Division Capacity building and training in high burden countries on tuberculosis control (evidence-based standards) and at risk populations

The European Commission called on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in March 2007 to develop a proposal for an action plan to fight tuberculosis (TB) in the EU^f1. Many EU Member States show a positive evolution in TB trends and will likely move towards a pre-eradication situation. However, there are still very diverse situations between countries^f2, and control efforts are challenged by problems such as drug resistant TB and high level of transmission within vulnerable groups.

• Support to Member States in the fight against tuberculosis, in particular in the high burden countries. Capacity building and training would contribute to building up of national plans. There is also a need to develop and adapt methods for control in low prevalence countries, when TB is focused in specific hard to reach risk groups.

• The development of tools to evaluate control programmes performance based on cohort analysis.

  [Call for proposals for projects]