[Webinar] Can mHealth help accelerate progress towards ending TB?
Channel: CNS
Date: 2017-08-22

This is the recording of the Webinar on mHealth and TB. Mobile health (mHealth) is being used in different ways by TB programmes in some high-burden countries. A recent study published in June 2017 shows that presumptive-TB case-referral by healthcare providers using mHealth went up manifold.

Currently it is estimated that TB services are not reaching every person in need. To end TB, we need to ensure there is no further spread of TB, as well as, every person with TB gets accurately diagnosed, treated with effective drugs, and cured. 
Can mHealth technologies help accelerate progress towards the goal of ending TB by 2030 globally (SDGs)?

PANEL OF EXPERTS INCLUDED:

* Dr SUNEETHA NARREDDY, senior Infectious Diseases expert, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad. India

* Dr ARCHANA TRIVEDI, senior expert, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), South East Asia office

* Dr CHARLES SANDY, Deputy Director, National AIDS/ TB Programme, Zimbabwe

* (Moderator) Ashok Ramsarup, award-winning senior journalist and former Programme Producer, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Durban, South Africa
    
* (Moderator) Shobha Shukla, Managing Editor, CNS (Citizen News Service)

Thanks to the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union).

CNS Webinars Team
Email: webinar@citizen-news.org
Website: www.citizen-news.org