The training focuses on building the capacity of health care workers at the primary and secondary level to address and manage TB in children.

The Handbook has been developed for the purpose of describing ways to implement established WHO policies relevant for the management of MDR-TB.

WHO HQ in collaboration with WHO AFRO is organising a training course for consultants in Programmatic Management of Drug-resistant TB (PMDT) in Durban, South Africa from 24 November to 2 December 2014 and is inviting expressions of interest from potential candidates to be considered for training.

Sunday 20 July 2014 | Promenade Room 3, Crowne Promenade, 8 Whiteman St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The handbook shows how to use various data sources, presents existing tools to analyse the quality of data and describes methods to estimate the burden of TB and related trends.

Foreward

Mogilev district, Belarus

WHO is leading the development of a global action plan to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR), as requested by the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly in May 2014.

11 July 2014 ¦ Geneva - Failure to provide adequate HIV services for key groups – men who have sex with men, people in prison, people who inject drugs, sex workers and transgender people – threatens global progress on the HIV response, warns WHO.

WHO and the European Respiratory Society present a new framework to eliminate tuberculosis in countries with low levels of the disease.