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Stop TB Partnership Newsletter - World TB Day Special
March 2015
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In an unprecedented national effort, the Deputy President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa and Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi this week launched the country's biggest ever TB screening campaign. 
 

World TB Day Statement from the Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership: The Courage of Saving Lives

This World TB Day, I write to you from South Africa, as part of the event to launch an unprecedented national effort and campaign - impressive because of its vision, boldness, country ownership and courage. I am here with the Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi (Chair of the Stop TB Partnership Board) and numerous other guests as the country launches its biggest campaign ever under the overall umbrella of ‘Ending South Africa’s TB epidemic: Accelerating our response in key populations’ to win the fight against TB. The country's national strategic plan is hugely ambitious with a call for all South Africans to be screened for TB at least once a year. This is a bold step in the direction of moving from just 'saving the dying' to a state of 'keeping the population healthy and devoid of TB'. Full statement here. 
Progress on the development of the Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020

Solid progress is being made on the development of the next Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020. A 1st draft will be ready for review at the upcoming Board Meeting in Paris, in April. Following this process, it will go out for wider consultation through a web-based platform that will consolidate comments from all stakeholders. Additionally, there will be four regional consultations with the aim of discussing the contents of the Global Plan with regional partners. 

The first regional consultation will be in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 6 May, followed by Bangkok, Thailand on 23 June, Istanbul, Turkey on 17 August and ending with a regional consultation in Latin America. Those interested in providing inputs into the Global Plan can also contact relevant Task Force members for input. 

The feedback from these online and regional consultations will feed into a 2nd draft. The next Global Plan will launch at the Board Meeting at the end of the year which will take place in South Africa in December. 
Social Media Reach on World TB Day
 
This year's World TB Day social media reach was staggering - the attached presentation gives an overview of the numbers we reached through Twitter and Facebook. 
The newly opened state of the MDR-TB treatment facility in Haiti. Les Centres Gheskio in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medical College organized the inauguration of the Ludwig Pavilion on the occasion of World TB Day. Photo: Thomas Verges/Stop TB Partnership
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Because TB is generally transmitted in crowded and poorly ventilated spaces, residents of Bangladesh's Tigerpass Railway slum are at high risk of falling ill with TB. Photo: The Global Fund/Saiful Huq Omi
 

Doing the right thing: Human rights for those affected by TB

Human rights abuses are an important factor impacting the TB crisis, and as countries mark World TB Day, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria with support from the Stop TB Partnership have chosen to highlight this topic this week.

Every year, 3.3 million people are either not diagnosed or not treated and among those missed are the most vulnerable. Addressing TB - from transmission to treatment - involves considering a wide range of human rights issues that should not be ignored. Full story here. 
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The Iraqi Ministry of Health set up an emergency cell phone unit to reach out to all TB patients with UNDP support. Photo: UNDP/Iraq
 

Keeping TB patients under treatment is a priority in Iraq

Human rights abuses are an important factor impacting the TB crisis, and as countries mark World TB Day, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria with support from the Stop TB Partnership have chosen to highlight this topic this week.

Every year, 3.3 million people are either not diagnosed or not treated and among those missed are the most vulnerable. Addressing TB - from transmission to treatment - involves considering a wide range of human rights issues that should not be ignored. Full story here. 

TB in the media: a snapshot of some of the big stories on World TB Day
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The Eastern Partnership Ministerial Conference on TB & MDR-TB is taking place in Riga, Latvia now. Watch the live stream here. 
NEW Stop TB Partnership Infographics & Factsheets

A compendium of infographics show the global TB burden, the impact TB REACH and GDF have had, and our engagement with the Global Fund.

The latest factsheet on the missing 3 million is also available for download. 

Help lead global TB innovation: support TB REACH with funding from 2016-2020

37,000 people die from TB in Europe yearly - that's almost 5 deaths every hour. Despite the shocking statistics, international financial support for TB programmes in the EU is declining. These factsheets give a snapshot view of the European TB burden in 11 select countries as part of the Fight TB 2015 campaign. 
Notable Op-Eds
 
 

Lucica Ditiu comments on Gates' Impatient Optimists: The collective force to turn the tide on the war against TB

World TB Day joint op-ed Nick Herbert, MP (UK) and Antonio Brito, MP (Brazil)
 

Le Monde Afrqiue: Tuberculose - agir avant qu’il ne soit trop tard: Op-ed by Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, South African Minister of Health and Chairman of the Board of the Stop TB Partnership & Dr Philippe Douste-Blazy, Special Adviser to the UN on innovative financing, UNITAID president and former French Foreign Minister and Minister of Health.

New appraoches needed to end TB: a Devex op-ed by Anna Nakanwagi-Mukwaya, Paula Fujiwara & Lucica Ditiu

In Conversation: Ambassador Eric Goosby readies for the fight to defeat TB
Video Spotlight


On World TB Day, Emma Thompson & her son Tindy share their experience with the disease. 

South Africa's mine trap: the country's mine workers have the highest rate of TB of any working population

NTV Uganda features TB REACH's grantee Spark TB: the project has helped massively reduce TB infections among Kampala's poor

Childhood TB can be solved: if we choose to act

UN Special Envoy Eric Goosby speaks about the response to TB
Top News Stories

UNOPS supports the Stop TB Partnership in celebrating World TB Day

GDF: Price of MDR-TB drug Cyclocerine cut by half in 2015

Stop TB Partnership initiative reveals surprising results -- 1 in 9 staff tested positive for latent TB infection

Bangkok Conference focuses on access to pharmaceutical services

In honour of all women & their lives - International Women's Day
Featured
Policy & Academic Papers
 

Stop TB USA's White Paper Common Sense highlights that routinely treating TB infection could avert more than 1
million cases of TB disease in the US.

The Price of a Pandemic: Counting the cost of MDR-TB looks into the estimated economic and social costs of drug-resistant TB in this report produced by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB. 

In a guest editorial in PLOS Medicine, the authors call on national TB programmes to retool in order to meet the ambitious goal of ending TB by 2035.

End stigmatizing language in TB research and practice: Terms that invoke metaphors of transgression and punishment cause harm say the authors in an opinion editorial for the BMJ. 
Announcements

The Union and Otsuka open nominations for 2nd Global TB Research & Innovation Award

The Union's IMDP runs course on monitoring and evaluation

New childhood TB online course launches

Abstracts for 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Cape Town

Upcoming
Event Schedule
 
Latvia EU Presidency Ministerial Conference on TB 
30-31 March
Riga, Latvia

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria 33rd Board Meeting
31 March-1 April
Geneva, Switzerland

Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board Meeting
12 - 15 April
Paris, France

TB Vaccines 4th Global Forum 
21 - 24 April
Shanghai, China

68th World Health Assembly
18 - 26 May
Geneva, Switzerland
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