RECORDING NOW ONLINE: Webinar 'Prepping Health Systems (public & private) for a TB wave: Modelling the impact of COVID-19 on TB', 3 June 2020, TBPPM Webinar
Recorded Webinar and presentations now online for viewing: Click HERE to view the full webinar or in our YouTube Channel, to click to listen to the audio, and HERE to join the ongoing discussion.
As countries are in lockdown in response to COVID-19, it is becoming clear that TB services are being disrupted all over the world. Projections on the TB burden due to COVID-19 are showing millions of additional deaths and people suffering from TB. View and download the presentation from the webinar
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Modelling the potential impact of COVID-19 on TB - Nim Arinaminpathy, Imperial College, London |
Philippe Glaziou, WHO |
Preparing health systems for a TB wave during the COVID-19 crisis Tereza Kasaeva, WHO |
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See here a few highlights from the presentations
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For more information:
Two important modelling papers have been published in the recent weeks:
- The potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis: a modelling analysis - Lucia Cilloni, Nimalan Arinaminpathy, et al.
- Predicted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global tuberculosis deaths in 2020 - Philippe Glaziou
Below are links to the documents referred to during the presentation:
Other resources:
- TB and COVID information on WHO website
- WHO webpage on COVID-19
- Stop TB Partnership: TB and COVID-19