News about 'crisis'

11 Jun 2015
10 June 2015 – Geneva, Switzerland – The Stop TB Partnership is today launching the online consultation into the first public draft of the Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020. The consultation process is open to everyone to share information, ideas and experiences, and, will run from 10 June to 10...
24 Oct 2013
Click to access report. This is the eighteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention, care and control at global, regional...
29 Jul 2013
Source: Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-26/otsuka-s-drug-resistant-tb-treatment-fails-to-win-ema-nod.html Otsuka’s Drug-Resistant TB Treatment Fails to Win EMA Nod Otsuka Holdings Co. (4578) failed to win the backing of a European Medicines Agency panel for the Delamanid medicine...
30 Jun 2013
Click here to access full report Source: Treatment Action Group The Tuberculosis Treatment Pipeline June 2013 Better than Ever Is Not Good Enough By Erica Lessem Introduction In December 2012, tuberculosis (TB) treatment reached a historic landmark with the first approval by a stringent regulatory...
14 May 2013
Update: Release of Part 1 of EXPOSED scheduled for the week of May 20. Contact jrosen@aeras.org if you would like to host a screening event or get more information. EXPOSED is a four-part series of short films that tell the story of the deadly global epidemic of tuberculosis. The series will...
26 Mar 2013
Click to access links and audio from Lancet ID TB Edition Executive Summary To commemorate World TB Day 2013, The Lancet Infectious Diseases publishes a Series of papers on tuberculosis, a disease that has long plagued human beings and was declared a global emergency in 1993 by WHO. Without...
12 Dec 2012
Multidrug-Resistance Tuberculosis: No Promises from MSF Access Campaign on Vimeo . Patients with tuberculosis must undergo lengthy, arduous treatment regimens in the best of times. When stricken with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB, however, the road back to health is even more...
16 Oct 2012
Click here to read full report. The WHO released the Global Tuberculosis Report 2012 today. The main take home points are: In the space of 17 years, 51m people were successfully treated for TB saving 20m lives. TB rates worldwide are decreasing but the overall burden remains huge with drug-...
30 Apr 2012
World TB Day Congressional Briefing Tuberculosis – We Can Beat this Global Killer Wednesday, March 21, 2012 A briefing and update on tuberculosis (TB), a disease that is curable but still takes the lives of 4,000 people each day and is the number one killer of people living with HIV. Special areas...
22 Mar 2012
Click here to get more info. Saturday, March 24, is officially World TB Day but there has been a stream of activities, publications, news and messages to let the world not forget about this major infectious disease killer that claims millions of lives each year. Events On March 7 and 13, the CORE...
12 Jan 2012
Over the past couple of weeks there have been much discussion and reporting on totally drug-resistant tuberculosis (TDR-TB) based on reports of new cases in India. Here are links to coverage of TDR-TB in India, excerpt from a response by Dr. Nardell who we interviewed last year, and link to the WHO...
10 Oct 2011
Source: WHO New Release/31 October 11, 2011 WASHINGTON DC, 11 October 2011 – The World Health Organization (WHO) reports for the first time that the number of people falling ill with tuberculosis (TB) each year is declining. New data, published today in the WHO 2011 Global Tuberculosis Control...
13 Sep 2011
Yesterday, BBC News published an article on the WHO Plan entitled “Consolidated action plan to prevent and combat multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the WHO European Region 2011–2015.” The plan outlines the problem as well as a solution that could save 120,000 lives if...
18 May 2011
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...
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...

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