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Dr Lucica Ditiu, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership commemorates World TB Day (post with simple image)
24 March 2014 - Johannesburg - We are well into 2014 with the 2015 MDG deadline fast approaching. Inventions and innovations, scientific discoveries, incredible advances in technology - even with all this, there are still more than 2 billion people infected with TB in the world and 9 million new TB cases every year. 1.3 million die every year. Sadly, 3 million are missed by health systems and they do not have access to proper diagnosis, treatment, follow up and the care that they deserve and need.
TB Alliance launches web portal for childhood tuberculosis (post with simple image)
An initiative to improve pediatric TB treatment with the goal of ensuring all children with TB receive appropriate treatment.
Parliamentarians from across Europe, and beyond, call for urgent action on TB (post with simple image)
Representatives from across the G7 and the European Parliament have released a statement calling for a renewed global commitment to “drive down rates of TB across the world and to accelerate progress towards ending TB as a threat to global public health.”
In conversation: Paul Farmer on today's tuberculosis emergency and our path to saving millions of lives (post with simple image)
In the history of humankind, tuberculosis (TB) has killed more people than any other disease. TB remains one of the top 10 causes of deaths in the world and competes with HIV/AIDS as the biggest killer amongst all infectious diseases. One of the overarching problems with TB is how difficult it can be to find and properly diagnose the people who are infected with active TB. As a result, approximately 3 million people who are not aware that they have active tuberculosis and are unwittingly infecting, on average, 15 to 20 more people beyond themselves. You can picture the exponential spread of the disease and recognize how frighteningly quickly those numbers add up: 1.4 million people will die from the disease this year, two to three people every minute, nearly 4000 every day. Yet most people know almost nothing of TB and likely think that it is no longer a public health challenge.
TB Europe Coalition: It’s about time the European Union takes responsibility for drug-resistant TB (post with simple image)
With EU elections coming up soon, there is a great opportunity for the new European Institutions to take concrete initiatives on drug-resistant tuberculosis: the only ingredient missing so far is political will.
TB Europe Coalition: Drug resistant tuberculosis a cross border threat: EU must act now! (post with simple image)
The TB Europe Coalition released a call to action urging the European Union to take immediate action against drug resistant tuberculosis, which is a serious cross-border health threat.
Fool’s errand: The sloppy science of the MDR-TB STREAM trial (post with simple image)
Confirming the efficacy and safety of bedaquiline-inclusive regimens is a priority. Comparing them to unvalidated MDR-TB drug combinations in the planned STREAM study is not the way to go about it.
The first region-wide meeting of TB activists kicked off today in Kyiv! (post with simple image)
At a time of great challenges for Ukraine, twenty-three tuberculosis (TB) activists, representing twelve countries from the Eastern European and Central Asian region, gathered in Kyiv to attend a training aimed at strengthening their capacity to participate in national and regional TB responses.
‘We demand action’: Death toll from drug-resistant tuberculosis must be slashed within a year (post with simple image)
Phumeza Tisile, co-author of the DR-TB Manifesto and XDR-TB survivor, delivers urgent plea to World Health Assembly delegates on behalf of 50,000 supporters worldwide.
Dudley Lee, who successfully sued government, has died (post with simple image)
OBITUARY Dudley Lee died at the age of 68 on 21 May in Victoria Hospital. He successfully sued the Minister of Correctional Services because he became ill with tuberculosis (TB) while awaiting trial in Pollsmoor prison.
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