Items tagged with Advocacy
Civil society calls for the retirement of stigmatizing and criminalizing language from the global TB discourse (post with simple image)
An open letter requests that The Union take steps to retire the use of stigmatizing and criminalizing terminology from the papers published in its journals and the abstracts submitted to its conferences.
Global Coalition of Tuberculosis Activists calls for nominations for Regional Focal Points and Alternates (post with simple image)
The applications should be sent to [email protected] by April 6, 2015.
Public comments to be considered by the Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines at the World Health Organization (post with simple image)
Community groups sent public comments in support of the addition of rifapentine, delamanid, bedaquiline and linezolid to the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines.
Call to action: Accelerate access to DR-TB drugs (post with simple image)
А letter from 89 organizations urges action to accelerate access to new and repurposed drugs to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.
MSF issue brief: Ready, set, slow down (post with simple image)
New and promising DR-TB drugs are grabbing headlines but not reaching patients.
Treating drug-sensitive TB in India: Implementation of daily therapy with fixed-dose combinations (post with simple image)
A briefing document outlines critical steps needed to implement a new policy from the Indian government to switch to standard daily TB treatment using fixed-dose combinations. This change, which is in line with global recommendations for proper treatment, is welcome but has yet to be put into action.
TB is India’s ticking time bomb say eminent citizens (post with simple image)
This World TB Day, a group of concerned and eminent citizens have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to make TB control a priority in India terming it as a national crisis.
TB Europe Coalition: Europe cannot afford inaction on tuberculosis (post with simple image)
A new report by the TB Europe Coalition, “After Aid: What is next for TB and HIV in Europe”, illustrates the potentially devastating impact of donor withdrawal on a range of countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where the tuberculosis and HIV epidemics are still problematic.
MSF urges EU Health Commissioner and EU Health Ministers not to skip critical regional Ministerial conference on TB next week (post with simple image)
Lack of political commitment will jeopardize momentum for stronger TB action across the region.
South Africa: 5,000 people and Johnny Clegg call for action on TB -- “We die of TB!” (post with simple image)
On World TB Day, 5,000 members of the Treatment Action Campaign, partner organisations, health professionals and responsible citizens marched to Parliament in Cape Town demanding that MPs get tested for TB, and that Parliament holds government departments to account on TB.
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