What New York City is doing for the World TB Day 2003

While the World TB Day is March 24, 2002, New York City (NYC) Department of Health’s TB Bureau (including its 4 field offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx/Staten Island) will be participating in various activities from March 22 to March 30 to raise people’s awareness about TB and what to do about it.

The target groups this year are immigrant populations in NYC that are at higher risk of having

or contracting TB (because they are from some countries or regions where TB is more prevalent than others) and some immune suppressed populations in NYC. They include Spanish-speaking immigrants from South and Central America, Asians from China and South Asia, speaking Chinese, Urdu, Hindi or Bengali and visitors to some clinics in NYC.

Following are some of the activities:

TV:

  1. TV appearance by Dr. Sonal Munsiff, Director of the NYC TB program, on ITV Gold (which reaches to South Asian population in NYC and surrounding areas) on March 24, 2003, 6.10 pm to 7 pm on a live call in show discussing TB.

    2. Dissemination of TB information and one on one talks with public:

  2. At the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service office in NYC where immigrant/ potential immigrant individuals wait in lines outside the building. Some of the TB program’s multi-lingual staff will communicate with multi-cultural people and distribute TB information materials in 8 languages (English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, French, French-Creole, Hindi and Urdu). Also, a table will be set up inside the lobby of this U.S. government building with TB banners and educational materials for visitors.
  3. In some of NYC’s major ethnic shopping areas, some religious places (such as churches) and clinics, by TB staff.
  4. Some field offices are organizing education or publicity work at some hospitals, day- laborer gathering places and community centers.

 

TB/DOT Seminar

  1. There will also be a breakfast seminar on 24 March from 8.30 am – 11.30 am, for TB staff/managers, medical professionals, some Community Based Organization(CBO) representatives and DOT (Directly Observed Therapy) providers, where presentations and discussions on the epidemiology of TB in NYC, DOT, and new drugs used in TB treatment (such as Rifapentine) will take place.

    2. TB material mail outs

  2. To press and some NYC local TV stations

 March 2003 WTBDEVENTS

Ray Gudur E&T/BTBC/NYCDOHMH

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