10-March-2010
Events & Meetings
The APPG on Global Tuberculosis facilitates regular meetings with experts and key stakeholders in order to receive briefings on and debate key issues in the field of global TB control. Details of upcoming and past events can be found below.
For more information about upcoming events contact the APPG's coordinator.
| Date | Events | Details | Time | Location |
| 24/03/10 |
World TB Day Event |
Launch of Target TB's photo exhibition 'Hope - Stories from India', and Stop TB's 2010 Campaign for Tuberculosis. | 18.30 - 20.30 |
Westminster Contact Dominique at intern@targettb.org for further information and to reserve a place |
| 08/03/10 | Open discussion/ Call to action |
Urgent call to action on global health organised by Action for Global Health coalition Contact: ukadvocacy to register and for further information |
17.15- 19.30 | Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Room, Houses of Parliament |
| 04/12/09 | Workshop |
Engaging Parliamentarians in the fight against TB |
13.30-17.00 | IUATLD Conference, Mexico |
| 03/12/09 | Open Meeting | Report launch: Tackling Tuberculosis in England: the PCT response to the challenge | 12.30-13.00 | QEII conference centre,Westminster |
| 26/11/09 | Closed Roundtable Meeting | TB and HIV/AIDS: Ensuring sustainable treatment for the future | 08.00-10.00 | Dining room C, House of Commons |
| 24/11/09 | Open Meeting |
Combatting tuberculosis: From social determinants to policy bottlenecks |
14.00-16.00 | Committee Room 20, House of Commons |
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10/11/09 |
Closed event | Exhibition launch event: Airborne: A journey into the challenges anf solutions to stopping MDR-TB and XDR-TB | 19.00-21.00 | IPU Room, House of Commons |
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09/07/09 |
Open Meeting |
Report launch: Turning UK TB policy into action: the view from the frontline |
13.00-16.00 |
Grimond Room, Portcullis House |
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07/07/09 |
Open Meeting |
TB in London: The strategic response to the epidemic in our capital |
10:00-12:00 |
Committee Room 7, House of Commons |
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30/06/09 |
Closed Meeting |
AGM |
09.30-10.30 |
Room P, Portcullis House |
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20/05/09 |
Open Meeting |
Beyond BCG: Towards an effective new vaccine for TB |
13:00-15:00 |
Committee Room 7, House of Commons |
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12/05/09 |
Open Meeting |
Diseases of Poverty: Current progress towards MDG 6 in Latin America |
16:00-18:00 |
CPA Room, House of Commons |
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29/04/09 |
Open Meeting |
Integrating TB and HIV Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: How it works in Practice |
10:00-12:00 |
Committee Room 13, House of Commons |
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28/04/09 |
Closed Meeting |
Post-briefing session: Malawi delegation |
9:30 - 11:00 |
Room O, Portcullis House |
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24/02/09 |
Open Meeting |
Monitoring progress towards the Millennium Development Goals: the global taskforce on TB impact measurement |
14:00-16:00 |
Committee Room 7, House of Commons |
| 19/11/08 | Open meeting | Briefing session: TB drug resistance: latest global situation, international response and outstanding challenges | 14.30-16.00 | Committee Room 8, House of Commons |
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22/10/08 |
Roundtable meeting |
Are Your HIV Services Meeting International Standards? Joint meeting with APPG AIDS Download Meeting notes |
13:00-14:30 |
Room W1, House of Commons, London |
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14/10/08 |
Open meeting |
The engagement, prevention and treatment of TB in hard-to-reach groups in the UK Download |
13:30-15:00 |
Committee Room 7, House of Commons, London |
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17/09/08 |
Conference |
Co-organisers of TB Symposium, HPA Annual Conference |
9:00-16:30 |
Warwick University |
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01/04/08 |
Open meeting |
COMDIS: Overcoming barriers to TB treatment & diagnosis Download meeting notes |
13:00 - 14:00 |
Committee Room 17, House of Commons, London |
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26/03/08 |
Open meeting |
Putting Tuberculosis on the Local Agenda. Launch of APPG report. |
18:30 - 20:00 |
Macmillan Suite, Portcullis House, London |
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18/03/08 |
Briefing meeting |
India's Tuberculosis Epidemic. Joint meeting with Indo-British APPG |
10:30 - 12:00 |
Committee Room 6, House of Commons, London |
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17/03/08 |
Open meeting |
Launch of WHO annual TB surveillance report |
10:00 - 11:30 |
Jubillee Room, House of Commons, London |
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21/01/08 |
Open meeting |
APPG Malaria meeting with Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. |
16:00 - 17:30 |
Committee Room 9, House of Commons, London |
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06/12/07 |
BTS Winter Conference |
A presentation of results from the APPG on Global TB's survey of PCTs. Download meeting notes |
12:00 - 13:30 |
QEII Conference Centre, London |
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28/11/07 |
Open meeting |
HIV and TB: two diseases, one response? Joint APPG TB and AIDS meeting. |
16:00 - 17:30 |
Committee Room 9, House of Commons, London |
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09/07/07 |
Open meeting |
Action for Global Health Policy Report Launch - hosted by APPGs on AIDS and Reproductive Health |
15:30 - 17:30 |
Jubillee Suite, Portcullis House, London |
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04/07/07 |
Open meeting |
Addressing the Health Worker Crisis in Africa: Forum hosted by AMREF and APPGs on TB, AIDS and Malaria. |
16:00 - 17:30 |
Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, London |
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13/06/07 |
Briefing meeting |
Informal meeting to discuss what role the APPG on Global TB can play in addressing the growing incidence of TB in the UK |
10:00 - 11:30 |
Room T, Portcullis House, London |
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16/05/07 |
Briefing meeting |
Briefing from Dr. Jerald C. Sadoff, President and CEO of Aeras Global Vaccine Foundation |
16:00 - 17:30 |
Room O, Portcullis House, London |
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24/04/07 |
Open meeting |
Sir Richard Feachem, former Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, was invited to speak about his experience of the first five years of the Global Fund |
17:00 - 19:00 |
Committee Room 7, House of Commons, London |
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22/03/07 |
Open meeting |
TB Everywhere is TB Anywhere - launch of APPG Agenda for Action and WHO TB Control Report 2007 |
16:00 - 18:30 |
Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, London |
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23/01/07 |
Briefing meeting |
Julie Morgan received briefing from the British Thoracic Society on the growing incidence of TB in the UK |
10:00 - 11:00 |
Room W4, Westminster Hall, London |
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20/11/06 |
Open meeting |
Nick Herbert met with representatives from NGOs, academics, TB practitioners and experts to discuss priority areas for the APPG to address in the coming year. |
15:00 - 16:00 |
Wilson Room, Portcullis House, London |
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25/10/06 |
Inaugural meeting |
Global TB: Challenges and Opportunities - speakers: Dr. Mario Raviglione, Director of WHO Stop TB Department; Gareth Thomas MP, Under-Secretary of State for International Development; Dr. Bobby John, Global Health Advocates and Winstone Zulu, patient advocate. |
14:00 - 15:30 |
Committee Room 8, House of Commons, London |