Items tagged with Global TB response
South Africa: DR-TB a ‘public health emergency’ - activists (post with simple image)
Civil society groups have called for government to declare drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) a public health emergency, as the DR-TB response remains underfunded.
South Africa: Minister does not join call for DR-TB emergency (post with simple image)
Despite activists’ pleas, Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has not joined almost 800 health workers and experts in supporting the call to declare drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) a public health emergency.
The establishment of a national TB coalition in Macedonia sets the example for other countries in the region (post with simple image)
A national TB coalition was established last week in Macedonia, the first of this kind in Southeastern Europe. The coalition aims to increase collaboration between civil society organisations (CSOs) working in the field of TB prevention and control. Working as an informal platform, it will help the preparation of a comprehensive plan for financial sustainability of TB and HIV service by contributing to define priorities in the provision of TB services and ensuring integration and coordination of activities offered by CSOs.
African leaders adopt experts report with key actions to defeat AIDS, TB and malaria (post with simple image)
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea 27 June 2014: More than 50 African Heads of State and Government committed Friday to work together to sustain efforts to defeat AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria on the continent. With major commitments including the Abuja Declaration and the African Union Roadmap ending in 2015 leaders emphasised the need to remain focused on ensuring the gains made, will be sustained and that Africa moves towards fully controlling the three epidemics.
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.
WHO targets elimination of TB in over 30 countries (post with simple image)
WHO and the European Respiratory Society present a new framework to eliminate tuberculosis in countries with low levels of the disease.
Experts call for tuberculosis to be named public health emergency in Papua New Guinea (post with simple image)
Health experts are calling for tuberculosis (TB) to be declared as a public health emergency in Papua New Guinea after a seven-month study into TB infection rates found that many people in rural areas are dying from the disease without ever being diagnosed.
Outdated approaches fuelling TB in Russia, say NGOs (post with simple image)
TB is a major health threat in Russia, where it is the leading infectious disease killer. The country has the highest rates of MDR-TB and XDR-TB in Europe and the third highest in the world. It also has the 11th highest burden of all TB in the world.
Fifteen years after war, Timor-Leste must ready itself for a new fight (post with simple image)
Rofino’s children look on anxiously as their father, all skin and bones, coughs away on his bed, his breath fluttering and weak. The 45-year-old has had tuberculosis for six years, and in early June was admitted to hospital after a spell of coughing up blood. Sharing the TB ward with him at the Bairo Pite Clinic in Dili are five smear-positive patients; in a neighboring ward, many more await test results.
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.
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