Items tagged with Global TB response
Bosnia and Herzegovina must continue the fight against HIV/AIDS, TB without Global Fund’s aid (post)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) can remain a country with the lowest HIV rate in Europe and sustained reduction of tuberculosis levels only if full implementation of the transition from international funding towards sustainable domestically owned HIV and TB responses is ensured. But, international funding from the Global Fund to Fight HIV/ AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria is ending this year.
Ending TB will take lower drug prices and a new, improved innovation ecosystem (post)
The United Nations “high-level meeting” on tuberculosis will take place in less than a month and the political declaration that emerges from it will, for better or worse, shape the global response to the world’s deadliest infectious disease for years, perhaps decades, to come. There is a very real risk that the declaration could undermine, rather than improve, access to medicines for the more than 10 million people who fall ill with tuberculosis every year. To prevent this from happening, we must distinguish disagreements that are honest from those that are dishonest.
Global Fund partnership has saved 27 million lives (post)
PARIS, 12 September 2018 – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria released a report today demonstrating that 27 million lives have been saved by the Global Fund partnership. The report shows tremendous progress that has been achieved by efforts to end the epidemics, while highlighting new threats.
ECDC and WHO Regional Office for Europe TB fact sheet 2018 (post)
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe released a fact sheet, providing basic information on TB in the WHO European Region ahead of the UN High-Level Meeting on TB to be held on 26 September.
U.S. Senators urge Trump administration to commit to ‘meaningful engagement’ during UN High-Level Meeting on TB (post)
Office of U.S. Senator Todd Young: Young, Brown Lead Senators in Urging Administration to Invest in Efforts to Defeat Tuberculosis
Fact sheet: The U.S. government and global TB efforts (post)
The Kaiser Family Foundation released an updated fact sheet ahead of the UN High-Level Meeting on TB explaining the U.S. government’s role in addressing global TB, including the history of U.S. involvement and funding trends.
Message to world leaders: we cannot end TB without addressing the social and economic burden of the disease (post)
A comment published in The Lancet Global Health presented evidence for and underscored the importance of social protection interventions in ending TB.
A new era for tuberculosis? (post)
"On Sept 26, heads of state will gather in New York at the first UN High-Level Meeting (HLM) on tuberculosis with the aim of uniting to reboot progress and culminating in an “ambitious political declaration”. Will it make any difference?"
TB 2018: Program resources and materials now available online (post)
The program materials of TB 2018 are now available online. They include webcasts, presentation slides and pictures from the sessions. You can find all available resources here.
Report: TB Key Populations and the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment (post)
The Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) launched a report, TB Key Populations and the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment: Why Key Populations Need a Fully Funded Global Fund and Why the Global Fund Needs Fully Engaged TB Communities.
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