News about 'Action'

These are the facts (source: Time to Act-Save a million lives by 2015 brochure ) : At least one out of three people in the world has latent TB infection, which increases the risk of becoming ill with TB. People living with HIV have an estimated 20 to 30 times greater risk of developing active TB...

Please take a minute and help us choose a new logo for the Stop TB Partnership’s Working Group on New Drugs (WGND). Since our inception in 2001, the WGND has evolved and expanded greatly. Through our membership and activities, we have been able to contribute to the critical collaborations and...

Notice from the Stop TB Partnership: We are writing to encourage you to sign the Call to Action on Childhood TB. The call was an outcome of an international meeting organized jointly by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the Stop TB Partnership’s Childhood TB Subgroup...

Photo by John-Michael Maas Each day, thousands of people around the world are affected by tuberculosis whether directly or indirectly, and every 20 seconds one of these people die. TB hits all ages and all races with great devastation, but has become so ingrained in history that it has been assumed...

Today was the opening of the 2-day Stop TB Partnership’s Coordinating Board (CB) meeting in Washington, D.C. which included welcoming remarks by Dr. Rajiv Shah (Administrator, USAID), Ms. Lois Quam (Executive Director, GHI), and Dr. Howard Koh (Assistant Secretary, U.S. Depart. of HHS). Having the...

ELIMINATING TB BY 2050: AN ACCELERATED GLOBAL RESEARCH STRATEGY PLEASE PARTICIPATE TO HELP TB RESEARCH MOVING FORWARD As a member of the large TB community, you might well be aware of the fact that research is essential for speeding up progress towards Tuberculosis (TB) elimination by 2050. We need...

Starting 1st December 2010, TB REACH is accepting proposals for the second wave of funding for projects that promote early and increased case detection of tuberculosis (TB) cases and ensure their timely treatment, while maintaining high cure rates within National TB Programmes. TB REACH encourages...

The ACSM Subgroup of the Stop TB Partnership released a new guide to country-level best practices for advocacy, communications and social mobilization. > click here to download the report (.pdf – 3,800kb) From the report: ACSM Advocacy Report This document contains good practice examples of...

Stop TB Partnership Global Plan 2011-2015 Today, at press events in Johannesburg, Berlin and Geneva, the Stop TB Partnership launched The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015: Transforming the Fight-Towards Elimination of Tuberculosis . This new action plan, for the first time, identifies all the...

Dear Partners and Friends, Stop TB Partnership The United Nations High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG Summit) will take place next week, from 20-22 September, in New York. This is an important moment to make the case for increased and continued commitments in the...

To sign on to this letter, please email your name or the name of your organization to Lucy Cheshire at lucy_chesire@yahoo.com . Dear UNITAID Executive Board, We write as members of civil society to draw attention to a grave and urgent situation – the unexplainable delay of board approved grants to...