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IMPACT TB represented at 2023 UNION Conference

Posted on: November 22, 2023

The 2023 Union World Conference on Lung Health took place in Paris from 15-18th November. As this was the first in-person Union event since the pandemic, it was a great opportunity for those work on the IMPACT TB project to see each other…Read More »

2023 UNION CONFERENCE ON LUNG HEALTH: PREVIEW

Posted on: October 05, 2023

The 2023 Union World Conference on Lung Health will take place in Paris from 15-18th November. The conference theme, Transforming Evidence into Practice, explores the challenges facing global health research. Generating new evidence from research projects and presenting the results or publishing it…Read More »

Dr Maxine Caws visits New York as part of UN High Level meeting on TB

Posted on: September 25, 2023

The UN High Level meeting took place on 22nd September. IMPACT TB Principal Investigator, Dr Maxine Caws, was in New York to meet with a wide variety of TB stakeholders and attended numerous events related to the High Level meeting. Dr Caws met…Read More »

IMPACT TB team join BNMT Trustees meeting in London

Posted on: September 11, 2023

Dr Maxine Caws and Andrew Carey of IMPACT TB joined the Britain Nepal Medical Trust trustees at their meeting at Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Health office in London on 5th September 2023. The meeting was a chance for the Nepal team…Read More »

IMPACT TB Health Economist, Anchal Thapa, visits UK team

Posted on: July 11, 2023

On the 20th of May, 2023 I arrived in the UK feeling ecstatic to be back in the country that gave me so much memories during my time, doing my Masters. It was a Saturday, and I immediately got the taste of Liverpool’s…Read More »

Congratulations to Dr Suman Chandra Gurung

Posted on: June 01, 2023

IMPACT TB would like to congratulate the former Chief Executive of BNMT in Nepal, Dr Suman Chandra Gurung, on successfully defending his PhD at his Viva in Kathmandu. Dr Gurung has more than 27 years of experience in health & development work in…Read More »

Project Management Training takes place in Bardiya

Posted on: May 09, 2023

IMPACT TB Project Manager at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Andrew Carey, spent one week with the District Programme Coordinators and Community Health Supervisors in Bardiya in April 2023 to deliver training on IT skills and Project Management frameworks.Read More »

BNMT team visit UK partners

Posted on: April 25, 2023

Members of the IMPACT TB team at the Birat Nepal Medical Trust in Kathmandu visited the UK as part of our capacity building and knowledge sharing programmes. Rajesh Parajuli, Soma Rai and Gyanendra Shrestha took part in leadership and safeguarding training workshops in…Read More »

Commemoration of World TB Day 2023

Posted on: March 13, 2023

IMPACT TB marked World TB Day 2023 on 24th March by holding numerous events in Nepal based on this year’s theme “Yes! We Can End TB”. The BNMT team at both central and district levels participated in various TB awareness activities including a…Read More »

53RD UNION WORLD CONFERENCE ON LUNG HEALTH 2023

Posted on: February 14, 2023

The 53rd Union World Conference on Lung Health will take place in Paris from 15-18 November 2023. The conference theme, Transforming Evidence into Practice, explores the challenges facing global health research. Generating new evidence from research projects and presenting the results or publishing…Read More »

Professor Luis Cuevas (1956-2023)

Posted on: January 13, 2023

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Professor Luis Cuevas, who passed away on Monday 2nd January 2023. Known for his work in epidemiology and the diagnosis of infectious diseases in the tropics, particularly tuberculosis, Luis was a key…Read More »

Rajindra Napit of Nepal’s Center for Molecular Dynamics visits UK Partners

Posted on: December 15, 2022

Rajindra Napit of the Center for Molecular Dynamics (Nepal) visited the UK in November as part of the Epidemic Intelligence programme, visiting partners at LSTM, St Andrews and LSHTM. He also undertook genomic training at Cambridge University for 1 week at the Ian…Read More »

Birat Nepal Medical Trust celebrates 10 years!

Posted on: October 03, 2022

Congratulations to our IMPACT TB partner, the Birat Nepal Medical Trust, on delivering 10 years of incredible health research programmes across Nepal. To help celebrate, the team were delighted to be joined by the UK ambassador, Nicola Politt; founding member, Rosemary Boere; and…Read More »

READ-It Project meeting takes place in Kathmandu

Posted on: September 21, 2022

The Birat Nepal Medical trust was delighted to host an international meeting of the READ-It project in September 2022. The Research, Evidence and Development Initiative (READ-It), led by Prof Paul garner of LSTM, is an accountable grant funded by UK aid through the…Read More »

Project Management Training takes place in Hetauda

Posted on: June 13, 2022

IMPACT TB Project Manager at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Andrew Carey, spent 1 week with the District Programme Coordinators and Community Health Supervisors in Hetauda in May 2022 to deliver training on IT skills and Project Management frameworks.Read More »

Health Economics Training in Nepal

Posted on: May 23, 2022

In April 2022, Community Mobilisers and District Project Coordinators in Nepal took part in training workshops for IMPACT TB across Nepal. This was led by Dr Noemia Siqueira from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in collaboration with our new Health Economist, Anchal…Read More »

MICROSCOPY CENTRE CAPACITY BUILDING IN NEPAL

Posted on: April 25, 2022

Prof Andrew Ramsay, with assistance from Research Associate Bhola Rai (BNMT), has been visiting microscopy centres in Nepal to assess current facilities and to deliver intensive training in microscopy management and sputum collection as well as tailored support to laboratory staff in Mahotarri…Read More »

BNMT marks World TB Day 2022 with public engagement activities in Nepal

Posted on: March 28, 2022

BNMT in Nepal has used World TB Day to raise awareness of the disease by holding numerous events across Nepal. The slogan for World TB Day 2022, held on Thursday 24th March, is ‘Invest to End TB, Save Lives’, which reiterates the need…Read More »

BNMT Intern, Bigyan Subedi , writes poem for World TB Day

Posted on: March 23, 2022

One of our interns at the Birat Nepal Medical Trust, Bigyan Subedi, has written and recited a poem on TB awareness for World TB Day on Thursday 24th March. You can watch Bigyan recite the poem here.Read More »

IMPACT TB celebrates 5 years of TB research in Nepal and Vietnam

Posted on: January 06, 2022

We are so proud to have been part of global research efforts in TB over the past 5 years. In Vietnam, we expanded a successful case finding project to six districts of Ho Chi Minh City. While in Nepal, we have implemented our…Read More »

52ND UNION WORLD CONFERENCE ON LUNG HEALTH

Posted on: September 23, 2021

The 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health will take place virtually from 19-22 October 2021. The conference theme, Lung Health for All: Solutions for a New Era, explores the challenges facing global health. With the world still in the grip of a…Read More »

New COVID-19 research project launches in Nepal

Posted on: August 23, 2021

As the world has become more interconnected, our vulnerability to devastating pandemics following rapid dissemination of novel emerging pathogens has never been greater. The global SARS-COV-2 pandemic engulfed the world in 2020 with unprecedented social, economic and political consequences. The events surrounding the…Read More »

IMPACT TB IS HIRING!

Posted on: July 30, 2021

The IMPACT TB programme is looking to recruit a Nepali-speaking postdoctoral health economist to join our dynamic team based at the Birat Nepal Medical Trust's head office in Kathmandu. The successful candidate will conduct health economic evaluations of active case finding interventions and…Read More »

Olivia Biermann of Karolinska publishes her PhD thesis

Posted on: May 04, 2021

IMPACT TB PhD student Olivia Biermann, of Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), has published her PhD thesis on barriers and support in global fight against tuberculosis. At a global level, tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the deadliest infection diseases, affecting an estimated 10 million…Read More »

WORLD TB DAY 2021

Posted on: March 24, 2021

World TB Day is 24th March and this year's theme is ‘The Clock is Ticking’. TB is preventable & curable, yet kills millions of people worldwide. IMPACT TB has been working hard to reach those in isolated areas of Nepal who are at…Read More »

*NEW* IMPACT TB PUBLICATION FROM KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET

Posted on: March 15, 2021

The IMPACT TB team at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden continue to publish their results from the programme. Their latest publication is entitled: 'A double-edged sword': Perceived benefits and harms of active case finding for people with presumptive tuberculosis and communities-A qualitative study based…Read More »

Second phase of IMPACT TB project officially begins

Posted on: February 23, 2021

The IMPACT 2 TB project kick-off meeting was held in Kathmandu on 22nd February 2021. The project team came together with the key government stakeholders for a dynamic discussion on developing a common understanding on the implementation plan. There was an encouraging reception…Read More »

BNMT’s anti-TB Drone project wins international innovation award

Posted on: December 14, 2020

The Drone Optimised Therapy System (DrOTS) by implemented by BNMT in collaboration with the Nepal Flying Labs has won the TIACA Air Cargo Sustainability Awards (2020). The Awards aim to celebrate and encourage outstanding industry initiatives driving sustainability in air cargo. DrOTS uses…Read More »

IMPACT TB publishes key Vietnam findings

Posted on: December 10, 2020

The IMPACT TB team at FIT Vietnam conducted a two-year, controlled intervention study in 12 districts of Ho Chi Minh City. They engaged community health workers as salaried employees (3 districts) or incentivized volunteers (3 districts) to conduct Active Case Finding among contacts…Read More »

*New* IMPACT TB Publication from Karolinska Institutet

Posted on: November 03, 2020

The IMPACT TB team at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has published more of their findings from the programme in a new publication entitled: 'Active case-finding policy development, implementation and scale-up in high-burden countries: A mixed-methods survey with National Tuberculosis Programme managers and document…Read More »

Kritika Dixit of BNMT Nepal talks to us about her work on IMPACT TB

Posted on: September 28, 2020

Kritika Dixit (BNMT Nepal) kindly agreed to be interviewed during her visit to the UK to attend the European Tropical Medicine Conference in Liverpool. Some of the topics we discussed were the current status of TB prevalence in Nepal and the important role…Read More »

NEW publication from Olivia Biermann of IMPACT TB!

Posted on: June 03, 2020

  We are delighted to announce the latest IMPACT TB publication from lead author Olivia Biermann and her colleagues at Karolinska Institutet: ‘Power plays plus push’: experts’ insights into the development and implementation of active tuberculosis case-finding policies globally, a qualitative study. This…Read More »

First national TB prevalence survey in Nepal published

Posted on: May 13, 2020

The first ever national TB  prevalence survey in Nepal has revealed a very high burden of TB. The new estimates are 245/100,000 for incidence and 416/100,000 for prevalence. A staggering 40,000 TB cases go undiagnosed or unnotified every year in Nepal.  This underlines…Read More »

Gabriela Gomes takes up new role at prestigious university

Posted on: May 05, 2020

Our Heartiest Congratulations to our modeling lead Gabriela Gomes on her appointment to a chair at University of Strathclyde. Congratulations Professor Gomes! She has been at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine since 2015 and has worked on IMPACT TB since 2017 leading…Read More »

IMPACT TB Project Manager visits Nepal

Posted on: December 10, 2019

                      IMPACT TB's Project Manager, Andrew Carey, visited BNMT colleagues at the Kathmandu office in November 2019 and wrote about his experience before leaving his role in early 2020: As Project Manager for…Read More »

BNMT’s Saki Thapa and Bikram Bucha visit LSTM

Posted on: December 02, 2019

  LSTM was delighted to welcome Saki Thapa and Bikram Bucha of the Birat Nepal Medical Trust in November 2019. Saki has kindly written to us about her experience: Every journey is a quest, whether you know it or not. My journey started…Read More »

IMPACT 2 TB: Funding secured for Phase 2 of IMPACT TB

Posted on: November 12, 2019

    After the successful completion of the first phase of the IMPACT TB project, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will implement the second phase in partnership with the Birat Nepal Medical Trust called: IMPACT 2 TB, ‘Implementation Modeling and Validation to…Read More »

IMPACT TB team participates in 2019 Union Conference on Lung Health

Posted on: November 06, 2019

The Union World Conference on Lung Health is the world’s largest gathering of clinicians and public health workers, health programme managers, policymakers and researchers working to end the suffering caused by lung disease, with a focus specifically on the challenges faced by low-and…Read More »

BNMT Nepal team attend European Tropical Medicine conference in Liverpool

Posted on: September 26, 2019

              A delegation from BNMT Nepal was delighted to represent the IMPACT TB project at the 11th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health held in Liverpool from 16th until 20th September. The ECTMIH brings together…Read More »

IMPACT TB POSTER SESSIONS CONFIRMED FOR UNION 2019

Posted on: September 18, 2019

The 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health is the world’s largest gathering of clinicians and public health workers, policymakers, researchers and advocates working to end the suffering caused by lung disease worldwide. This year's event will take place in Hyderabad, India from…Read More »

IMPACT TB intern Rafaely Costa tells us about her time in Nepal with BNMT

Posted on: September 10, 2019

  Rafaely Costa, from Recife in Brazil, completed an internship with BNMT Nepal in September 2019 after 6 weeks traveling around the country assisting IMPACT TB Health Economist, Dr Noemia Siqueira, with the quality assessment of the data set. On her return to…Read More »

IMPACT TB Short Oral Abstracts finalised for UNION 2019

Posted on: September 02, 2019

IMPACT TB is delighted to confirm our final list of Short Oral Abstracts to be presented at the 50th UNION World Conference on Lung Health to be held in Hyderabad, India between 30th October & 2nd November 2019. The conference theme, ‘Ending the…Read More »

IMPACT TB presentations at the 2019 UNION conference

Posted on: August 12, 2019

IMPACT TB is looking forward to participating at the 50th UNION World Conference on Lung Health to be held in Hyderabad, India between 30th October & 2nd November 2019. The conference theme, ‘Ending the Emergency: Science, Leadership, Action’, focuses on what is needed…Read More »

Diepreye Ayabina represents IMPACT TB at EEID 2019

Posted on: July 22, 2019

  Diepreye Ayabina is a research assistant at LSTM working with Gabriela Gomes on modelling heterogeneity in TB transmission as part of the IMPACT TB .  The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID 2019) conference took place in Princeton, USA in June.…Read More »

IMPACT TB dissemination seminars in Brazil: paving the way for new collaborations between Brazil and Asia

Posted on: July 15, 2019

By Noemia Teixeira de Siqueira Filha (Health economist, IMPACT TB project) In May 2019, I landed in Brazil, my home country, to deliver IMPACT TB dissemination seminars showing successful experiences in the implementation of active tuberculosis (TB) case finding in Nepal and Vietnam.…Read More »

IMPACT-TB policy dialogue workshop held in Nepal

Posted on: July 09, 2019

Following the successful IMPACT-TB consortium meeting on 2nd & 3rd July, Karolinska Institute in Sweden convened a policy dialogue workshop in Nepal in collaboration with the National TB Programme and BNMT Nepal. The workshop brought together stakeholders from the national government, the National…Read More »

IMPACT TB partners assemble in Kathmandu for annual meeting

Posted on: July 05, 2019

With 6 months remaining on the IMPACT-TB project, we held our final consortium meeting on 2nd & 3rd  July 2019 in Kathmandu, Nepal to review progress made since our late meeting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 12 months ago and also to…Read More »

IMPACT TB annual meeting to be held in Kathmandu

Posted on: May 27, 2019

  We are delighted to announce that the IMPACT TB annual meeting for 2019 will take place in Kathmandu and hosted by BNMT-Nepal on 2nd & 3rd July. Consortium partners from the UK (LSTM), Vietnam (FIT), Sweden (KI) and the Netherlands (KNCV) will…Read More »

Drones arrive in Nepal as part of new TB initiative

Posted on: May 17, 2019

  Birat-Nepal Medical Trust has received its first drones as part of a pilot project in collaboration with Stony Brook University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The Nepali Tuberculosis Centre aims to find an additional 20,000 cases by 2021 and these…Read More »

Noemia Siqueira interviewed about her role as a Health Economist

Posted on: April 29, 2019

  Noemia Siqueira, the IMPACT TB health economist, was interviewed by the University of Liverpool to discuss health economics in a Brazilian context and her work at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The interview is in Portuguese but the English transcript can be…Read More »

FIT staff launch media campaign in Vietnam to raise awareness of TB

Posted on: April 23, 2019

  IMPACT TB partner, FIT Vietnam, is currently rapidly expanding its PPM engagement initiative into all project districts. As part of their communications strategy, FIT staff participated in interviews for a social media campaign at their office in Ho Chi Minh City to…Read More »

BNMT celebrates the official handover of GeneXpert machines in Pyuthan district

Posted on: April 17, 2019

  On 12th April 2019, BNMT held an event in Pyuthan district to mark the official handover of a new GeneXpert machine to the district health office. Dr Maxine Caws and Raghu Dhital were delighted to represent IMPACT TB at the ceremony and…Read More »

Exclusive Interview: Diepreye Ayabina discusses her work on IMPACT-TB

Posted on: April 11, 2019

  Diepreye Ayabina is a research assistant at LSTM working with Gabriela Gomes on modelling heterogeneity in TB transmission as part of the IMPACT TB . We sat down with her to discuss the work she has done so far and upcoming plans…Read More »

Olivia Biermann blogs from Nepal exclusively for IMPACT TB

Posted on: April 05, 2019

Olivia Biermann is a PhD student for IMPACT TB based at the  Karolinska Institutet. Her PhD project aims at contributing to a better understanding of the development and the implementation of community-based tuberculosis screening policies in Nepal and Vietnam. ___________________________________________________________________   I’m finally in…Read More »

IMPACT TB holds workshops on research ethics in Nepal

Posted on: April 01, 2019

  On 20th March, Elaine Liptrot of LSTM hosted workshops on research ethics in Chitwan and Makwanpur for IMPACT TB district coordinators and community mobilisers. It is part of our aim to train in-country project staff on the principles of research and ethical…Read More »

‘IT’S TIME!’ – IMPACT TB holds events in Nepal and Vietnam for World TB Day 2019

Posted on: March 27, 2019

  IMPACT TB teams in Vietnam and Nepal organised community events as part of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on 24th March 2019 to support the WHO’s mission to raise awareness of the disease and help promote an end to the stigma and discrimination.…Read More »

FIT Vietnam announces public-private partnership expansion

Posted on: March 20, 2019

We are pleased to confirm that FIT Vietnam’s private sector team is expanding to 5 additional districts of Ho Chi Minh City. A public-private mix is now present in IMPACT districts 6, 8,12, Binh Chanh, Hoc Mon and Tan Binh in addition to…Read More »

IMPACT TB prepares for World TB Day 2019

Posted on: March 10, 2019

            On 24th March 2019, the IMPACT TB team will join forces with leading international health organisations to help commemorate World TB Day in our partner countries, Vietnam and Nepal. We will use the day to raise awareness…Read More »

BNMT hosts successful focus group discussions in IMPACT districts

Posted on: February 21, 2019

As we enter the final year of the IMPACT TB programme, BNMT has hosted focus group discussions in Nepal’s southern districts aimed at understanding and overcoming the challenges to implementing TB projects in Nepal. We invited all project staff and community health volunteers…Read More »

Principle Investigator, Dr Maxine Caws talks at the ISMM Congress on Mountain Medicine, Kathmandu

Posted on: November 28, 2018

The XII ISMM World Congress on Mountain Medicine 2018 was held on the 21st - 24th November in Kathmandu, Nepal. IMPACT TB's Principle Investigator, Dr Maxine Caws, delivered a speech to delegates on high altitude and TB.Read More »

Dr Maxine Caws Interview with the Nepali Times Newspaper

Posted on: November 22, 2018

Dr Maxine Caws, the Principal Investigator of IMPACT TB and senior TB researcher at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, was interviewed by the Nepali Times last month. Dr Caws spoke about meeting the End TB target by 2035, the long term commitment required…Read More »

Visit of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on TB to LSTM

Posted on: November 19, 2018

On Friday 16th November, LSTM had the pleasure of welcoming four members of the UK parliament and other distinguished guests to showcase the pioneering TB research and professional activities being done in Liverpool. The Right Honourable Nick Herbert MP, chair of the All…Read More »

IMPACT TB team participates in 2018 Union Conference on Lung Health

Posted on: November 14, 2018

The Union World Conference on Lung Health is the world’s largest gathering of clinicians and public health workers, health programme managers, policymakers and researchers working to end the suffering caused by lung disease, with a focus specifically on the challenges faced by low-and…Read More »

IMPACT TB to participate in the UNION conference 2018

Posted on: August 15, 2018

Everyone at IMPACT TB is looking forward to attending the 49th UNION World Conference on Lung Health to be held in The Hague, Netherlands between 24th & 27th October 2018. Our partner, the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, is proud to host this year's edition.…Read More »

BNMT welcomes new NTC director

Posted on: August 15, 2018

BNMT would like to congratulate Dr. Bhim Singh Tinkari on his new role as Nepal's new NTC Director. He was welcomed by BNMT at a ceremony in Kathmandu on 7th August. We wish him well and everyone on the IMPACT TB team looks…Read More »

IMPACT TB 18-month Review Meeting

Posted on: June 14, 2018

We are at the half way point of our IMPACT-TB grant and the time has flown by. We all got together on 6th and 7th June 2018, to hold our 18-month progress and planning meeting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The objectives…Read More »

World TB Day 2018- BNMT Nepal

Posted on: April 04, 2018

On March 24, 2018 BNMT Nepal organized World TB Day 2018 events at central and district levels conducting various activities in coordination with the government. To promote TB awareness BNMT distributed T-shirts with the slogan, “Wanted: Leaders for a TB-free world”. At the…Read More »

Microscopy centre capacity building in Nepal

Posted on: April 02, 2018

Dr Andrew Ramsay, with assistance from Research Associate Bhola Rai (BNMT), has been visiting microscopy centres in southern Nepal to assess current facilities and to deliver intensive training and tailored support to microscopy staff in the IMPACT TB's four project districts: Makwanpur, Mahotarri,…Read More »

World TB Day 2018

Posted on: March 26, 2018

World TB Day 2018 took place on 24th March and IMPACT TB partners held numerous events to highlight the disease and raise awareness. Karolinska Institutet launched the Centre for TB Research which will be committed to playing a part in ending the global…Read More »

FIT Latent TB Infection Conference in Hanoi

Posted on: January 30, 2018

Pursuit of the targets set by the WHO’s End TB Strategy in 2015 has led to an increase in interest in searching, testing and detecting all forms and cases of TB, treating them timely and properly, and preventing infected people from developing active…Read More »

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF BNMT

Posted on: November 30, 2017

To mark the 50th Anniversary of Britain Nepal Medical Trust (BNMT), a reception was held at the Nepal Embassy in London hosted by his excellency Dr Durga Bahadur Subedi. BNMT was established in 1967 by a group of young British doctors who had…Read More »

Health Economics and Research Ethics Training in Nepal

Posted on: November 30, 2017

On 23rd November, Community Mobilizers and District Project Coordinators in Nepal took part in training workshops for IMPACT TB at the Hotel Avocado in Hetauda. Research Ethics training was led by Mrs Elaine Liptrot and Health Economics training was led by Dr Noemia…Read More »

FIT receives 2017 TB REACH Initiative’s Prize

Posted on: October 13, 2017

'10th October 2017 - Guadalajara, Mexico - For the second consecutive year, the Stop TB Partnership handed out awards for organizations exceeding in TB excellence during a TB Awards Gala, which took place in Guadalajara on the sidelines of the Union World Conference…Read More »

New BNMT Regional office opens

Posted on: July 20, 2017

BNMT has opened a new regional office in Hetauda province in Nepal for the IMPACT TB, Americares and BLF projects.Read More »

New NTC director appointed in Nepal

Posted on: July 18, 2017

BNMT wishes to congratulate Dr Kedar Narsingh KC on his appointment as the new NTC director for Nepal. Everyone at IMPACT TB looks forward to working with Dr Narsingh and wishes him well in his new role. Read More »

IMPACT TB training sessions take place in Vietnam

Posted on: July 15, 2017

Following the launch of the IMPACT TB project, two-day training sessions have taken place in the Binh Chanh, District 8 and Hoc Mon areas of Ho Chi Minh City. These training sessions aimed to give  participants a more detailed understanding about TB disease…Read More »

The IMPACT TB consortium held a workshop with Nepali stakeholders on 3rd April 2017

Posted on: April 04, 2017

The IMPACT TB consortium held a workshop on 3rd April 2017 hosted with the National TB Centre of Nepal, entitled IMPACT TB consultation meeting with Nepal National TB Centre and stakeholders on Active Case Finding Policy in Nepal: successes, challenges and research priorities.…Read More »

The IMPACT TB consortium held a workshop with the Vietnamese NTP on 31st March 2017

Posted on: April 03, 2017

The IMPACT TB consortium held a workshop on 31st March 2017 hosted with the National TB Programme of Vietnam, entitled IMPACT TB consultation meeting with Viet Nam National TB Programme and stakeholders on Active Case Finding Policy in Viet Nam: successes, challenges and…Read More »

IMPACT TB holds a policy workshop with the National TB Programme of Nepal

Posted on: February 19, 2017

A workshop entitled “‘IMPACT TB consultation meeting with Nepali National TB Programme and stakeholders on Active Case Finding Policy in Nepal: successes, challenges and research priorities’ will be held on 3rd April 2017 in Kathmandu. The workshop will be attended by experienced stakeholders…Read More »

IMPACT TB kick-off meeting Liverpool 28th

Posted on: February 10, 2017

The IMPACT TB kick-off meeting was held at the Radisson hotel, Liverpool on 28th February-1st March 2017. Partners came together for a dynamic 2 days of discussions to review advances in research evidence since the project was conceived and to refine project implementation…Read More »