News from the Stop
TB Partnership Secretariat
- TB/HIV: a clinical manual, 2nd
ed.
(WHO/HTM/TB/2004.229)
- Fight AIDS. Fight TB. Fight
Now.
Information pack on TB/HIV, jointly published by UNAIDS and the Stop TB
Partnership, in English and French, July 2004. Click here.
- Intensified Support &
Action Countries
Brochure on
the ISAC Initiative
(www.who.int/gtb/publications/isac/isac_2004.pdf)
- Public–Private Mix for DOTS:
global progress. Report of the second meeting of the PPM Subgroup for
DOTS Expansion, 3–5 February 2004.
(WHO/HTM/TB/2004.338)
- Cost and cost-effectiveness of
public–private mix DOTS: evidence from two pilot projects in India
(WHO/HTM/TB/2004.337)
- Respiratory care in primary
care services – a survey in 9 countries
(WHO/HTM/TB/2004.333)
- Report of a “lessons learnt”
workshop on the six ProTEST pilot projects in Malawi,
South Africa and Zambia
(WHO/HTM/TB/
2004.336)
- Fourth annual meeting of the
Stop TB working Group on DOTS-Plus for MDR-TB, Paris, France
27–28 October 2003.
(WHO/HTM/TB/2004.341)
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Advocacy and Communications
XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, 11–16 July 2004
In a special public
appearance at the International AIDS Conference, Nelson Mandela, a former TB
patient himself, made an appeal for stronger commitment to the fight against
TB as an essential factor in the fight against AIDS. "The world has made
defeating AIDS a top priority. This is a blessing, but TB remains
ignored," Mr. Mandela stated. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
also announced a grant of $45 million which will be dedicated to AIDS and TB
research.
In Bangkok, the Partnership Secretariat
produced and distributed a new information pack on TB/HIV, produced in
association with UNAIDS. Together with UNAIDS and the Global Network of
People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+), the Secretariat also organized a workshop
at the Conference on TB/HIV for HIV/AIDS treatment activists.
A special page on
TB/HIV-related events in Bangkok
including the transcript of Mr. Mandela's speech and other TB/HIV-related
information, can be viewed at www.stoptb.org/news/archives/iacxv/.
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BBC documentary on TB
Each day from 4 to 9
June 2004, BBC World broadcast an excellent new 25-minute documentary film
about TB and TB/HIV to its 260 million global viewers. The film, part of a
new series on global infectious diseases called “Kill or Cure”, was sponsored
by the Stop TB Partnership and WHO and features Douglas Young, chair of the
New Vaccines Working Group.
The Stop TB
Partnership has the right to offer the film for broadcast free of charge to
television stations in Africa, Asia, eastern Europe and Latin America.
The Secretariat will also receive more than 4 hours of footage from the
documentary that can be used for producing a range of audiovisual products –
flash films, video news releases, b-roll for the media, etc. Send us an
e-mail at stoptbadvocacy@who.int or
visit our web site www.stoptb.org/resource_center/killorcure.asp
for more information on how to access these materials in the coming weeks and
suggestions for footage use.
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Stop TB Global Ambassador meets Kofi Annan
On 29–30 April 2004,
the Secretariat arranged a series of strategic meetings in New York for the
Global Stop TB Ambassador, A.R. Rahman, to coincide with the opening of his
musical ”Bombay Dreams” on Broadway. Rahman’s itinerary included meetings and
photo opportunities with United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and
Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Shashi
Tharoor, New York City Health Commissioner Dr Tom Frieden, and the Millenium
Development Goals Campaign team.
To read more and view
a photo gallery of London, New Delhi and New York events,
please visit www.stoptb.org/news/archives/rahman.
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Advocacy and Communications Working Group
At its last meeting
on 22–23 March 2004, the Stop TB Coordinating Board approved the formation of
a new Working Group on Advocacy and Communication, which should be
operational by the next Board meeting in October 2004. The Secretariat has
developed a detailed set of draft guidelines for the new Working Group
(structure, membership, scope of work, etc.) to be reviewed by Chair a.i.
Joanne Carter and then shared with members of the Advocacy and Communications
Core Group for discussion and adoption.
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Advocacy materials
“The Human Face of
TB” – now available on CD in nine languages
This 6-minute
informational flash film is based on a groundbreaking report produced for WHO
by the editors and photographers of Colors
magazine in July 2003. The CD of the film has nine language versions: Bahasa,
Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
To request copies please email stoptbadvocacy@who.int.
To order the TB advocacy report, please contact: cdsdoc@who.int
or to download
the document click here.
Stop TB Partnership
logo guidelines now available online
To view the logo
guidelines that contain color specifications, spacing and usage guidelines,
naming schemes and various versions of the logo, please visit www.stoptb.org/logo.asp.
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Media events
Moscow TB media workshop and press conference
At the IUATLD
regional conference in Moscow
in late June, more than 20 journalists attended aTB seminar that provided a
general overview of the global and national TB epidemic. Questions to guest
speakers illustrated the usefulness of holding similar seminars in the future
to improve journalists’ background knowledge. Following the seminar, a press
conference was held in the Kremlin Hall.
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Direct Procurement Service
The Direct
Procurement Service continues to be another useful tool in the fight against
TB. Since its inception in 2002, 15 countries have taken advantage of the GDF
Direct Procurement Service, placing orders for more than 649 000 patients at
an estimated value of more than US$ 7.8 million. In November 2003, the Philippines
set a precedent with its US$ 4.4 million order, with funding from the World
Bank. In June 2004, the first Direct Procurement order from a GFATM Principal
Recipient – Ministry of Health Indonesia – was placed, for more
than 150 000 patients.
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Stop TB Pakistan launched on 27 April 2004
The Pakistani
Minister of Health launched a new national partnership, Stop TB Pakistan, at
the meeting of NTP managers for the Eastern
Mediterranean region. The captain of the national cricket team,
Wasim Akram, will serve as Stop TB Pakistan's national ambassador. Stop TB
Pakistan aims to create a truly national response to fight tuberculosis by
engaging all sectors of Pakistani society. For more information, visit www.stoptb.org/national_partnerships/np_pakistan.asp.
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New Stop TB Partnerships planned for 2004
Over the next few
months a number of other national partnerships are scheduled for launch,
including the Russian Federation
and Uganda.
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Russian Federation
During the Ninth
High-Level Working Group meeting on TB in Moscow on 21 June, the concept of National
Partnership was welcomed; Russian stakeholders are now in the preparatory
phases to launch a Stop TB Partnership Russia in the coming months.
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Uganda
A meeting of
stakeholders was held in June 2004 in Uganda, where it has been decided
to work on National Partnership; the launch of Stop TB Uganda is expected to
take place towards the end of 2004.
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Poverty and TB: World Bank Meeting, China
This large meeting
involved more than 1000 participants and aimed to demonstrate successful
poverty reduction interventions and explore the potential for scaling up. The
main debate centred on macroeconomic issues and the role of the World Bank and
partners. The audience included very high-level representation (heads of
state or ministers) from the target countries with second-level
representatives (permanent secretary and DG level) from donor countries and
agencies. Of the more than 100 case studies that were presented, only one, by
the National TB Programme of Nepal,
concerned TB - and even that one was mentioned only as a discussion item and
not as a full presentation. There is a clear need to continue engaging TB
into poverty initiatives.
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Network TB and Poverty: selection of Secretariat
Eleven proposals to
host the Secretariat of the Network for Action on TB and Poverty were
submitted. All proposals were roughly reviewed by an expert panel of seven
reviewers. It is announced with great pleasure that the National Tuberculosis
Programme of Malawi, in conjunction with the local NGO Reach Trust, was
selected by consensus to host the secretariat of the Network for Action on TB
and Poverty.
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Second Stop TB
Partners' Forum
Documents,
presentations, videos, and other materials from the Second Partners' Forum in
New Delhi, India, are available on the
Partners' Forum web site at www.stoptb.org/events/partners_forum/2004/.
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- Communications Adviser, Stop
TB Partnership
Vacancy Number: HQ/04/TBP/FT221
Duty Station: GENEVA ( Switzerland)
Grade: P-5
Contract type: Fixed-term appointment
Closing date: 25-07-2004
- Global Drug Facility Technical
Officer
Vacancy Number: HQ/04/TBP/FT228
Closing Date: 25 July 2004
Grade: P-4
Contract Type: Fixed-term appointment
Duty Station: GENEVA (Switzerland)
- Call for Secondments of Senior
Officers at the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat
The Stop TB Partnership Secretariat is seeking secondments of senior
officers to work full time in Geneva,
Switzerland.
The secondments will be open from the summer of 2004, and responses will
be reviewed immediately upon receipt.
For more information
and to view other vacancies please visit www.stoptb.org/bi/vacancies.asp.
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The Stop TB Working
Groups
Stop TB Working Group on
TB Drug Development
Save the Date: 29 October 2004 for the
following events:
- Stop TB Working Group on TB
Drug Development Annual Meeting
(Open meeting; 29 October 2004, Paris,
France)
Held in conjunction with the IUATLD World Conference on Lung Health in Paris, France, this meeting will
highlight continued progress in the field of TB drug development, update
the activities map of the Working Group members, and chart the course
for the coming months, including the Global Plan to Stop TB for
2005–2015.
- IUATLD Symposium, sponsored by
the Global Alliance for TB Drug
Development
(IUATLD, 30
October – 1 November 2004, Paris,
France)
For the first time in more than 40 years, there is a pipeline of
promising drug candidates for TB, reflecting the leading role of the
Global Alliance for TB Drug Development. This session will review recent
progress in the field of TB and highlight several specific drug
development programmes.
- Global Alliance for TB Drug Development
Annual Stakeholders Meeting
(by
invitation; 29 October 2004, Paris,
France)
Representatives of the TB Alliance Stakeholders Association will convene
to review the latest advancements of the TB Alliance portfolio and
discuss the policy developments shaping the registration and adoption of
new drugs. In addition to sharing news and updates that inform the work
of the TB Alliance, Stakeholders will elect new members and a new
President.
To read more on each
of these events, visit www.tballiance.org/7_1_1GenericNewsArticles.asp?itemId=449
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Dr Ann Ginsberg named Head of Clinical
Development – TB Alliance
bolsters Research and Development team
The TB Alliance has
announced the appointment of Dr Ann Ginsberg as Head of Clinical Development.
A highly regarded TB expert, Dr Ginsberg has 15 years of experience with the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she last served as Chief of
Respiratory Diseases of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID), and 2 years at Merck, where she was most recently Director
for Project Management. To read more about Dr Ginsberg's appointment, visit www.tballiance.org/7_1_1GenericNewsArticles.asp?itemId=447
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Stop TB Working Group on
DOTS Expansion (DEWG)
Fifth meeting of the Stop TB Working Group
on DOTS Expansion, 27–28 October 2004
For more information,
e-mail dotsexpansion@who.int .
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Intensified Support and Action Countries
(ISAC) Initiative
ISAC is a special
emergency initiative to accelerate DOTS expansion and reach the 2005 global
TB targets and the 2015 MDGs. This special effort is in addition to the
regular support to all 22 high -burden countries and other countries in need.
The ISAC interventions will consist of intensified technical assistance,
accelerated partnership building, in-country advocacy and social
mobilization, and high-level political and advocacy missions. Seven countries
have been identified for the first year of support and country plans have
been developed.
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Linking the public and private sectors
The second meeting of
the Subgroup on Public–Private Mix for DOTS Expansion (PPM DOTS) was held on
3–5 February 2004 in New Delhi.
The meeting reviewed global progress, identified enablers to scale up PPM
DOTS in regions and countries, and assessed the impact of PPM on case
detection so far. Delegates also examined strategies for approaching
hospitals to support DOTS expansion, assessing training needs for PPM, and
identifying key areas of work including equity in access to care.
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Stop TB Working Group on
TB/HIV
Interim Policy on Collaborative TB/HIV
Activities
The Interim Policy
gives guidance on what should be done in countries and clearly defines the activities
that need to be carried out to address the intersecting epidemics of TB and
HIV. The full document can be viewed at
www.who.int/gtb/publications/tb_hiv/2004_330/pdf/interim_policy.pdf.
The recommendations
of the Interim Policy are also available in French and English in the Weekly Epidemiological Record, 2004,
79:1–12 /www.who.int/wer/2004/en/wer7901.pdf
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5th meeting of the TB/HIV Core Group, 2–3
February 2004
The Core Group of the
TB/HIV Working Group held its fifth meeting at WHO HQ in Geneva on 2–3 February. The 21-member Group
discussed progress made since the last meeting in September 2003, plans for
2004, and ways to speed up implementation of TB/HIV collaborative activities.
It selected a Chairperson for the next three years.
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4th meeting of the Global TB/HIV Working
Group
The 4th meeting of
the Global TB/HIV Working Group Meeting is scheduled for 20–21 September 2004
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The objective of the
meeting is to accelerate an effective joint TB/HIV response to the epidemic
of HIV- associated TB in all affected countries by facilitating the sharing
of information and experiences, networking, and strengthening the partnership
of TB and HIV communities in a forum environment.
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Stop TB Working
Group on TB Vaccine Development
The core group of the
Vaccine Development Working Group held its annual meeting on 28 April in Alabang, Philippines,
hosted by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine.
The major message
from the meeting was that three vaccine candidates are now at different
stages of their clinical phase I (safety and early immunogenicity) evaluation
in humans. Thus, the first milestone of the Working Group, i.e. completion of
phase I clinical trials of at least three new vaccine candidates by the end
of 2005, is likely to be reached by the end of 2004 or in early 2005.
However, it was recognized that in order to sustain the momentum and reach
the target of licensure of at least one vaccine by 2015, the Working Group
will have to focus on issues such as resource mobilization, advocacy,
economic modelling, identification of sites for efficacy trials, and
standardization of assays/reagents.
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News from the Stop TB
Partners
Obituary
Tim Cullinan , died May 25 2004:
Gifted and generous doctor who devoted his life to the needy and
underprivileged – Ronan Bennett,
Wednesday 2 June 2004, The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1229331,00.html
“Professor Tim
Cullinan, who has died of cancer aged 71, was a gifted doctor, inspirational
teacher and pioneer of public health who, quietly and without fuss, dedicated
his life to the care of the needy and underprivileged. He worked in London's
East End, Kent, Uganda, Gambia, Tanzania, Malawi and, latterly, even when
terminally ill, in Siberia, bringing with him wherever he went his
exceptional organisational skills, unconventional but incisive thinking,
dizzying energy and limitless, but understated, compassion. His work with the
charity took him to Siberia and Georgia, where he was involved in
anti-TB projects. Tim worked for Merlin, one of the Stop TB partner
organizations.”
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The International Medical Students
Association (IFMSA)
Second IFMSA Annual International Papers
Competition on TB - another success story!
Winning paper:
Tuberculosis in Indonesia Internally Displaced People (IDPs):
A Neglected Dimension of Indonesia
Epidemic Tuberculosis
by Normansyah Pan, Faculty of Medicine, Syiah
Kuala University, Indonesia
Second place paper:
The Lurking and
Devastating Double Pandemic
by Kushal Shrestha, Kathmandu Medical Collage,
Nepal
Third place paper:
Is Directly Observed
Therapy an Effective Tool for Tuberculosis Treatment in the United Sates? An
Evaluation of Three Retrospective Cohort Studies
by Mohamed Zayed, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel
Hill, NC, USA
To view IFMSA's
winning announcement and to download the papers visit click
here.
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Stopping a Global Killer
To access this month’s
e-VAGUS, Stopping a Global Killer,
Vol. 52(7), July 2004, click here.
e-VAGUS is the IFMSA
Newsletter that reaches 900 000 medics worldwide.
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Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) Receives $1
Million Gates Award for Global Health (www.brac.net)
Groundbreaking
Bangladeshi Organization Receives Gates Award for Global Health – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Press Release,
3 June 2004
Click
here for full release
BRAC was awarded the
$1 million for the 2004 Gates Award for Global Health, an award that is
administered by the Global Health Council recognizing extraordinary
achievement in health improvement in the developing world.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
– call for submissions for late breaker session on TB at 35th IUATLD World
Conference on Lung Health
The late-breaker
session will consist of eight oral presentations of 10 minutes each, followed
by 5 minutes of questions. The presentations will be selected from abstracts
submitted to the late-breaker co-chairs by 30 July 2004. Individuals
submitting abstracts will be notified of acceptance or rejection by 20 August
2004. A small number of travel grants are available for presenters of
accepted abstracts who require funding to attend the conference.
For submission
details and more information please contact:
Dr Elsa Villarino and
Dr Michael Iademarco
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
E-mail: evillarino@cdc.gov and miademarco@cdc.gov
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National Institute for Public Health and
the Environment (RIVM) – Health Franchise Initiative
RIVM and other
partners have proposed a Health Franchise Initiative as a way of assuring
quality TB care at private facilities. Currently, many TB patients in
sub-Saharan Africa seek out private, rather
than public, care. However, quality standards among private practitioners
vary considerably. To address this challenge, a Health Franchise Initiative
is being developed to engage the private sector in using the DOTS strategy
and to provide ARVs and treatment of HIV stage 2 and 3 opportunistic
infections.
For more information
on this initiative please contact:
Dr Gijs Elzinga or Dr
Dominic Montagu
E-mail: gijs.elzinga@rivm.nl or dmontagu@berkeley.edu
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Newest registered members of the Stop TB
Partnership
- Nuffield
Institute for Health
Leeds, West Yorkshire - United
Kingdom
- National
TB Control Programme, Estonia
Tartu - Estonia
- STOP
TB ITALY
Milano, MI - Italy
- Tuberculosis
Prevention and Control Health Canada
Ottawa, ON - Canada
- Innovation
in TB control - W. Kenya
Eldoret, Rift Valley - Kenya
- UNAIDS
Genève, Genève 27 - Switzerland
- Oxford
International Biomedical Centre (OIBC)
Abingdon, Oxfordshire - United
Kingdom
- DANIDA/
DANTB
Bhubaneswar, Orissa - India
- Otsuka
Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Osaka - Japan
- The
Russian Red Cross Society
Moscow, Russian
Federation - Russian Federation
- National
Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease(NRITLD)
Tehran, Tehran - Iran
(Islamic Republic of)
- Shasun
Chemicals and Drugs Ltd.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu - India
- Action
Medeor
Tönisvorst - Germany
- Zambia
Relief and Development Foundation
Lusaka, Lusaka - Zambia
- Health
& Development Networks
Amphur Muang, Chiang Mai - Thailand
- Elkhart
County Medical Reserve Corps
Elkhart , IN - United States of America
- Care
International - Zambia
Luzaka, Zambia
- Zambia
- Harvard
School of Public Health
Boston, MA - United States of America
- The
Task Force for Child Survival and Development
Decatur, Georgia
- United States of
America
- The
Research Institute of Tuberculosis (RIT), Japan Anti-Tuberculosis
Association (JATA)
Kiyose, Tokyo - Japan
- Living
Well Network
Nairobi, Kenya
- Kenya
To visit the full
Partners' Directory visit www.stoptb.org/partners/.
To apply to become a partner visit www.stoptb.org/partners/joinus.asp.
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To view events
calendar, go to www.stoptb.org/events/
June/July/August 2004
- 3rd Congress of International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases
(IUATLD), European Region, including the 14th National Congress on Lung
Diseases.
Moscow , Russian Federation , 22–26
June 2004.
- XV International AIDS
Conference
Bangkok , Thailand , 11–16 July 2004.
- 53rd General Assembly of IFMSA
Ohrid,
The former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia, 3–9 August
2004.
- AIDS Vaccine 2004
International Conference
Lausanne , Switzerland , 30 August – 1 September
2004.
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