Items tagged with Advocacy
Call to Action for A TB-Free India (post)
The Call to Action for a TB-Free India is a campaign to bring together all stakeholders to unite against TB. The campaign is part of the Global Challenge TB project, funded by USAID, and implemented in India by The Union South-East Asia Office in close collaboration with Government of India. Recent meetings were held for civil society organisations and corporate leaders, and the campaign will culminate in a Call to Action Summit in March 2016.
Vote for a video: Stop sending TB patients to prison (post)
Click here to watch a video produced by the Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN).
Open letter to the Board and Executive Director of the Global Fund (post)
Subject: Funding target of the 5th Replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The fear factor - how much do we need to fear a disease to eliminate it? (post)
14 October 2015 - London, United Kingdom - The Stop TB Partnership today launched a video to highlight the limited knowledge about TB in the general population, especially in developed countries. It is crucial that people are aware of the disease so we can engage more actors in the battle to end it.
TAG response to the release of the World Health Organization’s 2015 Global tuberculosis report (post)
"In 1993, the World Health Organization declared TB a global emergency. The new data in the WHO's 2015 Global Tuberculosis Report show that all the promises made to end the TB epidemic since 1993 have been hollow. In 2014, 9.6 million people fell ill with TB, and 1.5 million died of it, making TB the world’s leading infectious killer—surpassing HIV. We have made no progress in reducing the incidence of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), with nearly half a million people developing MDR-TB in 2014, only one-fourth of them detected, and even fewer started on treatment.
MSF: Global TB report reveals rate of diagnosis for MDR-TB cases is heading in the wrong direction (post)
According to the World Health Organization’s World tuberculosis report 2015, released 28 October, only one in four (26%) of the 480,000 people estimated to have developed multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) in 2014 was diagnosed. Worse, the total number of people diagnosed with MDR-TB globally in 2014 was actually lower than the previous year (123,000 in 2014 vs 136,000 in 2013), although the total estimated number of people who developed MDR-TB remained the same. In 2014, only 58% of previously treated MDR-TB cases were tested for drug resistance; while this marks an improvement over 2013’s rate of 17%, it’s far from the 100% target set for 2015 in the Global Plan to Stop TB (2011-2015). While the number of people put on MDR-TB treatment increased slightly from 97,000 in 2013 to 111,000 in 2014, the cure rate remains desperately low at 50%.
TB Europe Coalition: Launch of WHO Global TB report 2015 (post)
European political leadership needed to counter world’s most deadly infectious disease
The Union: New WHO report underscores action needed against TB and diabetes (post)
28 October 2015 (Paris, France) – Today health officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva released a comprehensive report on the global scale of tuberculosis, a contagious airborne disease. The report includes startling new data—chiefly, that TB has replaced HIV/AIDS as the world’s most deadly infectious disease, measured by numbers of people who died from the illness in 2014. The report comes just as global health experts are set to convene early next week to address TB and its relationship with another major disease that is rapidly increasing: diabetes. Together, the two diseases present a looming co-epidemic.
Eric Goosby: Time to wake up to shocking toll of TB (post)
The news that tuberculosis -- a treatable and curable disease -- now ranks alongside HIV as the leading infectious disease killer worldwide should be a wake-up call to us all.
Jose Luis Castro: Taking action against TB-diabetes (post)
November 1, 2015 - Last week the World Health Organization released new data showing that TB has become the world’s most deadly infectious disease, measured by numbers of people who die from the illness. TB killed 1.5 million people in 2014, including people with TB-HIV co-infection. That’s 890,000 men, 480,000 women and 140,000 children.
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