Give your support by signing here: http://www.msfaccess.org/TBmanifesto/.
People living with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) and their medical care providers are calling on the international community to address the DR-TB crisis with better treatment and diagnosis, and adequate funding.
Here is the link for you to go and add your support for the DR-TB Manifesto that was written last year by Phumeza Tisile (former XDR-patient) and Dr Jenny Hughes (MSF Khayelitsha).
http://www.msfaccess.org/TBmanifesto/
The aim is to get as many signatures as possible and present at World Health Assembly (19–24 May 2014) with Phumeza Tisile and Dr Jenny Hughes.
Today, fewer than 20% of those with DR-TB receive proper diagnosis and treatment. Today’s treatment is horrific – lengthy, toxic, complex and expensive – and cure rates are only 50%. Better diagnostics are rolling out, and new drugs are on the way, but massive political will is needed to seize the opportunity to radically transform DR-TB care. By raising our voices together we hope to make the DR-TB Manifesto demands a reality.