Monday, February 5

Welcome and Logistics. Review of event objectives.

Leo J. Ryan, Director, CSTS+, ORC MACRO, Lessons Learned Exchange Facilitator
Karen LeBan, Executive Director, The CORE Group

• Powerpoint: Overview of CORE's Role - Top Challenges in Community-Based TB Program Implementation

Welcome and overview of STOP-TB strategy and role of NGOs within it.

Irene Koek, Chief, Infectious Disease Division, Global Health Bureau, USAID

• Powerpoint: Overview of Global Plan II, STOP TB Strategy and the Role of NGOs

New Community Empowerment Guidelines from STOP TB Partnership

Giuliano Gargioni, Chair, Community-based TB Care Task Force, ACSM, STOP TB, WHO

• Powerpoint: Stop TB Strategy - Component 5: Empower people with TB, and communities. Guiding Principles

ACSM: What is it? Workplan, CORE involvement, resources for CORE members.

Elena McEwan, Senior Health Technical Advisor, CRS

• Powerpoint: ACSM: What is it?

TB and Poverty: Equitable access to services.

Maarten van Cleef, Project Director, TBCTA, TBCAP

• Powerpoint: TB and Poverty: Equitable access to services

PVO Stories from the field: Romania

Alka Dev, Program Manager, DOW

• Powerpoint: Romania
• Powerpoint: TB Control along the Roma River

PVO Stories from the field: Mexico

Janine Schooley, Vice President for Technical Services and Programs, PCI

• Powerpoint: Mexico

Participant Vignettes: Poverty, Community Empowerment and TB

Leo Ryan

Poster Session: Community-based TB control, with focus on Poverty, TB/HIV, Reaching the Hard to Reach, Stigma, Patient Empowerment, HRD

• CRS AIDS Relief in Rwanda
• Project HOPE: TB Control in Southern Malawi
• HRD: Support Diagram
• PSI: Social Franchising to Stop TB (pdf)
• PSI: Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) and TB Integration in Mobile Clinics and DOTS Treatment Centers (powerpoint)
• PSI: Social Franchising to Stop TB (powerpoint)
• PSI: Social Franchising to Stop TB (TV Commercial)
• URC: TB Programming from a Community Based Perspective

Poster Winners Awarded. Poster recap. Introduction for Day Two.

Leo Ryan

Best Use of Data: MCDI on Determinants of Adherence to TB Treatment in South Africa

Most Creative: PSI for their posters/TV spot addressing Social Franchising of DOTS in Myanmar and Pakistan, and VCT and TB Integration in Zimbabwe.

Most Informative: Research Institute of Tuberculosis/Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association's poster on over two decades of work on community-based TB control.

Most Innovative Example of a Community-Based Program: Shifa Social Mobilization Project, World Vision India.

Community-based responses to TB/HIV:Research findings.

Mukadi Ya Diul, Director, Care and Treatment, FHI

• Powerpoint: Community-Based TB/HIV Activities

PVO Stories from the Field: South Africa.

Martha Benezet, TB/HIV Coordinator, NITHAP CS project, MCDI

• Powerpoint: Ndwedwe Integrated TB, HIV and AIDS Project (NITHAP)

Stories from the Field: India

Nirmal Kumar, National TB Coordinator & Program Manager, Shifa TB Project, WV

• Powerpoint: India

Human Resource Development: Overview

Ineke Huitema, HRD Coordinator, TBCAP

• Powerpoint: Human Resource Development in TB Control

PVO Tools and Stories from the Field: Indonesia

Khrist Roy, CARE

• Powerpoint: Developing a Web-Based Training Course for Community Based DOTS Treatment Observers (CBTO) In Indonesia

PVO Stories from the Field: Ukraine

M. D’Arcy Richardson, Technical Director, TB Program, PATH

• Powerpoint: Decreasing TB Treatment Default in Ukraine

Community-Based Mobilization and Advocacy

Emily Bell, Program Officer, Public Health Watch, Open Society Institute

• Powerpoint: Community-Based Mobilization and Advocacy

Summarizing the two days. Prioritizing the "Hot Topics" for NGO internal use, and for ACSM

Leo Ryan

Exercise and group discussion.

Closing and Evaluation

Irene Koek