Items tagged with Global TB response
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.
NIH statement on World TB Day 2015 (post with simple image)
World TB Day, March 24, marks the day in 1882 when German microbiologist Robert Koch announced his discovery of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB). Despite the considerable progress made since that discovery, TB remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases. In 2013, an estimated 9 million people became ill with TB, and 1.5 million people died, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). This airborne disease is a leading killer of women and children worldwide. TB co-infection is the major cause of death among HIV-infected people killing roughly 1 in 4 who are co-infected. The growing problems of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB further intensify the TB crisis.
International Journal of Infectious Diseases marks World TB Day 2015 with publication of Special Issue (post with simple image)
To mark World TB Day, March 24, 2015, the International Journal of Infectious Diseases is publishing a Special Issue that will help raise awareness about the burden of tuberculosis and present a collection of articles by some of the world’s most noted researchers and clinicians. The articles present recent successes and future challenges in the quest to eliminate TB from the planet.
World TB Day statement from the Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership: The courage of saving lives (post with simple image)
In an unprecedented national effort, the Deputy President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa and the Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi today launched the country's biggest ever TB screening campaign that will be rolled-out over five years.
Testing and treating the missing millions with tuberculosis (post with simple image)
Writing in observation of World Tuberculosis Day 2015, for which the Stop TB Partnership has established the theme "Reach, Treat, Cure Everyone," Madhukar Pai and Puneet Dewan call on national TB programs to retool in order to meet the ambitious goal of ending TB by 2035.
Open Letter to WHO: Time to report preventive TB therapy for children (post with simple image)
On World TB Day, members of the global childhood TB community sent an open letter to the World Health Organization requesting they include the number of children under the age of five and the number of children with HIV started on preventive TB therapy in the annual Global Tuberculosis Report by 2016.
ECDC: Tuberculosis in Europe: from passive control to active elimination – high- and low-incidence countries (post with simple image)
This four-page evidence brief provides an overview of tuberculosis control and elimination efforts in the EU/EEA, with a particular focus on the epidemiological differences between high- and low-incidence countries.
Mario Raviglione: an ambitious new strategy to end tuberculosis (post with simple image)
To coincide with World Tuberculosis Day on 24 March, the World Health Organization has called for support to achieve an ambitious new 20-year strategy to end the tuberculosis epidemic by 2035. Mario Raviglione, director of the WHO’s Global TB Programme, explains how the strategy will be implemented.
WHO's new End TB Strategy (post with simple image)
The strategy has a vision of making the world free of tuberculosis, with zero deaths, disease, and suffering due to the disease.
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