Items tagged with Advocacy
Apathy in TB fight: The Economist Intelligence Unit (post with simple image)
A new report on tuberculosis calls for raising the profile of TB, fight apathy and lack of compelling ambition in addressing the disease.
For patients waiting for XDR-TB treatment in Romania, someday never comes (post with simple image)
For Romanians with XDR-TB, except for the lucky few who get on a bus or a plane and become medical refugees, throwing themselves at the mercy of other European countries, someday never comes.
Trans-Pacific trade partners must stand against higher medicine prices and take harmful provisions off the negotiating table (post with simple image)
MSF warns that higher medicine prices caused by harmful new rules in the TPP trade pact will disproportionally affect the poorest populations across all countries in the pact: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam.
Meet the 23-year-old TB survivor taking on South Africa's patent laws (post with simple image)
My name is Phumeza Tisile, I am 23-years-old and live in Cape Town. In 2010, I was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was forced to stop my studies at Cape Peninsula University of Technology to go for treatment. Despite this my condition did not improve, and after about five months of treatment, first for "normal" TB and then for multi-drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), I was finally diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB), the deadliest form of the disease.
The use of bedaquiline in regimens to treat drug-resistant and drug-susceptible tuberculosis: a perspective from tuberculosis-affected communities (post with simple image)
Community voices on bedaquiline's use to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis and future development as a potential treatment for drug-susceptible disease have been largely unheard.
First-ever TB/HIV Networking Zone at AIDS 2014 (post with simple image)
For the first time, the International AIDS Conference will feature a dedicated hub for discussing the deadly duo of TB/HIV.
HIV i-Base/TAG: 2014 Pipeline Report (post with simple image)
Latest annual review on pipeline drugs for adults and children, strategies for cure and prevention for HIV, HCV, TB and vaccine research.
ACTION: From rhetoric to reality: An analysis of efforts to scale up the response to TB-HIV (post with simple image)
A new research report from ACTION global health shows that joint TB-HIV activities are neglected by HIV programs and overwhelmingly carried out by TB programs, and that global guidelines to address TB-HIV have not been prioritized by leading donors and affected countries.
Letter from community groups to regulators regarding bedaquiline phase III trial design (post with simple image)
Several community groups express concerns regarding the STREAM stage II trial design for bedaquiline approval.
GCTA official Website launched (post with simple image)
The GCTA is a coalition of representatives from and of the TB affected communities aiming to bring together activists from diverse backgrounds and regions to ensure TB affected communities are at the center of all processes on TB.
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