Items tagged with Global TB response
Global TB Caucus is hiring: Africa Regional Coordinator (post)
The Global TB Caucus is looking for a Regional Coordinator to support the work carried out in the Africa region. The position is open to individuals who meet the required criteria and reside in the Africa region.
Aidspan publishes new issue of ‘Global Fund Observer’ (post)
Aidspan: Global Fund Observer
Strategic Initiative to Find the Missing People with TB newsletter (post)
The Stop TB Partnership released the first edition of its quarterly newsletter for 2020 detailing the progress and results achieved in the priority countries of the Global Fund’s Strategic Initiative to Find the Missing People with TB.
Global Fund issues new guidance in response to COVID-19 (post)
GENEVA, 04 March 2020 – The Global Fund announced today new guidance to enable countries to strengthen their response to the new coronavirus, COVID-19, by using existing grants in a swift, nimble and pragmatic way.
COVID-19 coronavirus and TB: We need a damage control plan (post)
As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the world, I and others working to fight TB have growing anxiety about what this pandemic will do to a much older infectious killer - tuberculosis (TB). We know from the Ebola experience that epidemics can disrupt even basic services such as routine immunization. No doubt, COVID-19 will adversely affect all routine health services everywhere. But TB services is might be one of the biggest casualties. Why?
India shows that developing a coronavirus treatment isn’t enough (post)
MUMBAI—Debshree Lokhande recalls trying everything to get rid of her cough, including syrups, lozenges, tablets, and Ayurvedic remedies. She had just moved to a new city and started her first job, fresh out of university. But within days, she said she was vomiting up “bowlfuls” of blood, her weight was falling sharply, and she was experiencing night sweats. A chest X-ray soon revealed that she had contracted tuberculosis. In normal circumstances, TB is a treatable disease—you just need the right doctor to administer the right combination of drugs. Back then, in 2011, Lokhande would have neither.
Presenting the TB affected communities and civil society delegations to the Stop TB Partnership Board (post)
In a first for the Stop TB Partnership, 33 TB champions representing TB Affected Communities, Developing Country NGOs and Developed Country NGOs constituencies, have been selected to support the affected community and civil society Board Members.
WHO Information Note: Ensuring continuity of TB services during the COVID-19 pandemic (post)
20 March 2020 | GENEVA: As the world comes together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to ensure that essential health services and operations are continued to protect the lives of people with TB and other diseases or health conditions. Health services, including national programmes to combat TB, need to be actively engaged in ensuring an effective and rapid response to COVID-19 while ensuring that TB services are maintained.
Apply to be a member of the WHO Civil Society Task Force on TB: Call for expressions of interest from the WHO Region of the Americas (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Program is the Secretariat of the WHO Civil Society Task Force on TB. The aim of the Task Force is to intensify the voice of civil society in ending TB at all levels.
COVID-19 in focus on World TB Day: The Union stands in solidarity and with resilience in the fight against two airborne diseases - TB and COVID-19 (post)
23 March 2020: Ahead of World TB Day tomorrow, The Union announced that a multi-stakeholder approach to infectious disease control based on a partnership between government, the private sector, the research sector and affected community is essential if the COVID-19 virus is to be defeated. The Union also recognised that people living with tuberculosis (TB) are likely to be more vulnerable to COVID-19 and its effects and reiterated that is essential to ensure that access to TB prevention, diagnosis and treatment continue in what is an unsettling environment.
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