Messages, statements, opinion pieces and posts recognize World TB Day
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World Health Organization: World TB Day video message
Dr Tereza Kasaeva, WHO Global TB Program Director
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WHO Regional Office for Europe: Drug resistant strains could become the dominant form of TB
in Europe: it’s time to end TB
Overall, the situation in the European Region is improving too
slowly to end TB by 2030 and achieve the Sustainable Development
Goal target for the disease.
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WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia: It’s time to seize the moment and accelerate progress
to End TB
Message from Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director
for South-East Asia
-- See also:
The BMJ blog: The UN’s Political Declaration on the fight against
TB must be operationalized to rapid effect
In the WHO South-East Asia Region, the fight against TB
has reached a critical phase. Financing within countries must be
streamlined, and global investment forthcoming.
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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean: World TB Day 2019: It’s time for action! It’s
time to End TB.
Message from Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for
the Eastern Mediterranean
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United Nations: It’s ‘time to #EndTB’, says UN on World
TB Day
TB is not only the world's top infectious killer, it is
also the leading cause of deaths among people with HIV and a
major cause of antimicrobial resistance-related deaths.
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International Organization for Migration (IOM): World TB Day 2019 - It’s Time to Think Universal!
“Ending TB means addressing the intrinsic linkages
between population mobility and tuberculosis as well as
acknowledging that Universal Health Coverage is only real if
high risks groups are accounted for”.
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National Institutes of Health: NIH Statement on World Tuberculosis Day 2019
Statement of Alan Embry, Ph.D., Richard Hafner, M.D., and
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
"This year’s World TB Day theme is “It’s Time” to end tuberculosis once and for all. We at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH, are committed to accelerating the cutting-edge research necessary to ending this ancient disease."
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USAID: Statement from USAID Administrator Mark Green on World TB
Day
-- See also:
USAID: USAID Administrator Mark Green's Remarks at USAID's World
TB Day Event
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EU Reporter: #WorldTuberculosisDay – While the number of cases decreases in Europe, awareness and prevention are still needed
"I call on leaders in the EU and beyond, to boost their public health measures against tuberculosis hand in hand with other sectors. Existing tools and good practices should be better implemented, and focus on people’s needs. Together with our agencies, the Commission will continue to support such efforts from different policy angles – including funding, research, fight against antimicrobial resistance, prevention, early diagnosis and linkage to treatment and care. So let’s make tuberculosis history!” (Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)
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The Union: A message from José Luis Castro, Executive Director,
The Union
“It’s time for a breakthrough in TB.”
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Global Network of People living with HIV: It’s Time: GNP+ and TBpeople Join Forces to End TB and TB/HIV
The Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+) and TBpeople recognises March 24th as World TB Day by calling for a paradigm shift centering people living with HIV and people who have experienced TB at the centre of our collective responses to fighting the two diseases.
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TB Europe Coalition: Deaf or Dead? It is time to stop the torture of people who suffer from TB
"On World TB Day 2019, the TB Europe Coalition calls on countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region to stop the common use of injectable drugs with debilitating side effects on people who suffer from a form of TB that is resistant to antibiotics (drug-resistant TB). Countries should immediately provide newer, safer treatments as recommended by the WHO."
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TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI): World TB Day 2019: It’s time! … to strengthen
collaborative Research & Innovation partnerships in TB
vaccines
True to the World TB Day 2019 theme
‘It’s time!’ TBVI continues its efforts to
sustain its unique collaborative research infrastructure with
the aim to develop new, effective, accessible and affordable TB
vaccines.
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Forum of International Respiratory Societies: Statement from FIRS for World TB Day
On World TB Day, the Forum of International Respiratory
Societies (FIRS) urges governments to maximise on the success of
the first ever United Nation (UN) High-Level Meeting (HLM) on
the fight against TB held in 2018, which produced a UN political
declaration on TB and the endorsement at the highest level to
take the necessary steps to end the TB epidemic.
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Institute of Development Studies: It's time to address the intersection of poverty and masculinity to End TB
Bertie Squire, professor at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, discusses the burden of TB among men and boys, writing, "Men are disproportionately affected by TB. More men than women are diagnosed and die from TB globally, and more men than women have undetected TB. Yet while strategies to tackle the disease have become more gender-sensitive, they tend to focus on women and girls and not men and boys. Without the inclusion of men and boys, as well as a greater recognition of how gender and poverty intersect to prevent diagnosis and treatment of TB, efforts to end this deadly disease will be hindered."
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PLOS Blog's "Speaking of Medicine": Progress in Peril: Stagnant Funding Could Lengthen the TB Elimination Timeline
In recognition of World TB Day, Jay Achar, tuberculosis/HIV program and research adviser within the Manson Unit of Médecins Sans Frontières, "explains how despite encouraging innovation in the fight to eradicate TB, progress could be stalled if TB actors become complacent."
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The Conversation: Major battles have been won against TB. But the war
isn’t over
Bavesh Kana, Head of the Centre of Excellence for
Biomedical TB Research, University of the Witwatersrand
"The suffering and massive loss of life caused by TB are proof that humanity hasn’t prioritised the development of tools to eliminate a disease dating back 9 000 years. Two stark facts highlight this: most of the antibiotics used to treat TB were developed decades ago. And, until very recently, some diagnostic approaches being used were a century old."
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Youth Ki Awaaz: Putting patients and their lives at the centre of TB treatment
"March 24th is World TB Day. A grim reminder that TB continues to be the biggest infectious disease killer in the world and India continues to have the highest TB burden. In the run-up to World TB Day, putting patients and their living realities “front and centre” in their treatment has become more important now than ever before."
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