This week, Aeras, an organisation dedicated to the development of effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, launched the first film – The Global Epidemic – in a series of shorts that tells the story of the deadly global epidemic of TB. The films are told through the eyes of TB patients, physicians, scientists, advocates and policymakers, thus
On 17th May 2013, seven civil society organisations in Moldova have recently come together to found the ‘National Platform of CSOs active in the field of TB control’. The group was formed in order to ensure that individual organisations working at a community level could harness their collective energy and have a significant positive impact at a
Twenty-eight civil society organisations request the European Commission to scale up its contribution to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria to €450 million for the period 2014-2016.
In the autumn of 2013, the most effective global health funding mechanishm will go through replenishment. The amounts which will be pledged by the different donors
A new film produced for the International Committee of the Red Cross shows how Azerbaijan has managed to achieve some of the best cure rates for multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) in prisons in the former Soviet Union and one of the best worldwide.
The European region hosts some of the worst rates of MDR-TB in the
The TB Europe Coalition will shortly release a toolkit that European citizens can use to encourage their MEPs to sign Written Declaration 0007/2013 on the threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis to the European region.
A sample letter will be available in many EU languages. If want to contact your MEPs, send us an email: fvoitzwinkler@ghadvocates.org and we’ll
This week, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis (UK) launched a report – Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Old Disease, New Threat – highlighting the increasing concern that exists about growing rates of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB).
The comprehensive piece was compiled after considerable time spent on processing both written and oral evidence from a number of experts
A Written Declaration (WD) on the threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis to the European region has been launched yesterday in the European Parliament. It contains recommendations calling on the European Commission and Council to financially and politically back the Global Fund 2013 replenishment and WHO Europe’s Roadmap on drug-resistant tuberculosis. It is backed by 14 MEPs
Yesterday, MEP Claudiu Tănăsescu (Romania) read a speech in the plenary session of the European Parliament, 15 April 2013, calling on EU Institutions to fully fund the Global Fund.
You can watch the video by clicking here.
“Last week the European Commission hosted the pre-replenishment conference of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for
The Centre for Health Policies and Services Romania, member of TBEC, together with partners from other 7 European countries, have this week launched a project funded by the EU called ‘Health workers for all and all for health workers’. The project centres on everyone having access to health workers, a factor that would undoubtedly help
This week in Brussels has been key for Global Fund advocacy. The European Commission hosted the pre-replenishment meeting of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria from 9-10 April, gathering representatives from donor and implementing countries worldwide. Civil society organisations and the Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) used this opportunity to organise a
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To mark World TB Day 2013, the Sentinel Project on Paediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Treatment Action Group released a collection of 30 stories from 30 countries that identify what the TB community needs to do to achieve zero TB deaths, new infections, and suffering.
As the release states, the collection of stories illustrate the problems we
Lung Health Image Library – Pierre Virot
The difficulty faced fighting tuberculosis (TB) in Romania has been highlighted this week in a video produced for Al Jazeera. The short but highly informative news item notes how the dual problem of a lack of adequate funding combined with entrenched social stigma make fighting the disease incredibly difficult.
Many
EXPOSED: The Global Epidemic
May 24, 2013
Moldovan CSOs join together to help defeat TB
May 22, 2013
Civil Society asks European Commission to contribute €450 million to the Global Fund for 2014-2016
May 15, 2013
Azerbaijan achieves some of the best cure rates for drug-resistant TB in prisons
Apr 29, 2013
Urge your Member of EU Parliament to sign Written Declaration 0007/2013
Apr 23, 2013