CNS: [Call to register] Webinar: When HIV virus and TB bacteria can work together, why can't we?

[Watch webinar recording] [Listen or download audio podcast] In lead up to World AIDS Day 2017, it is important to review that despite strong scientific evidence-backed policies and programmes, we are still failing to avert every TB related death among people living with HIV (PLHIV). TB continues to be the lead killer of PLHIV.

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According to the latest WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2017, 374,000 TB related deaths were among PLHIV in 2016. Of the almost half a million reported cases of HIV-associated TB, 15% were not on antiretroviral therapy (ART) as recommended by WHO. TB preventive treatment is expanding among PLHIV but most people eligible for TB preventive treatment are not accessing it. In 2016, an estimated 10.4 million people fell ill with TB in 2016: 10% were PLHIV (74% in Africa).

According to the WHO, the risk of developing TB is estimated to be between 16-27 times greater in PLHIV than among those without HIV infection.

We invite you to have a direct interface with noted experts in World AIDS Day Webinar, on the progress made in averting premature deaths due to TB among PLHIV, and insights on how can we scale up the TB HIV collaborative activities so that we can end AIDS and TB both by 2030 (Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs).

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Date: Tuesday, 28th November 2017

Time: 1pm - 2pm Geneva time

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Panel of experts:

[Presentation slides] [Watch 5:40 - 24:55 of webinar recording for this presentation] Dr Linda-Gail Bekker, President of International AIDS Society; and Professor of medicine and Deputy Director, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Chief Operating Officer, Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation,

[Watch 24:55 - 33:30 of webinar recording for this presentation] Dr Ishwar Gilada, President of AIDS Society of India (ASI); one of the first doctors who began HIV care when first case got diagnosed in 1986 in India; and founder leader of People's Health Organization (PHO)

[Watch 33:30 - 41:30 of webinar recording for this presentation] Nomampondo Barnabas, a TB survivor and person living with HIV; and Civil Society Liaison Officer, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union)

Moderators

Ashok Ramsarup, International award winning journalist and former Senior Producer, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Durban, South Africa
Shobha Shukla, Managing Editor, CNS (Citizen News Service) and lead author and editor of Best Practices in Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis 2013

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