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EMR Trachoma Alliance conducts a Trachoma Action Plan (TAP) Training Workshop
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| November 2014 |
The EMR trachoma alliance is organizing a training workshop for the development of Trachoma Action
Plan. It will train 10 people from different EMR towards development of a trachoma action plan in
their countries. The training will take place from 16 - 17 December 2014 in Bahrain. The workshop
aims to build the capacity of the participants to:
- Facilitate the development of the trachoma action plans in countries of the EMR needing a TAP
- Assist countries understand key concepts related to trachoma control
- Support and mentor trachoma programme development where needed
The trainers are Dr Paul Courtright and Chad Arthur. The meeting is being funded by CBM, Fred
Hollows Foundation and Sightsavers International.
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3rd EMR Trachoma Alliance Meeting
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| November 2014 |
The EMR trachoma alliance will conduct its 3rd meeting from 18 - 19 December 2014 in
Bahrain. Some of the agenda for the meeting are:
- Review progress of development of mapping proposals to GTMP including how to map refugees areas Review progress of mapping in countries in the process of mapping
- Post mapping- what next?
- Review development of TAPs and SAFE implementations in countries
- Update on 'Qatar creating vision' Orbis proposal
The meeting is being funded by CBM, Fred Hollows Foundation and Sightsavers International.
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EMR Annual Regional Meeting 2014
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| November 2014 |
The IAPB-EMR will be holding its 2014 annual meeting in Bahrain form 20 - 21 December 2014. The main
theme of the meeting is “Health Management Information System for Eye health” and the sub theme of
“Universal Eye Health: The Global Action plan 2014-19”. The meeting has the following objectives:
- To sensitize the National Coordinators (NCs) for Eye health and representatives of Ministries of Health ( MOH) in charge of HMIS on the importance of HMIS in improving eye health care
- To identify health information needs and potential of various data sources for collection
- To identify major challenges to inclusion of eye health data within HMIS
- To learn good practices in the use of eye health indicators in HMIS in member countries
- To suggest measures to incorporate eye health data into HMIS.
- To review progress of EMR countries in the development and or implementation of the new global action plan: Universal eye health 2014-19.
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Pakistan and Oman develop their new National Eye Health Action Plan
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| November 2014 |
Pakistan and the State of Oman develop their new national eye health action plan.
Pakistan held an all stakeholders meeting from 25 - 26 October 2014 in Islamabad to develop
their plan in line with the new WHO Global Action Plan: Universal Eye health 2014-19. While the
state of Oman had its stakeholders meeting in Muscat from 2 - 5 November. Both meetings
were being organized by the respective Ministries of Health in collaboration with the World health
Organization.
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