PROJECT TEAM


The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia, as a principal donation recipient, and with the aim of realization of the Project “Control of Tuberculosis in Serbia through the Implementation of DOTS Strategy and Outreach Services”, organized separate project unit.

Full-time staff of the Project unit:

  • Project Coordinator – Doctor Nataša Lazarević Petrović, MD
  • Procurement Officer – Milan Teofilović
  • Finance Officer – Mila Cirić
  • Operations Officer – Olivera Lepojević
  • Administrative Assistants – Jelena Stefanović

The expert team making up the second part of the Project unit has been selected from among the members of the National TB Commission of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia:

  • Professor Goradana Radosavljević Ašić, MD, PhD
  • Professor Slobodan Pavlović, MD, PhD
  • Professor Predrag Rebić, MD, PhD
  • Professor Branislava Savić, MD, PhD
  • Professor Vesna Kuruc, MD, PhD
  • Doctor Radmila Ćurčić, MD

Coordinator of the Project is obliged to report regularly on work of the Project Unit to the Minister of health, the HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Projects Coordinating Council as well as the donor, the Global Fund to Fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, either directly or through UNOPS, as local representative.

National TB Commission was established by a decision of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia on 11 June 2004 with the following tasks:

- Establishment of an optimum approach to prevention of tuberculosis and proposal of adequate measures in the preventive approach to tuberculosis and complications;

- Establishment of an optimum approach and proposal of adequate measures with a view to rationalization and bringing up to date of tuberculosis diagnostics and complications;

- Defining optimum approach and proposal of adequate measures with a view to rationalization and bringing up to date of tuberculosis therapy and elimination of major problems;

- Preparation and realization of basic principles of the system of education of both health professionals and patients in the field of tuberculosis prevention, diagnostics and therapy;

- Preparation of a proposal for working out a national strategy for fight against tuberculosis;

- Preparation of a proposal for a good clinical practice guideline for the disease, and

- Coordination of projects relating to the field.