Letter from 10 US Senators to President Obama re drug-resistant TB
A letter in support of Obama Administration’s recently announced initiative to develop a National Action Plan to Address Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.
On August 11, 2015 10 US Senators sent a letter to President
Barack Obama in support of his Administration’s recently
announced initiative to develop a National Action Plan to
Address Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (National Action Plan). The
letter requests that the President take swift, aggressive
actions to address the threat of TB both at home and abroad and
encourages the development of a final document that is both bold
and comprehensive.
“The National Action Plan should have bold targets for
scaling up services for addressing drug-resistant TB in the
U.S. and abroad. It should have an aggressive research agenda,
and it must include a strong means of independently assessing
progress. Including tangible, specific actions for domestic
and international preparedness, innovation, and response is
critical. In addition, given the public health emergency of
drug-resistant TB, the National Action Plan should articulate
any additional resources that are required to implement each
element, beginning in fiscal year 2017.”
To read the letter, click
here.
