Key Messages
Messages are developed in collaboration with partners and play a critical role in the way advocates communicate priorities and important issues to the media, policy makers and influential stakeholders. The list below is not exhaustive, but will give ideas for partners to use in their advocacy efforts.
- TB is unfinished business.
- It is urgent that we find new ways to do more, do it better and stop TB faster. Innovation can take us to the boundaries of what is possible.
- We should celebrate and support those innovators who carry out the research needed to develop new and better vaccines, drugs and diagnostics to fight TB and those who are finding new ways of delivering proven methods of intervention.
- We need to support and encourage innovative ways of finding all those individuals and communities who are missed by traditional approaches to case detection and get them the treatment and care that they need.
- Nobody living with HIV should be dying of TB.
- Drug resistant TB is the result of a failure of the health system. In those cases, a radically strengthened health system (labs, drug quality, etc.) is needed to help tackle the drug resistant threat.
- Unless we innovate: TB will kill more than 500,000 women this year; it is the third largest killer of women of reproductive age in the low income countries of sub-Saharan Africa. In Asia, up to 50% of deaths from TB occurs in smokers.
- Emerging economies have growing capacity to take the lead in research and in implementing innovative ways to fight TB.
- Since 2000, TB programmes have averted XX million deaths worldwide. Investing in TB research and innovation is a wise investment, critical for the achievement of the MDGs and future economic growth.
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