Items tagged with Global TB response
UNGA 77: Stop TB Partnership highlights the need for ending TB (post)
The Stop TB Partnership Executive Director Dr. Lucica Ditiu and Deputy Executive Director Dr. Suvanand Sahu attended several high-level meetings (19-22 September 2022), held in the margins of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 77). They met with key partners and stakeholders to discuss the 2018 UN High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on TB targets, and the urgent need for increased investments and preparations ahead of next year’s UNHLM on TB. Highlights of the activities are compiled here.
Leave no one behind to end TB and end world hunger (post)
14 October 2022 | Geneva: World Food Day this year is being commemorated in a world with increasing global food insecurity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and international conflicts. The World Food Programme estimates that globally, up to 828 million people do not have enough food and 50 million face emergency levels of hunger. Undernutrition is one of the most significant drivers of tuberculosis, accounting for an estimated 19% of incident TB in 2020, worldwide. People with undernutrition are three times more likely to develop TB disease and undernutrition is a common consequence of TB. Undernutrition also worsens TB treatment outcomes and increases the risk of dying from TB.
Public consultation on the draft WHO guidance for community and civil society engagement to end TB (post)
18 October 2022, Geneva |The political declaration of the 2018 United Nations High Level Meeting on tuberculosis (TB) includes commitments by member states to “ensuring strong and meaningful engagement of civil society and affected communities in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the tuberculosis response, within and beyond the health sector”. The 2020 UN Secretary-General progress report on TB includes priority recommendations to accelerate the TB response and reach targets through meaningful engagement of civil society and affected communities in the TB response. In view of the major developments in global public health, WHO is updating its guidance on community and civil society engagement to end TB.
The world's biggest infectious killer regains its deadly lead (post)
Following gargantuan global efforts against COVID-19, tuberculosis (TB) is once again the world's biggest infectious killer, a top expert has told AFP, lamenting the lack of focus on rooting out TB.
Parliamentarians and civil society align on key issues around TB in Migration (post)
On 28 September 2022, the Global TB Caucus held its third Platform of Experts meeting on the theme of TB in Migration. Growing migration is an overall global trend, but the numbers have spiked in Europe due to the war in Ukraine. Across the board, consistent points of concern for migrants are access to healthcare, follow-through on treatment, and the double stigma they face: as migrants, and as people who may be more vulnerable to TB.
Announcing the Challenge Facility for Civil Society 2022 Round 11 grantees (post)
The Stop TB Partnership announced the successful grantees under the Round 11 of the Challenge Facility for Civil Society 2022, which will support 100 TB affected communities and civil society organizations from 29 countries and seven regions for a total of US$ 10.5 million.
1/4/6x24 Campaign call to action at the USAID TB Symposium (post)
On 28 October 2022, the 1/4/6x24 Campaign Coalition will host a session at the USAID TB Symposium '1/4/6x24 Campaign Call to Action: Kick Starting Momentum Toward the HLM.'
1/4/6x24 Campaign call to action at the USAID TB Symposium: Key commitments (post)
On 28 October 2022, the 1/4/6x24 Campaign Coalition hosted a session at the USAID TB Symposium '1/4/6x24 Campaign Call to Action: Kick Starting Momentum Toward the United Nations High-Level Meeting.' Full details about the event are available here.
IJTLD November 2022 issue now online (post)
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) is the official publication of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union).
Global Fund pledge: ‘It’s not too late to take action,’ NGOs urge UK (post)
03 November 2022: In two weeks, the board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will be meeting to decide how much total grant funding will be made available to countries in the next three years. But that funding looks unlikely to include additional pledges from big donors such as the United Kingdom.
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