20th webinar of the Virtual Medical Consilium (VMC) of the WHO Regional Office for Europe devoted to the 2022 update of the WHO DR-TB treatment guideline, held on February 24th, 2023
The webinar agenda includes:
• Welcoming remarks. Dr Askar Yedilbayev, Team Lead (TB), Mr Oleksandr Korotych, Technical Officer, Joint Infectious Diseases Unit, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Denmark.
• Development principles and key recommendations of the WHO DR-TB treament guideline 2022 update. The 6-month BPaL(M) regimen and the evidence behind the recommendation for its programmatic use. Dr Fuad Mirzayev, Team Leader of the WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Programme, Switzerland.
• Assessment of country’s preparedness to introduction of BPaL(M) into the programmatic practice. Dr Nino Lomtadze
• Country early experience on the introduction and scale up of BPaL(M). Prof Alena Skrahina, Deputy Head of NTP, Belarus.
• Questions and Answers.