Many National Tuberculosis Programmes (NTPs) receive Technical Assistance (TA) for the implementation and evaluation of their TB-control strategies. KNCV tuberculosis Foundation (KNCV) in the Netherlands is a TA organization providing assistance for many years in over 30 countries. The NTPs use their own surveillance data to assess TB control strategies. These data are not accurate enough to se...

This paper describes the technical assistance system called AUTONOMY which provides AAC, environmental control, safety and security functionality, access to tele-communication and access to internet services for severely motor and multiple disabled persons. Concept and implementation are outlined and a report about experiences from real life usage is given. In the areas of therapy, training, ed...

Up from a certain degree of impairment motorand multiple disabled children rarely are able to use conventional environmental control and augmentative communication systems. To attain this ability, in many cases customer tailored user-interfaces plus a long-time training process is necessary. Even learning the relation between reason and effect and experiencing self-effectiveness (being able to ...