuesday 13 November

• STOP TB Symposium: 'Developing a post-2015 Stop TB Strategy and Targets'

 Thursday 15 November

• TB Reach: Results from TB case finding innovations in the first two waves
• WHO guidelines on screening for active tuberculosis
• Rolling out Xpert MTB/RIF: bringing donors, laboratories and programmes together for sustainability
• Challenges and solutions for sustainable TB and TB/HIV care among migrants and marginalised populations

 Friday 16 November

• Former TB patients: effective community engagement and lessons learnt
• NGOs and civil societies’ role in sustainable approaches for scaling up DR-TB programmes
• Advances in the treatment of MDR-TB

 Saturday 17 November

• Defining and sustaining the impact of new tools for TB

• Controversies in HIV/AIDS: Topic 1: Should isoniazid preventive therapy be given to HIV-infected persons without prior tuberculin skin testing?; Topic 2: During couples HIV counselling in TB clinics, should the HIV-positive discordant couple receive antiretroviral therapy to prevent HIV infectio

• Sustainable practices, building design, and engineering to reduce TB transmission in resource-limited settings

• Palliative care in drug-resistant and complicated tuberculosis: models of community-based care

•  Late-breaker session (deadline for abstract submission: 30 July 2012)

 TB education and training materials discussion session

(Friday, 16 November 2012, 14:30 - 16:30, Room TBC)

• Find out about the development and availability of TB education and training materials from a variety of programmes and organisations

• Meet with materials developers

• Share your own TB education and training ideas

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