08:00 – 09:00 | Registration and Tea

09:00 – 09:05 | Lamp lighting ceremony

09:05 – 09:30 | Opening Remarks and Welcome Note

Dr Farhat Mantoo, Executive Director, MSF South Asia

Chief Guest: Dr Roshan Pokhrel, Health Secretary, Nepal

Special Guest: Dr Sangeeta Kaushal Mishra, Director General, Department of Health Services, Nepal

09:30 – 10:15 | Keynote Address: Nutritional supplementation to prevent TB incidence in household-contacts of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis

Dr Anurag Bhargava, Professor-Medicine, Yenepoya Medical College, Mangalore, India

Dr Madhavi Bhargava, Associate Professor-Community Medicine, Yenepoya Medical College, Mangalore, India

10:15 – 11:35 | Funds – Trickle-down effect, right from the Donors to Beneficiaries

Moderator: Dr Farhat Mantoo, Executive Director, MSF South Asia

Mike Frick, Co-Director-Tuberculosis Program, Treatment Action Group, New York

Dr Shayla Islam, Associate Director, Communicable Disease, BRAC, Bangladesh

Dr Adeel Tahir, Senior Program Manager, Mercy Corps International, Pakistan

Dr Vaishali Venu, Director-Health and Nutrition Program, Doctors for You, India

Dr Kritika Dixit, Research Manager, Birat Nepal Medical Trust, Nepal

Dr Ashish Shrestha, Senior Technical Advisor, Save The Children, Nepal

11:35 – 12:15 | A Talk on the Tuberculosis Prevention

Mike Frick, Co-Director-Tuberculosis Program, Treatment Action Group, New York

Dr Syed Hissar, Scientist-E, ICMR- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

12:15 – 13:30 | Lunch

13:30 – 14:50 | Ensuring TB Treatment and Care Across Diverse Settings

Moderator: Leena Menghaney, Regional Head, Access Campaign, MSF South Asia

Conflict Areas

Afghanistan | Dr Taiba Azizi, Medical doctor, MSF-Kandahar, DR-TB project, Afghanistan

Myanmar | Dr Ni Ni Tun, Lead -HIV innovative research for the Myanmar Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Medical Action Myanmar

Densely populated urban areas

Mumbai/India | Dr Samsuddin Khan, Medical Doctor-DR-TB, MSF-Mumbai, India

Dr Lorraine Rebello, Medical Activity Manager, MSF-Mumbai, India

Pakistan| Dr Saifullah Khan, Deputymedco- MSF Islamabad, Pakistan

Difficult-to-reach populations (geographical constraints)

Nepal | Dr Prajowl Shrestha, Director, National Tuberculosis Control Center, Nepal

14:50 – 15:20 | Fostering Collaboration – Exploring Opportunities and Challenges in Public-Private Partnerships for TB Elimination

Moderator: Dr Ravindra Kumar Dewan, Principal Consultant, National Institute of TB and Respiratory Disease, New Delhi

Dr Adeel Tahir, Senior Program Manager, Mercy Corps International, Pakistan

Rajesh Kumar Yadav, TB Coordinator, Save the Children, Nepal

15:20 – 15:30 | Vote of Thanks & Closing Remarks

Dr Prajowl Shrestha, Director, National Tuberculosis Control Center, Nepal

15:30 – 16:00 | High Tea