The last 8 years have witnessed great strides in our understanding of the pathogenesis, immunology, and epidemiology of tuberculosis. In the past decade, after too many decades of inaction, new diagnostics and new treatment regimens for tuberculosis (TB) infection, and drug-resistant TB disease have been developed. This 8th edition of the Canadian Thoracic Society Tuberculosis Standards (the Standards) is a set of tools that have been extensively revised to incorporate much of this new information, building upon the 7 previous versions.
Leveraging the knowledge from the Standards, the Stop TB Canada network pulled key findings to develop specific calls-to-actions needed for national TB elimination. Join Stop TB Canada and the Canadian Thoracic Society on December 8th at 1:00pm ET for a webinar on our key recommendations to help inform the development of a National TB Elimination Strategy, including:
Improve TB screening strategies among high-priority groups.
Address the social determinants of health and barriers to TB care.
Improve access to essential medicines for TB treatment.
Implement a timely tuberculosis surveillance infrastructure.
Adopt accountability, monitoring, and evaluation measures for programming.
COVID-19 has reversed years of progress in the fight to end TB, and has exacerbated several upstream drivers of TB burden- we need to get back on track to eliminating TB. Join Stop TB Canada and the Canadian Thoracic Society in calling on Canada to implement an equitable and effective national TB Elimination Plan! Speakers at the webinar include:
Dr. Dick Menzies, Director, McGill International TB Centre
Dr. Christina Greenaway, Infectious Disease Physician & Clinician, McGill International TB Centre
Monica Shandal, TB Survivor & PhD Candidate
Dr. Elizabeth Rea, Associate Medical Officer of Health for TB, Toronto Public Health & co-Chair, Stop TB Canada
Adam Houston, Medical Policy & Advocacy Officer, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada
Dr. Courtney Heffernan, Manager, TB Program Evaluation and Research Unit, University of Alberta,
See the event details below:
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2022
Time: 1:00 PM EST
Register for the event here.
Watch the recording of the webinar here: