Civil society organisations and affected communities play a vital role in the efforts to combat TB in the European Region. This has been recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and national authorities in various strategic documents such as World Health Assembly resolutions on TB. For the Ministerial Forum ‘All Against Tuberculosis’, civil society will set out a vision of their role in the battle against TB in the form of an ‘Offer of Partnership’ which will state what civil society can offer to governments and health authorities and their expectations in return for this partnership.
How can you get involved?
If you register on the specially created website for the event you will be able to participate in the online discussion forum. The best place to start is by reading the draft Ministerial Declaration and the specially written background document ‘Untapped Potential: engaging civil society to fight the TB emergency in Europe’. A Russian language version of this document is being prepared and will be available soon.
The drafting process for the ’Offer of Partnership’ There is a transparent editing process that allows input by a broad group of interested individuals and organisations. The editing process will be completed on 12 October 2007, and the resulting document translated into Russian. The ’Offer of Partnership’ will be formally presented to the Ministers of Health at the Ministerial Forum on 22 October 2007.
