Items tagged with Global TB response
Global TB Caucus launches Barcelona Declaration (post with simple image)
First Global TB Summit culminates in signing of the Barcelona Declaration on TB.
MSF sounds alarm on practices and policies dangerously out of step with what’s needed to contain the global drug-resistant TB crisis (post with simple image)
Outmoded policies and practices and critical gaps in care for drug-resistant TB are fuelling a worldwide public health crisis, said MSF in a new report, ‘Out of Step: Deadly implementation gaps in the TB response’, released today at the 45th Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona.
TB activists call for a bigger piece of the pie from the Global Fund (post with simple image)
Today TB activists interrupted the plenary session at the 45th Conference on Lung Health, calling on the Global Fund and partners to increase the amount of funds allocated to TB without jeopardizing funding to HIV and malaria and other diseases.
High-level dialogue: making the Global Fund’s new funding model work for tuberculosis (post with simple image)
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of death among people living with HIV. In 2013, 360 000 HIV-positive people around the globe died of TB, a disease which is both preventable and curable. Greater commitment and resources are needed to mount an effective response to TB and a high-level round-table event examined how this can be done through the new funding model of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund).
Aidspan publishes new issue of ‘Global Fund Observer’ focused on tuberculosis (post with simple image)
Aidspan: Global Fund Observer
Changing the status quo: investing in communities to beat TB (post with simple image)
We need support to train, equip and empower civil society leaders to form a movement that stretches both within and beyond national borders.
45th Union World Conference on Lung Health: South African health minister proposes 90-90-90 - and one more 90 - goal for TB (post with simple image)
BARCELONA, Spain — “It seems as if we have grown accustomed to TB and ready to accept that human suffering associated with it,” remarked Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, minister of health for South Africa during a plenary talk at the World Conference on Lung Health on Wednesday. Dr. Motsoaledi wears another important hat these days in addition to his lead role in South Africa’s response to its HIV epidemic — the largest in the world and its TB response with its ranking in the top ten countries with the largest TB burden. Motsoaledi also is the new co-chair of the STOP TB partnership which extends his leadership on tuberculosis and TB/HIV co-infection to the world.
Key Opening speeches from the 2014 Union Conference (post with simple image)
Opening speech by Honorable Dr Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health for India
Opening speech by the Honorable Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health for South Africa
Opening speech by Honorable Nick Herbert, Member of Parliament UK & Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB
Mind the Deadly gaps (post with simple image)
The 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health held in Barcelona last week opened with the Health Ministers of South Africa and India making bold statements and commitments to address and reverse the TB epidemics in their countries. Five other countries also committed to ending TB, resulting in the birth of the Barcelona Declaration on TB.
Global Fund: NFM allocations: An Aidspan analysis (post with simple image)
The allocations provided by the Global Fund to countries for 2014-2017 amount to $14.67 billion. The breakdown by type of component is as follows: HIV 52% ($7.64 billion), malaria 29% ($4.26 billion), TB 17% ($2.50 billion) and health systems strengthening 2% ($281 million).
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