Roadmap of TB/HIV sessions at the upcoming 7th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention.

The World Health Organization, supported by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), convened a regional TB/HIV Implementation Workshop followed by the 18th Core Group meeting of the TB/HIV Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership from 10th – 12th April 2013 in Maputo, Mozambique. The event brought together more than 120 participants, comprising key international partners as well as regional and national HIV and TB stakeholders including community and civil society representatives from 14 countries in the African region. Countries represented included Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The aim of the workshop was to review progress in implementation and promote strategies to increase access to early ART for people living with HIV and active TB and to accelerate the scale-up of the Three Is for HIV/TB in the African Region. Participants also shared best practices and identified priority actions for scaling up, and monitoring and evaluating the implementation of collaborative TB/HIV activities.

For a brief overview of activities carried out by the Secretariat and the Working Group, and events planned for the coming months, read the latest "Message from the Chair and the Secretariat".

The World Health Organization and the Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic (CREATE) convened their 7th CROI-affiliated HIV/TB research meeting on behalf of the TB/HIV Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership in Atlanta, Georgia USA on 3 March, 2013. The meeting discussed critical knowledge and research gaps on TB prevention among children and adults and drug interactions between new TB drugs and ART. Attended by some 100 participants, the meeting was convened by Dr Haileyesus Getahun of WHO and co-chaired by Dr Diane Havlir of UCSF and Chair of the Global TB/HIV Working Group and Dr Richard Chaisson, of Johns Hopkins and Director of CREATE.

WHO, on behalf of the Global TB/HIV Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership and in collaboration with the Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic (CREATE) is organizing the 7th CROI affiliated HIV/TB research meeting which will be held on Sunday 3 March 2013 between 11:30 and 13:30 at the Omni Hotel, CNN Center, in Atlanta, Georgia USA. The aim of the meeting is to promote high level scientific interchange of ideas and research priorities about specific issues related TB prevention as well as drug interactions between new TB drugs and ART.

Roadmap of HIV/TB sessions, booths and networking zones.

International consultation convened in conjunction with AIDS 2012
Date: 21 July 2012
Time: 09:00 – 17:00
Location: Rm. 202, Georgetown Law, 600 New Jersey Ave., NW, McDonough Hall, Washington, DC 20001