WORLD TB DAY 2005
"The Stop TB Partnership, with its 350 partner governments and organizations, is making a difference by forging consensus on strategies, coordinated responses, mechanisms for quality drug supply, and action for new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines."
The Stop TB Partnership Secretariat commends all of our partners for organizing another successful World TB Day this year; ministries of health, national TB control programmes, regional, national and local health organizations; health centers, educational institutions, student associations, media institutions, and others.
Your WTBD events addressed a variety of issues including frontline TB care providers (the theme of this year's WTBD), patient and TB-affected communities, TB/HIV, multidrug-resistant TB, community based DOTS, partnership and capacity building, the Millennium Development Goals, TB and poverty, public-private partnerships and business initiatives.
Activities were as diverse as they were numerous: media events, publicity campaigns in television, radio and press, fundraisers, theater and musical events, photography, poster and art competitions, special events for TB ambassadors, film showings, educational programmes, trainings, seminars, marches and rallies.
Within the next couple of weeks we will post a questionnaire on the World TB Day 2005 web site to solicit your impressions and feedback on the theme selection, usefulness of the information products (including web site information), and future campaign organization. Visit our web site soon to send us your contributions.
Call for information -- World TB Day 2005 Highlights Report
Send us all you've got! We want to document all activities, so over the next couple of months, we will be collecting as much information as possible for World TB Day this year. Many of you have submitted reports on your activities via email. We will continue to include this information on the WTBD web site, and may get in touch with you for more information. For those of you that have not yet submitted information, please send us a packet of any and all materials that you used in your campaigns including posters, T-shirts, information packets, press coverage samples, etc.
Please send all electronic copy materials to:
stoptbadvocacy@who.int
Hard copy materials should be sent to:
Isabelle Burnier
Stop TB Partnership Secretariat
World Health Organization
20, avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva 27
SWITZERLAND
The deadline for submission is 31 May 2005. The report will be published later in the year.
PANOS AND STOP TB PARTNERSHIP TB MEDIA FELLOWSHIPS
ATTENTION -- 5 DAYS UNTIL CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS ON 2 MAY 2005
There are still 5 days left to apply to the Panos Institute/Stop TB Partnership TB media fellowships for print and photo journalists. Fellowships will be awarded to journalists in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Zambia, Malawi, Ethiopia and Haiti with the purpose of raising local debate and understanding of TB, and in particular its link with poverty and HIV/AIDS. Two print fellowships will be awarded for each country (three for India) and four photo fellowships in total. Please circulate this advertisement widely to relevant media networks and associations.
For more information visit: http://www.panosaids.org/tb%5Ffellowships/
Launch of virtual meeting space: Stop TB Partnership notice board
Create or join a discussion! A notice board has been launched on the Stop TB Partnership web site to facilitate exchange between partners and interested parties on practical and strategic issues. We invite you to participate.
Visit the notice board here.
Updates to Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board web page
Updates have recently been made to the Coordinating Board web page to include the agenda, logistic information, and background documents for the 8th Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Meeting that will take place in Addis Ababa from 3-4 May, immediately following a meeting of the Steering Committee for the Second Global Plan to Stop TB (2006-2015) on 2 May 2005. Following the meeting the site will be updated further with the finalized list of participants, key presentations and the meeting report with decisions and outcomes.
May 2005 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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