{"id":18301,"date":"2024-10-08T14:59:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T11:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/?p=18301"},"modified":"2025-02-26T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:04:46","slug":"meeting-minutes-from-the-ecat-meeting-in-istanbul-may-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/meeting-minutes-from-the-ecat-meeting-in-istanbul-may-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Minutes from the ECAT Meeting in Istanbul, May 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In <\/span>May 2024<span class=\"s1\">, the <\/span>Eurasian Community for Access to Treatment (ECAT)<span class=\"s1\"> held a meeting in <\/span>Istanbul<span class=\"s1\"> focused on <\/span>expanding access to tuberculosis (TB) treatment<span class=\"s1\">. The event was organized by <\/span>ITPC EECA<span class=\"s1\"> in collaboration with the <\/span>European Coalition Against TB<span class=\"s1\">. The meeting minutes are available in the <\/span>attachments<span class=\"s1\"> in<\/span>\u00a0English<span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The meeting brought together <\/span>representatives from the public sector<span class=\"s1\"> and <\/span>National TB Programs<span class=\"s1\"> from <\/span>Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan<span class=\"s1\">. Additionally, <\/span>NGOs, civil society representatives<span class=\"s1\"> from the <\/span>EECA region<span class=\"s1\">, and experts from <\/span>WHO, Treatment Action Group (TAG), Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), and UNDP<span class=\"s1\"> participated in the discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During the event, participants <\/span>engaged with pharmaceutical companies Viatris and MacLeods<span class=\"s1\">, as well as the <\/span>TB Alliance<span class=\"s1\">, to discuss <\/span>the production and registration of TB medicines<span class=\"s1\">, <\/span>their availability in the EECA region<span class=\"s1\">, <\/span>pricing policies<span class=\"s1\">, and <\/span>innovative developments<span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/minutes_viatris_eng-2\/\">Minutes_Viatris_ENG<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/minutes_macleods_eng-2\/\">Minutes_Macleods_ENG<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/minutes_macleods_eng-2\/\">Minutes_Macleods_ENG<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/minutes_tballiance_eng-2\/\">Minutes_TBAlliance_ENG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2024, the Eurasian Community for Access to Treatment (ECAT) held a meeting in Istanbul focused on expanding access to tuberculosis (TB) treatment. The event was organized by ITPC EECA in collaboration with the European Coalition Against TB. The meeting minutes are available in the attachments in\u00a0English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18302,"href":"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18301\/revisions\/18302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeca-cat.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}