Items tagged with Advocacy

India: TB patients protest outside health ministry, promised proper drug regimes from July (post)

May 20, 2016 - A group of tuberculosis patients, protesting outside the Union health ministry in Delhi's searing mid-May heat, brought attention to the problem of India's outdated tuberculosis treatment, and forced the ministry officials to give assurance to provide patients with the fixed-dose combination (FDCs) medicines they urgently need.

MSF calls on G7 leaders to urgently address the critical gaps in global response to public health emergencies and unite to lower the price of live-saving medicines (post)

Ise-Shima, Japan/Geneva May 26, 2016 - Two years since the first signs of the West Africa Ebola outbreak, the world today is little more prepared to respond to such an emergency than it was then, warns international humanitarian aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), while the lack of R&D into needed medicines and exorbitant medicine prices requires urgent and united action from the world leaders gathered in Japan.

TB Europe Coalition launches Eastern European and Central Asian network of people with experience of TB (post)

20 June 2016 – Bratislava, Slovakia – The TB Europe Coalition, in collaboration with and with support from the Stop TB Partnership launched TBpeople, the Eastern European and Central Asian network of people with experience of TB. The new network aims to put people affected by tuberculosis (TB) at the heart of decision-making in the fight against TB across Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA).

Stop TB Partnership holds first-ever judicial workshop on TB, human rights, and the law (post)

24 June 2016 - Nairobi, Kenya – The Stop TB Partnership, in collaboration with KELIN and the International Human Rights Clinic at University of Chicago Law School, held a regional workshop on 24-25 June to promote the use of rights-based and community initiatives in TB work. The event, "TB, Human Rights and the Law", brought together 70 participants, including judges from countries in West, South, and East Africa as well as India and Australia; TB survivors; and legal, medical and public health experts to discuss the relationship between human rights, TB, and the law.

Never again let people die because medicines are too expensive (post)

• UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to receive memorandum of demands in Durban
• UN High Level Panel provides unique opportunity for governments to make historic changes in healthcare.

Durban, 17 July 2016: On the eve of the 21st International AIDS Conference, civil society organisations from across the world call on world leaders to take decisive steps to ensure that the nightmare of people not being able to afford AIDS medicines will not be repeated for people with other diseases, including HIV co-infections. We make this call in Durban, South Africa, where on the morning of 18 July we will hand a memorandum of demands to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

TB2016 demands a global commitment to end TB (post)

While much of TB2016, held on the eve of the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) from 16-17 July 2016 was devoted to the rapidly evolving science in the fight against TB, the meeting also highlighted the failure of the world, including the international HIV community, to adequately respond to the TB epidemic – which last year surpassed HIV as the leading infectious cause of death in the world.

Stop TB Partnership: Updates from TB2016 and AIDS 2016 (post)

1. TB2016
2. African TB Caucus
3. Step Up for TB Campaign launch
4. South Africa National TB Coalition launch
5. South Africa App launch

Read the Stop TB Partnership announcement here.

STREAM Community Engagement Plan released at AIDS 2016 (post)

The Union, supported by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the TREAT TB Cooperative Agreement, and in partnership with The Brazilian Network of Tuberculosis Research (REDE-TB), has released a Community Engagement Plan, designed to support global communities undertaking clinical trials and research in tuberculosis (TB). The plan, launched at the STREAM Joint Community Advisory Board Meeting for community engagement on 15 July, is available from the TREAT TB website.

TB Alliance Stakeholders Association: Call for community representative (post)

The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) is seeking applications for the community representative to its Stakeholders Association.

The end of AIDS? The deadly duo no one is talking about (post)

Last month, Durban hosted the 21st International AIDS Society Conference.Through the noise and excitement of the activists chants, dancers, African music and drumming, there was a solemn undertone – we are nowhere near seeing the end of AIDS.