GUIDING QUESTIONS:
1- Are women more at risk of TB and do they face heightened stigma and discrimination related to TB because of deeply entrenched gender-based inequalities? Please share examples and testimonies if any. What should be done to bring in the desired change?
2- What can be done to early diagnose women with TB, confirm the diagnosis and provide standard treatment and support to them to get successfully cured?
3- Are there specific challenges faced by women with MDR-TB? How can we address these challenges?
4- Are there best practice examples of private-public partnership (PPP) that have improved TB care for women?
5- Are there best practice examples of successfully implemented TB-HIV collaborative activities that address issues faced by women co-infected with TB and HIV? Please share.
Please send your responses by 10th March 2013.
RESOURCES
Stop TB Strategy
Global Plan to Stop TB: 2011-2015
World TB Day website
Global Tuberculosis Control Report 2012
Whole Is Greater Than Sum Of Its Parts: CNS report 2011
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