Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus Course on Pharmaceutical Management of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis: Trip Report Romania, January 24 - 28, 2005

RPM Plus is collaborating with the Stop TB Green Light Committee (GLC) to promote pharmaceutical management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MRD-TB). One of the collaborative activities is to conduct training workshops for TB and essential medicines for directors of countries that have applied to the GLC. The course “Pharmaceutical Management of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis” described in this report was conducted in Bucharest Romania on January 24-28 2005. Participants who attended were from the National TB Program and other departments within the Ministry of Health (MoH) the National Insurance House pharmaceutical distributors and representatives of international agencies. The course covered the following subjects: selection procurement distribution use and management support. Facilitators of the course were from Management Sciences for Health Green Light Committee and Partners in Health. (excerpt)