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Providing technical assistance to the National TB Programme (NTP), particularly on:
 developing TB control policies
and strategies;
building capacity to sustain,
improve and further intensify Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS)
implementation;
scaling up and strengthening
inter-sectoral partnerships for DOTS;
improving community awareness
and utilization of DOTS;
addressing HIV related TB and
anti-TB drug resistance under programme conditions;
measuring progress towards
Millennium Development Goals;
designing and disseminating
information, education and communication messages;
improving
operational research to strengthen DOTS implementation, together with the
Department of Medical Research.
Facilitating partnership,
including with the Global TB Drug Facility.
Providing technical expertise to
the joint programme implementation through
Technical Working Group on TB.
Disseminating scientific
information.
Organizing external two-yearly
review of the NTP.
Advocacy and raising commitment
for TB control.
Resource mobilization for TB and
TB-HIV.
In-country presence of WHO
Advisor for TB and TB-HIV.
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Launching Ceremony of the DOTS-Plus Programme for the Management of Multidrug Resistant
Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Myanmar
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The Ministry of Health, Myanmar and the World Health Organization
organized the Launching ceremony of DOTS-Plus (Directly Observed Treatment
Short course - Plus) Programme for the management
of MDR-TB in Myanmar, on Thursday 9 July 2009, at 10:00 am, at the Training
Hall of the National TB Reference Laboratory, in the compound of TB
Hospital Aung San, Yangon…
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National Workshop on Adopting and Adapting the
International Standards for TB Care (ISTC) in Myanmar, 4 – 5 March, 2009
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The Ministry of Health, Myanmar,
in collaboration with WHO Country Office Myanmar
organized the National Workshop on Adopting and Adapting the International
Standards for TB Care in Myanmar
at Traders’ Hotel, 4-5 March 2009. The workshop was financially supported
by the United States Agency for International Development and WHO.
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Ministry of Health Partners meeting on Sustainable
Tuberculosis (TB) Drug Supply in Myanmar
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The Ministry of Health, Myanmar
with support from the WHO convened the Partners’ Meeting on “Sustainable TB
Drug Supply in Myanmar”
in Naypyitaw on 1st December 2008. The meeting
was chaired by the Minister for Health Professor Dr Kyaw Myint and attended
by the Deputy Ministers for Health Professor Mya Oo and Professor Paing
Soe, Director Generals and Deputy Director Generals of Departments under
the Ministry of Health, Ambassadors/Representatives of Embassies of United
Kingdom, Australia, United States of America, Japan, UN Resident
Representative/UN Resident Coordinator, Country Representatives of WHO,
UNICEF, UNDP, UNAIDS, Representatives of WHO HQ Geneva, the Global Drug Facility (GDF)
Monitoring Mission headed by the Chief of GDF, Representatives from Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA), United Kingdom Department for
International Development, Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency, Director of the International Union against TB and Lung Diseases,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Population Services International
(PSI), the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, the General Manager
of TOTAL Company, International non governmental organizations (PSI, World
Vision Myanmar, Pact Myanmar, Malteser
International), Officials from Ministry of Health, and special invited
guests.
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A step forward on: TB HIV Collaborative Activities in
Myanmar
(The Basic Minimum Package of Interventions for TB/HIV at District/Township
level)
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According to the sentinel results in 2005, about 7.1% of
TB sputum smear positive patients were found HIV positive. Since then, WHO
in collaboration with MOH re-initiated a pilot programme
in 2 high prevalence townships on collaborative prevention and control
activities for TB HIV.
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