What’s new in WHO TB strengthening surveillance?
Supporting countries to transition to case-based, digital surveillance
The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the University of Oslo, organized a webinar on the guidance, products and support for implementation that is available to countries to fully transition to case-based, digital surveillance systems for TB on 8th July 2022.
The objectives of the webinar were to:
- provide an overview of WHO’s available, and in development products, to support transition to case-based, digital surveillance for TB;
- provide a demo of the WHO DHIS2 TB tracker for patient surveillance and monitoring of programme activities;
- share country experiences from recent implementation attempts of the DHIS2 TB tracker;
- provide an overview of support that is available to countries for the implementation of DHIS2 digital packages for TB;
- provide an opportunity for an interactive discussion between the panel and webinar participants.
Watch the webinar recording here:
Speakers:
Marek Lalli (WHO)
Michelle Monroe (the Global Fund)
Vittoria Crispino (UiO)
Yury Rogachev (UiO)
Emmanuel Nkiligi (NTP Tanzania)
The seminar was chaired by Charalampos (Babis) Sismanidis (WHO), with opening remarks from Tereza Kasaeva (WHO, Director of GTB).
Live Q&A was managed by Peter Nguhiu (WHO).