2015 Anual Meeting

Annual meeting of the Childhood TB Subgroup Thursday 3 December 2015

The annual meeting of the Childhood TB subgroup was organized on Thursday 3 December 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. The meeting was open to all members of the childhood TB subgroup representing a wide variety of stakeholders including paediatricians, NTP managers, MCH representatives, technical and financial partners, community TB representatives and WHO staff from Headquarters, regional and country offices. The meeting was opened by the Chair of the subgroup, Steve Graham and Malgosia Grzemska, coordinator, Global TB Programme, WHO Geneva (and the Secretary, Childhood TB subgroup).

The main purpose of the annual meeting was to share country experiences in scaling up the response to childhood TB and to discuss next steps to move the agenda forward. More specifically, the objectives were to:

• To share the latest estimates of the childhood TB burden;

• To discuss how to operationalize the End TB Strategy with a focus on childhood TB;

• To share progress made in collaboration with MCH and other health services;

• To share country experiences in scaling up childhood TB activities;

• To learn about community-based projects; and,

• To discuss the uptake of the new paediatric TB Fixed Dose Combination (Childhood TB FDC).