Press Releases & News Articles
Press Release: WHO Issues New Guidelines for the Control of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, 29 March 2001
Press Release: Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Hon’ble Chief Executive of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf, 24 March
Press Release: Australia's Regional Neighbours Have Highest TB Burden in the World, Community Health and Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Australia, 24 March 2001
Press Release: Minister Herfkens announced 20 million guilder extra for Tuberculosis Control, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Development Cooperation, The Netherlands, 24 March 2001 [English translation]
Press Release: Make TB a National Priority Now - Warn TB Charities, Joint event by TB Alert, RESULTS and Ryder-Cheshire, 24 March 2001
Press Release: Fighting the White Plague - National Institutes of Health, 24 March 2001
Press Release: TB Against Society - Society Against
TB, Joint event by the Ministry of Health Russia and WHO,
23 March 2001
Press Release: The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development Calls for Mobilization Against the TB Epidemic, Brussels, New York, Capetown, 23 March 2001
Press Release: Joint Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/WHO Press Release, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Awards $10 Million to Develop New Diagnostics for Tuberculosis, 23 March 2001
Press Release: Ministry of Health, India, 23 March 2001
Press Release: The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada Launches Major Offensive Against Tuberculosis, 22 March 2001 [in French]
Press Release: World Bank, WHO and others work to develop tuberculosis control solutions at national and global levels - 22 March 2001
Press Release: Joint UNAIDS/WHO Press Release, World TB
Day 2001: Access to TB Cure a Human Rights Imperative - TB and HIV Linked, Joint
Efforts Needed - 22 March 2001
[English (text file html 7kb) - French (text file html 9kb) - Spanish (text file html 9kb)]
Press Release: Lung Association, Thoracic Society Endorse Increases TB-Control Programs - Declare World TB Day 2001 ‘No Time To Celebrate’, Washington DC., 21 March 2001
Press Release: WHO and Stop TB
launch new initiative to increase access to free TB drugs: the Global TB Drug Facility, 20
March 2001 [English (text
file html 9kb) & French (text file html
13kb)]
Annex (1): Launch of
the Global TB Drug Facility
Annex (2): Press Points on the WHO
Report on Global TB Control 2001
Press Release: Global Launch of World Tuberculosis Day 2001 DOTS, TB Cure for All Access to TB cure is a basic Human Right, Uitsig, Cape Town, South Africa, 16 March 2001
Audio message (cda 1.6kb) given by His Grace the Archbishop
Desmond Tutu at the Global Launch of World TB Day 2001 DOTS, TB Cure for All Access to TB
cure is a basic Human Right, Uitsig, Cape Town, South Africa on
16 March 2001
B-Rolls: Available from the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat for World TB Day media coverage
9 April 2001: Singapore's TB Rate Is High Compared To That Of Developed Countries - TB & Outbreaks Week
5 April 2001: Tuberculosis, Still a Scourge - All Africa Global Media
5 April 2001: School at centre of rare TB outbreak - The Gardian
3 April 2001: New Initiative Aims To Increase Access To Free TB Drugs - TB & Outbreaks Week
2 April 2001: TB Kills 1,000 People Daily in Western Pacific, WHO Official - Xinhua News Agency
1 April 2001: Western Pacific Nations to Discuss TB Control Strategy - Xinhua News Agency
29 March 2001: Ebola with wings - NewScientist
28 March 2001: Health services hard hit - The Namibian
28 March 2001: Uganda; WHO Appeals On TB - Africa News
27 March 2001: ‘Virtual’ research group to focus on TB cure - Financial Times
26 March 2001: - DOTS impacting on TB cure rates – Sapa
26 March 2001: Large market for new TB (tuberculosis) drugs, says Global Alliance - Scrip, World Pharmacieutical News
25 March 2001: Myanmar Launches TB Control Week Campaign - Xinhua General News Service
25 March 2001: Tuberculosis Patients Increase in Kenya - Xinhua General News Service
25 March 2001: One third of world tuberculosis cases are in India - BBC News
25 March 2001: 'Mahavir model' in TB control praised - The Hindu
24 March 2001: World fighting growing TB threat - BBC News
24 March 2001: South Africa launches world tuberculosis day - BBC News
24 March 2001: Kampen mot tuberkulosen (Kronikk) "The fight against TB" - Udresfeabifen (Norwegian newspaper)
24 March 2001: Gates contributes millions to fight TB - The San Diego Union-Tribune
24 March 2001: TB, a human rights concern? - The Jakarta Post
24 March 2001: Deux millions de personnes meurent encore chaque année de la tuberculose - Le Monde
24 March 2001: Fighting the TB threat - The Boston Globe
23 March 2001: TB strain is 'as deadly a killer as Aids' – Daily News
23 March 2001: Canada takes lead in battle against TB - Offers to set up global drug system - The Globe and Mail
23 March 2001: La tuberculosis en Perú está siendo acorralada - AFP, Peru
23 March 2001: Un promedio de 10.000 casos anuales de tuberculosis se registran en Colombia - AFP, Colombia
23 March 2001: Los casos de tuberculosis aumentaron en 18% entre 1999 y 2000 en Ecuador - AFP, Ecuador
23 March 2001: Rio de Janeiro, el Estado brasileño con mayor incidencia de tuberculosis - AFP, Brazil
23 March 2001: Canada, Gates Foundation Pledge New Funds for TB - UN News Wire
22 March 2001: F&M prof says TB a growing concern - Lancaster Intelligencer Journal
22 March 2001: TB in young causes concern - BBC News
22 March 2001: TB Cure for All? - Not Quite, Says MSF: Research and Development of New Treatments Urgently Needed - Doctors Without Borders
22 March 2001: TB cases increase despite cheap medication: WHO - Agence France Presse
22 March 2001: South Africa; Shame On Sharpeville's Day . . . - Africa News
22 March 2001: TUBERCULOSIS - The Economist
22 March 2001: Tuberculosis/HIV: Joint Efforts Needed For Diseases, WHO Says - UN News Wire Service
22 March 2001: WHO launches new bid to stop tuberculosis - CNN News
21 March 2001: Hope for TB Patients - New York Times
21 March 2001: Congress introduces bills to control, eliminate TB - Reuters Limited
21 March 2001: WHO And Stop TB Launch New Drug Initiative - UN News Wire
20 March 2001: WHO opens drug facility to stem tuberculosis spread - Reuters London
20 March 2001: U.N. Health Agency Tries To Stop Tuberculosis - AP News Geneva
19 March 2001: Accord reached on global TB treatment - The Boston Globe
19 March 2001: Hill Briefing to Focus on Legislation To Combat Tuberculosis; Announce Launch of Global TB Drug Facility - U.S. Newswire, Inc.
17 March 2001: New Weapons Against Tuberculosis - New York Times
16 March 2001: Tuberculosis still a major problem in India - Delhi Reuters Health
16 March 2001: Fight against tuberculosis - The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
16 March 2001: TB Elimination: Now Is the Time - Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA
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