Items tagged with Global TB response
The unnecessary persistence of tuberculosis (post)
The World Health Organization has just released its annual Global Tuberculosis Report. The report shows that even as tuberculosis (TB) rates continue to fall worldwide, the epidemic is larger than previously estimated, with 10.4 million new TB cases globally in 2015; over 95 percent of TB cases happen in low- and middle- income countries.
Global health funding faces a shortfall of billions to fight diseases (post)
The ecstatic press releases started even before the conference to replenish the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria officially closed last month in Montreal. The fund, which channels donor money to local programs that fight the three diseases in places where they are the most damaging, especially sub-Saharan Africa, had put out a call for $13 billion for its next three years of programming. By the end of the conference, the fund had raised $12.9 billion.
Aidspan publishes new issue of ‘Global Fund Observer’ (post)
Aidspan: Global Fund Observer
Step up for TB campaign website launched (post)
On July 16 the Stop TB Partnership and Médecins Sans Frontières launched Step up for TB campaign calling on all countries to update their TB policies in line with the latest WHO policies within 500 days.
Message from Lucica Ditiu: Important for all Global Fund grantees (post)
Message from Lucica Ditiu, the Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership, for colleagues from TB programs, communities, Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs), Principal Recipients (PRs), Sub-Recipients (SRs), advocates and technical partners.
Stop TB Partnership and its partners 'unite to end TB' by launching a social impact fund and an accelerator for impact (post)
07 November 2016 - Geneva, Switzerland - The Stop TB Partnership and its partners are pleased to announce the launch of a social impact fund called Venture Lab (vLAB), which will pool and blend private and public capital to address systemic barriers in the TB space. The organization also announced that one of its Private Sector Constituency members has made an initial donation to the fund.
Without urgent action, world heading towards ‘post-antibiotic era’ (post)
14 November 2016 – With a worldwide call on everyone, everywhere to play their part in maintaining the effectiveness of antibiotics, the United Nations health agency has kicked off a week-long campaign to make antibiotic resistance a globally recognized health issue and to raise awareness of the need to protect antibiotics through appropriate use.
New alliance to hold UN and others accountable for antimicrobial resistance commitments (post)
A new international alliance to support the United Nations Resolution on Antimicrobial Resistance was launched this week (November 14-18). The Conscience of Antimicrobial Resistance Accountability (CARA) aims to bring together organisations committing to reporting on mutually agreed upon indicators in countries around the world, and to hold the UN and other stakeholders accountable to their commitments.
Aidspan publishes new issue of ‘Global Fund Observer’ (post)
Aidspan: Global Fund Observer
Experts call for collective action to end TB in the Western Pacific (post)
Denarau, Fiji, Nov 23, 2016 – While there has been remarkable progress in the fight against tuberculosis (TB) in the Western Pacific region over the past two decades, the disease remains a major public health problem and a renewed effort is required to end the epidemic, said public health experts who gathered this week in Fiji for a regional TB meeting.
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