Items tagged with Global TB response
Decolonizing TB care: A perspective from the Global South on World TB Day (post)
Tuberculosis care is quintessentially colonial, even in 2021. While many countries have been emancipated from their colonizers, the heritage of the colonial mindset, culture and even entire economies is deeply embedded within high burden TB countries in the post-colonial era.
WHO: World TB Day newsletter (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a special edition of its newsletter in commemoration of World TB Day, 24 March, highlighting #EndTB messages and statements from global leaders, video recordings of conducted events, released materials and documents, and other related news and updates from the organization.
Indonesia, Germany and Global Fund sign new debt swap agreement to fight TB (post)
JAKARTA, 14 April 2021 – Germany, Indonesia, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today signed a new agreement that will increase support to tuberculosis programs in Indonesia. That will be achieved by converting €50 million of debt owed by Indonesia to Germany into investments in public health programs supported by the Global Fund in Indonesia.
New Global Fund report shows massive disruption to health care caused by COVID-19 in Africa and Asia (post)
GENEVA, 13 April 2021 – A new report by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria shows COVID-19 has massively disrupted health systems and health service delivery for HIV, TB and malaria in low- and middle-income countries in Africa and Asia in 2020. The report highlights the urgent need to scale up the adaptive measures that health facilities adopted to continue the fight against HIV, TB, malaria, to ramp up delivery of critical supplies for the COVID-19 response, and prevent health care systems and community responses from collapse.
How COVID hurt the fight against other dangerous diseases (post)
Campaigns to battle tuberculosis, measles and polio have all been set back.
WHO #EndTB webinar on progress and opportunities for multisectoral collaboration across the United Nations (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) will host a webinar on 5 May 2021 on the progress made in implementing WHO’s Multisectoral Accountability Framework to Accelerate Progress to End TB (MAF-TB).
Challenge Facility for Civil Society Round 10 (post)
The Stop TB Partnership launched the Challenge Facility for Civil Society Round 10.
Global Fund 45th Board meeting reports continued progress despite COVID-19 pandemic (post)
GENEVA, 12 May 2021 – The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria overwhelmingly praised the continued progress of the Global Fund in the past year despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Board discussed how the Global Fund partnership can continue to support countries to respond to COVID-19 and prepare for future pandemics, while at the same time mitigating the impact on HIV, TB and malaria programs and strengthen systems for health in order to reach the target of ending HIV, TB and malaria as epidemics by 2030.
Stop TB Partnership pays tribute to nurses on International Nurses Day (post)
On this year’s International Nurses Day, the Stop TB Partnership is humbled to pay tribute to nurses and highlight the crucial work they play every single day to support people suffering and in need of diagnosis, treatment, and care due to tuberculosis (TB), COVID-19, and many other diseases.
Making strides towards a world without TB (post)
Dr Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership, tells Health Europa Quarterly about the ongoing global effort to combat tuberculosis.
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