17. November 2011.

Regional Workshop in Teslić „ Stop Tuberculosis“

A three-day regional workshop on „Stop Tuberculosis“, took place in Teslic on November 15, it involved over 180 representatives of ministries and health institutions throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and FYR Macedonia, with speakers who are experts from European countries. The aim of the workshop organized by UNDP with the consolidated grant funds of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, is to exchange experiences and best practices applied in programs to fight tuberculosis in the countries of the region and consider the possibility of their further improvement.

Prim.dr. Amela Lolić, Deputy Minister of Health and Social Welfare of Republika Srpska, and prim. dr. Aida Pilav, deputy minister for public health, monitoring and evaluation of the Federal Ministry of Health, pointed out that in recent years across the country, the number of patients with tuberculosis is decreasing and that BiH is considered to be among countries with with a high percentage of patients. Decreasing the number of patients is the result of good coordinated program to combat this disease, and one of them is the regional workshop and programs administered by UNDP.

Goran Vukmir, head of the UNDP Regional Office in Banja Luka, said the UNDP is involved in the activites against the fight of combating tuberculosis in BiH since 2005. and since then has successfully organized programs that throughout the country established a system to combat this disease.

This project implemented the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Federal Ministry of Health, Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Republika Srpska and the Department of Health and other services of Brcko District, with support from United Nations Development Programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNDP BiH), with the consolidated assets grant of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.