Items tagged with Global TB response
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.
Bali Summit: Coordinated TB-diabetes treatment needed across all levels of the health system (post)
2 November 2015 - “We have the ability and responsibility to address a growing public health crisis that needs urgent action. I am here to say we at The Union accept this challenge. We have to unite efforts in the fight against TB and diabetes. And we must take action now,” said The Union’s Executive Director, José Luis Castro, in a speech that opened Stopping a Looming Co-Epidemic: A Global Summit on Diabetes and Tuberculosis.
Wanted: A plan for drug-resistant TB, and funds to make it work (post)
More than 600 physicians and scientists called on President Obama in a letter Tuesday to release a national plan for research and programming needed to fight the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis at home and abroad, and to back the plan with a budget proposal that allots the dollars necessary to effect it.
Video commentary: Stephen Lewis sounding the alarm on TB (post)
Stephen Lewis, co-director of AIDS-Free World, speaks out about the global TB epidemic.
Why tuberculosis is back (post)
WASHINGTON — New data from the World Health Organization shows that we have allowed a preventable, curable disease to become the world’s biggest communicable killer. The millenniums-old lung disease tuberculosis now outranks even H.I.V./AIDS in the number of lives it claims. The fact is that we’ve been very successful at curing people of TB since the 1950s — so why is this illness still such a scourge?
UNITAID publishes disease narratives that help guide its investments (post)
GENEVA, 17 November 2015 - UNITAID is working to achieve maximum possible health impact through investments aimed at people most exposed to disease and in greatest need.
Global Fund Board approves new strategic framework (post)
GENEVA, November 17, 2015 - The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria approved a new framework for its 2017-2022 strategy to maximize impact, strengthen systems for health, promote and protect human rights and gender equality, and mobilize additional resources.
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