STAC Annual Report 2016

This is the twenty-first consecutive comprehensive annual report of the SAARC Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Centre (STAC). The report provides summary of the activities carried out by the Centre for the year 2016 along with introduction, goals, objectives, vision, mission and achievements of the Centre.

STAC was set up in 1992, as a SAARC TB Centre which later on renamed as SAARC TB and HIV/AIDS Centre, working for prevention and control of TB and HIV/AIDS in the Region by coordinating the efforts of the National Tuberculosis Control Programmes and National HIV/AIDS Control Programmes of SAARC Member States (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka).