National Tuberculosis (TB) Conference, Abuja 2019 THEME: Building Stronger Partnerships to End TB
The National TB Conference will bring together all stakeholders and international partners to discuss how to end TB. Despite incremental progress in the quality of TB treatment and care over the years as evidenced by the 85% treatment success rate and 85% uptake of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among HIV-positive TB patients, the overall TB treatment coverage remains low at 25% in 2017, and case notifications have stagnated over the past five years. This situation translates to 75% of TB patients being missed annually. Of equally great concern to the TB program is the increasing gap in access to TB services for the pediatric population and other vulnerable groups.
OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE:
- Create an avenue to bring together all stakeholders in TB control, to improve synergy and to foster access to research, technologies and innovations in TB control.
- To stimulate new collaborations for home grown TB research and innovations.
- Create awareness and promote best practices in TB programming in the region.
- Provide platform to foster the design of evidence based policies for improved TB control in the region.
