World TB Day

WorldTB Day 2012 Report V2

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TB/HIV Care Association commemorated World TB Day on the 24^th of March 2012 by breakfasting with  a high-level delegation from the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – the Developing Country NGO Delegation at the Upper Eastside Hotel in Woodstock, Cape Town. The aim of the breakfast, sponsored by Sanofi-Aventis, was to put TB on the map for these international delegates who are “the eyes and ears of people on the ground” according to organiser and TB/HIV Care Association Senior Advisor, Ria Grant.

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To mark World TB Day, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation’s Dutch Stop TBC campaign launched a new video: Stefan’s story. Stefan, a former TB patient, is in his mid-twenties and got sick while working in San Francisco, although he underwent treatment in the Netherlands. Stefan talks about being diagnosed with TB, his course of treatment, and his life after being sick. We will be filming similar stories throughout the rest of the world to build up a portfolio of personal examples showing insights into TB control.

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Georgia experiences a dangerously high level of tuberculosis (TB), despite being a middle income European country. The World Health Organization (WHO) designated Georgia as one of the 27 highest burden multi-drug resistance (MDR) – TB countries with a 9.5% MDR- TB rate among new cases. Many Georgians still lack knowledge and awareness about TB and where to access services.
The main event in Georgia marking World TB Day in 2012 was held in Tbilisi through activities organized by the Georgia Tuberculosis Prevention Project (TPP). The TPP is supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and its TB implementing partner, University Research Co., LLC (URC).

The TPP led by URC, collaborated with the Tbilisi State Medical University (TSMU) to host a successful World TB Day Conference on March 23, 2012 with over 70 participants from a variety of public and civil society organizations representing the country’s major players in public health. Attendants included representatives from the Ministry of Labor Health and Social Affairs (MoLHSA), USAID, National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC&PH) and students from TSMU. These stakeholders discussed future goals and initiatives to raise awareness about TB. The participants agreed that collaborative effort is the critical success factor in the fight against TB.
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Sudan expressed its hope that with concerted efforts of various partners TB will stop in this lifetime. This year’s theme of ‘Stop TB in this lifetime’ was relayed through various forms and by different groups through-out the whole month of March, organized by the National TB Programme (NTP) with the World Health Organization’s (WHO), private and public sectors support.

World TB Day in Sudan

The celebration in Sudan was highlighted by the event in Wad Madani in Gezira State on 26 March 2012. Like any other important events in Sudan, the World Tuberculosis Day 2012 event was celebrated in a fes-tive mood with young and old marching in the streets to the rhythm of music played by the band. The day gathered students, health workers, members of TB patients association as well as government officials at the Culture Palace of Gezira state. On top of speeches, there were songs and drama skits presented as a way to impart messages to the audience.

The fight against tuberculosis has been boosted with commitment from various stakeholders from the pri-vate and public sectors – the Government, civic organizations and associations, as well as from UN agen-cies. In addition to Dr Heba Kamal (NTP Manager) and Dr Aayid Munim (WHO TB Medical Officer), Dr My-soon Bokhari (UNDP/Global Fund Deputy Director) and Sudan’s TB Ambassador Dr Awad Ibrahim Awad were in the occasion to assure the public of continuing support to combat TB. Furthermore, statements of strong commitments were shared by the Minister of Health Gezira State Dr Alfatih Mohammed Malik, the State Minister of Health Mr Al-Khair AlNur AlMubarak, and the Deputy Governor of Gezira State Mr Mo-hammed Alkamel Fadelalla.

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South African Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu, donned full cycling gear and jumped on a bicycle to support doctors and researchers who took part in South Africa’s largest cycle race, to raise awareness of childhood TB.
Tutu, who said he loved riding his bike as a boy growing up in Ventersdorp in South Africa’s North West province, threw his weight behind the team, mainly from Stellenbosch University’s Desmond Tutu TB Centre.
They rode together in the 110 kilometre tour around Cape Town, (on Sunday March 11), which drew 35,000 cyclists from South Africa and around the world.

“Our children shouldn’t be exposed to conditions that make them liable to get TB. TB is a disease of poverty, because you have to have a good diet to combat it. Poverty clobbers us many times over. Poverty is expensive,” Tutu said to the group of doctors.

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A helpline number started joint effort by SAFE Society and District Tuberculosis Center MaharajGanj . Any people take information about Tuberclosis through this Number. Till now 79 people are taken advantage by this helpline number last four months.

By this helpline number people also putting their problems, query and getting solution within minutes. So that this helpline number is very helpful for spreading awareness related to Tuberculosis in urban and rural area of maharajGanj District.

“A TB patient of Parsia village (Block-Partawal, Disst- Maharajganj ) told that I am suffering from cough last two months but I afraid about Stigma and expense   of treatment. But one day Village Health and Sanitation Committee’s President told me your symptoms  is matching with TB and you should talk on this number which publish in news paper.I follow advice and give a miss call after that I get phone call on my mobile and discuss with doctor about my problem. Doctor advice me you should go your nearest DMC ShyamDevrua and check your sputum and get the report, I follow his advice.

When I get the report I found my report is positive. After that I follow the doctor advice and started my treatment free of cost last two months with kind support of DOT’s provider. Now I feeling well this can  possible only from this helpline number.  I advice every person who have any symptom of Tuberculosis to  call on Helpline Number  for proper guidance and treatment.”

……………….  SAFE Society , Gorakhpur (U.P.) India 273165

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On March 15,2012, STOP TB Canada hosted a world TB day press conference which was chaired by Dr Anne McCarthy, Infectious disease physician and global Health director at University of Ottawa who raised the importance of Canada’s commitment to reduce TB globally and locally. Udloriak Hanson, Executive Director of the Inuit organization Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), announced the upcoming Inuit specific plan to reduce the unacceptably high TB incidence among the Inuit of Canada’s north. They were joined by parliamentarians Joe Daniel of Toronto Don Valley, who is working with immigrant community groups in his own riding , and is vice chair of commonwealth Parliamentarians for TB. Dr Carolyn Bennett, MP St Pauls and Liberal Aboriginal and Northern affairs critic, called for addressing the social determinants of TB among vulnerable groups, and declared that the high Inuit rates in Canada are cause for a failing grade in dealing with TB. Libby Davies, MP East Vancouver, and cahri of the Canadian Parliamentary caucus on HIV, AIDS and TB (HAT) committed to refocusing attention on TB.

Speakers photographed Libby Davies, Joe Daniel, Udloriak Hanson, Dr Anne McCArthy, Dr Carolyn Bennett

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Statement from UK political leaders

World tuberculosis (TB) Day (24th March 2012) provides an opportunity to reflect on the progress that has been made in recent years in the fight against diseases of poverty like TB, but also to highlight the challenges that we still face.

Since 1995 nearly 50 million people have been successfully treated for tuberculosis worldwide, saving almost 7 million lives. Recently there has also been significant progress in the development of new tools to tackle TB like diagnostics that will be vital to the aspiration of eradicating the disease in the future.

Despite such progress however, challenges remain as TB continues to kill over 3,800 people daily, despite being treatable and curable. TB is still a leading cause of death among people living with HIV and drug resistant strains of the disease continue to rise globally. We remain committed to addressing tuberculosis and will continue to seek to stay ahead of the disease as it evolves and builds resistance.

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