News about 'advocacy'

30 Mar 2011
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...
24 Mar 2011
The following is an e-mail circulated on the Stop TB Advocacy Network from a TB patient named Pervaiz Tufail, location unknown. It is a powerful message from the patient’s perspective. Subject: TODAY IS WORD TB DAY BUT WHERE AM I? I heard Akram died of TB today, last week Rizwan died and I am...
16 Mar 2011
Photo: David Rochkind On World TB Day March 24, there will be a Congressional Briefing on multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) where David Rochkind, the award winning photographer and Pulitzer Center grantee, will present his reporting and photography on his exploration into the MDR-TB crisis in...
2 Mar 2011
2010 G-Finder Report The third annual G-Finder report, Neglected Disease Research and Development, was released on February 16, 2011. The report, compiled by the Policy Cures staff using information self-reported by granting and recipient institutions, provides the latest information on the funding...
23 Feb 2011
In addition, other discussions in the policy realm toss around the idea that the government should get a return on the sale of drugs that were developed with federal funds in the face of high drug costs and medical care. This debate surrounding the public sectors role in downstream drug development...
16 Feb 2011
Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), addressed the importance of investing in innovation and harnessing the power of new global health technologies to achieve widespread impact on those suffering from disease in the most impoverished...
14 Nov 2010
Report: Falling Short Berlin, 13 November 2010 – The past decade has seen significant progress in scaling up effective treatment and case management programs for tuberculosis (TB) control, and the global incidence rate is now declining. Yet a new report released today by a consortium of leading...
13 Oct 2010
This post was contributed by Vivek Dharmaraj of Advocacy to Control TB Internationally (ACTION Project) based in Pune, India. The names have been changed for privacy. ACTION Mohini Bai came to our NGO about 8 years back. She had lost her husband to AIDS and both she and her younger son had also...
16 Sep 2010
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...
6 Sep 2010
The following is a guest posting from Joanna Breitstein of the TB Alliance, reporting from the Open Forum 4 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Open Forum 4 While there were few new TB treatment prospects a few years ago, today there are 10 drugs in the global development pipeline. Noting the sea of change,...
5 Jul 2010
This post originally appeared on the Stop TB Partnership website: http://www.stoptb.org/news/stories/2010/ns10_043.asp FIFA World Cup 2010 6 July 2010 – Johannesburg, South Africa – Tuberculosis is on the agenda at the Football for Hope Festival 2010 – an official event of the 2010 FIFA World Cup...
3 Jun 2010
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...
19 Apr 2010
This article originally appeared in Clinical Infectious Diseases 2010;50:S260–S266 © 2010 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. 1058-4838/2010/5010S3-0026$15.00 DOI: 10.1086/651500 Mark Harrington is Executive Director of Treatment Action Group Tuberculosis (TB) and...
9 Mar 2010
From the TB Alert press release: New TB Campaign is Offering Free TB Awareness Resources www.thetruthabouttb.org African HIV Policy Network (AHPN) , together with TB Alert , the UK’s national tuberculosis charity, is encouraging black African organisations to get involved in World TB Day, and is...

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