The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge and the Cambodian National Tuberculosis Program, together with the TB-Speed consortium are organizing a national restitution symposium of the TB-Speed Project results in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on July 5 and 6, 2022, in the presence of His Excellency the Professor MAM Bunheng, Minister of Health.

This research project, which aims to reduce TB mortality in children by improving diagnosis, was deployed between 2017 and 2022 in seven limited-resources countries with a high incidence of tuberculosis: Cambodia, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. The TB-Speed Research project is funded by Unitaid, Initiative-Expertise France and ANRS|Emerging infectious diseases.

In Cambodia, the national symposium for the restitution of project results will bring together project partners, main stakeholders, TB-Speed scientific committee members, representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO), key actors in the fight against tuberculosis along with the team of the National Tuberculosis Program of Cambodia.

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