WHO launches new stop TB strategy to fight the global tuberculosis epidemic
17 March 2006
A new strategy to fight one of the world’s leading killers - tuberculosis (TB) - was launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO). The new "Stop TB Strategy" addresses the current challenges facing countries in responding to TB - how to continue scaling-up TB control activities while also addressing the spread of TB and HIV coinfection and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). Both TB/HIV, especially in Africa, and MDR-TB, particularly in eastern Europe, are seriously hampering global control efforts to reduce the 1.7 million deaths caused by TB every year. Read more ...
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Click here for the article from the Lancet
From the Lancet article:
"On Thursday March 16, 2006 WHO and The Lancet held a joint press conference to launch the new Stop TB Strategy and to summarise the Essay Focus. Mario Raviglione from WHO and Alimuddin Zumla from the Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health, University College London, UK, spoke at the conference which was chaired by Lancet Deputy Editor Astrid James."
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