Report of the Second Meeting of the European Tuberculosis Laboratory Initiative. Copenhagen, Denmark 7–8 October 2013

With the support of the Governments of Belgium and the Netherlands and the United States Agency for International Development, the second meeting of the European Tuberculosis Laboratory Initiative was held in Copenhagen, Denmark on 7–8 October 2013, hosted and conducted by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. Key focuses of the event were providing a general overview of progress in developing and implementing TB laboratory development plans in the Region and exchanging experiences between countries; identifying challenges in scaling up rapid M/XDR-TB detection; and suggesting ways to address and overcome the challenges in scaling up the rapid detection of M/XDR-TB.