Items tagged with Global TB response
April edition of the Stop TB Partnership's newsletter (post)
The Stop TB Partnership released its April newsletter.
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopts Resolution on DR-TB in Europe (post)
On 10 May 2018, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted Resolution on Drug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe. The resolution will go to all 47 Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Council of Europe countries this summer (before the UN High-Level Meeting on TB).
IJTLD June 2018 issue now online (post)
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) is the official publication of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union).
Global governance of antimicrobial resistance (post)
"The rising threat of AMR in human beings is neither new nor rare; drug-resistant infections are already estimated to cause 700 000 annual deaths globally. A leading concern is multidrug-resistant tuberculosis that resulted in 240 000 deaths worldwide in 2016."
World leaders must commit more resources, take stronger actions to end TB epidemic by 2030 (post)
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Global AMR R&D Hub launched (post)
Countries, organisations and foundations came together today (May 22) alongside the annual World Health Assembly to launch the Global Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Development Hub (Global AMR R&D Hub).
Stop TB Partnership launches Advocacy and Communications Toolkit for Civil Society Hearing and UN High-Level Meeting on TB (post)
The Advocacy and Communications Toolkit is designed for use by communities, people affected by TB, activists, partners and stakeholders to support and amplify visibility and awareness about the upcoming Interactive Civil Society Hearing on TB on June 4 and thus pave the way for an ambitious and successful UN High-Level Meeting on TB.
UNAIDS side lunch event during the Interactive Civil Society Hearing on TB (post)
During the Interactive Civil Society Hearing on TB on June 4 at the UN Headquarters in New York, UNAIDS is organizing a civil society-focused lunchtime event on community responses to TB/HIV. All are welcome.
TB HLM Community Consultation Matrix (post)
This document has been produced by ICCS/GFAN with the Affected Communities and Civil Society Advisory Panel to the UN High-Level Meeting (HLM) on TB to summarize needs and priorities in addressing TB identified by civil society organizations involved in implementing TB programming and advocating for the rights of people living with and affected by TB and marginalized and underserved populations in the TB response.
Time for religious leaders to speak out - No child should die of TB (post)
Statistics about TB in children make shocking reading, especially because TB is preventable and curable. Yet in 2015, 240,000 children died of TB, which is 660 deaths every day, including 40,000 TB deaths among children living with HIV. Eighty per cent of child TB deaths occur in children younger than five. At least 1 million children fall ill with tuberculosis (TB) every year and researchers estimate that as many as 67 million children are infected with TB (latent TB) and are therefore at risk of developing the disease in the future.
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