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UHC Forum 2017 Satellite symposium
UHC and TB Responses– Mutual contributions: Lessons learnt from Japan and Asian countries
Date
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 18:30-21:00pm*We will provide snacks.
Venue
Hotel MIELPARQUE TOKYO 3rd floor Rose
2-5-20 Shiba kouen Minato-ku Tokyo
Co-organized byRIT/JATA (Research Institute of Tuberculosis/Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association), Stop TB Partnership Japan
Background
Tuberculosis (TB) responses and UHC are closely related to each other and are important elements to SDGs. TB
responses have contributed to UHC expansion at various levels, and the progress of UHC is indispensable forenhancing TB responses. Global discussions are to be held in the official side event ”Reaching the Underserved
and Vulnerable TB responses as a Potential Pathway to UHC”; further analysis and discussion will be made throughlessons from Japan and other Asian countries at this satellite symposium. Particularly in Japan, the experience ofachieving UHC by reducing TB worldwide in the 1960s by reinforcing TB responses can be one model, together
with the current situations and issues of Asian countries. We will discuss mutual contributions of TB responses andexpanding UHC.
PurposeWith Japan as one model that achieved UHC in the 1960s, we will share the relationship between
TB responses and UHC progress and the factors contributing to UHC achievement by TB responses.
Moreover, we will discuss how TB responses can be utilized in accordance with economic and disease situations,and what effects UHC's progress have on TB responses. Experiences of other Asian countries and future issues will
also be discussed.

Target Audience
UHC Forum participants as well as a wider audience of health experts, health workers, academia, medical students,and advocates, mainly in Japan. Participants of the official side event "Reaching the Underserved and Vulnerable
People Potential of TB response as a Pathway to UHC", and those who could not participate it.

ChairSeiya Kato, Director of Research Institute of Tuberculosis, JATA
Kousuke Okada, Board member of Stop TB Partnership Japan
Program
1. Opening Remarks
Manabu Sumi, Director, Global Health Policy Division International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
2. Keynote
Speaker: Osamu Kunii, Head, Strategy, Investment and Impact Division (SIID) The Global Fund toFight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
3. Presentation① Mutual impacts between TB response and UHC– experience of Japan in the process of 10% annual decline
Speaker: Seiya Kato, Director of Research Institute of Tuberculosis② Intersection of progress of UHC and tuberculosis (tentative)- Philippines* TB DOTS package of PhiHealth at PHC level, TB response in the Philippines and how it contributes toUHC etc.
Speaker: National program manager, Philippines③ Intersection of progress of UHC and tuberculosis (tentative)- Myanmar
Speaker: National program manager, Myanmar④ Experience of support from Japan, including Bangladesh case
Speaker: Nobukatsu Ishikawa, Director Emeritus of Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan、Board
member of Stop TB Partnership Japan
4. Comments from Floor *draft① Eric Goosby, USCF School of Medicine; UN Special Envoy on TB② Japan International Cooperation Agency③ Chieko Ikeda, Senior Assistant Minister for Global Health, Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare④ Suvanand Sahu; Deputy Executive Director of Stop TB Partnership
5. Q&A
6. Closing Remarks