02.11.2018

Partner Meeting LHL International How to find the missing cases of tuberculosis?

On October 28, 2018, LHL international initiated a meeting with LHL international partners which was held in the Hague.

The meeting was devoted to the challenges of TB control facing the world community, including the partners of LHL International:

- To find missing people with TB, accounting for more than 40 million people globally according to WHO, that are individuals affected by TB but are either not diagnosed, treated or included in the public health reporting system and continue spreading the disease in population.

WHO has set a goal to find and provide treatment to 40 million people suffering from tuberculosis and who have not reached medical institutions by 2020. At the meeting, LHL International invited all participants to share experiences and ideas on approaches to finding such cases.

- Anticorruption was also discussed at the meeting. . The presentation was made by Chantal Følling, Financial Advisor of LHL international.

- The results, the adoption of the Declaration on the fight against TB and some of the conclusions of HLM in New York in September 2018 were presented to the participants by Laila Iren Løchting, Senior Advisor of LHL International.

- Partners from Zambia, Sudan, Malawi, Tanzania, Romania shared their experience in finding missing cases of tuberculosis.

- Alexandra Avdeeva, Manager/Interpretor of the EB Fund gave a presentation "Our Steps in Finding Missing Cases of Tuberculosis in the Arkhangelsk Oblast".

The meeting was rolled up with a group work which was aimed at finding answers to the following questions:

1. What are the main approaches that can ensure finding missing cases?

2. What is LHL International brand?

3. How to track the commitment of states to the Declaration on TB, adopted at HLM in New York in September 2018?

The meeting was attended by more than 25 representatives of public organizations involved in the prevention of tuberculosis and HIV infection in Malawi, Zambia, Sudan, Tanzania, Romania, Russia and Norway.