Partner Highlights
The Stop TB Department of the World Health Organization
2 March - Present
The Stop TB Department of the World Health Organization together with WHO regional and country offices: develops policies, strategies and standards; supports the efforts of WHO Member States; measures progress towards TB targets and assesses national programme performance, financing and impact; promotes research; and facilitates partnerships, advocacy and communication.
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The Damien Foundation
2 October - 2 March
The Damien Foundation is a Belgian non-governmental organization created in 1964, with the objective to fight tuberculosis and leprosy. Priority areas for support are strengthening government services and capacity building. The Foundation works in close collaboration with National TB Control Programmes (NTPs), and provides technical and financial support to 15 NTPs in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The Foundation strongly supports scientific research, both in Belgium and in endemic countries. The annual budget is around € 9 million, and comes primarily from private gifts and legacies in Belgium. Co-financing, mainly from the Belgian Ministry for Development Cooperation and the European Union, covers around 25% of the budget.
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The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union)
12 September - 2 October
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) plays a leading role in global efforts to prevent, treat and control tuberculosis and lung disease in low- and middle-income countries. A non-profit scientific organization with members from 127 countries, The Union currently works in 80 countries providing technical assistance, research and education programmes focused on TB, HIV, child lung health, asthma, tobacco prevention and control and health policy. Best known for the research that led to the DOTS strategy for TB control, The Union has since developed innovative approaches to the management of TB-HIV, childhood pneumonia, asthma and tobacco-related diseases. The Union also sponsors conferences and courses, and publishes a scientific journal, technical guides, and other educational materials. The 2006 Union World Conference on Lung Health (Paris 31 Oct - 04 Nov) will focus on the critical need to strengthen human resources for better lung health.
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The Tuberculosis Survival Project
15 August - 12 September
The Tuberculosis Survival Project is a patient-led initiative that aims to address the emotional and psychological needs of people with TB/MDR-TB, to inform and raise awareness of the disease and to tackle stigma. As well as offering TB news and an ever-growing archive there is a place on the web site where people can write about their own experience of having TB/MDR-TB and read those of other's. There is also a one-to-one mentoring service whereby people with TB can chat in confidence to someone who has already successfully been through treatment. The Tuberculosis Survival Project believes that true EMPOWERMENT comes from "Helping people with TB/MDR-TB to help themselves". Comments and input are always welcome here.
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The Norwegian Heart and Lung Patients Organisation
13 June - 15 August
The Norwegian Heart and Lung Patients Organisation started as a TB patients´ organization in 1943. LHL has experienced that the patients can be an important resource in TB control. LHL therefore considers important to identify ways patients can be empowered and included in the fight against TB. LHL considers the fight against TB as a fight for basic human rights. LHL supports TB programs and projects in nine countries.
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TB Alert
30 May - 12 June 2006
TB Alert is the UK's national TB charity working to fight TB in the UK and overseas. TB Alert aims to ensure that poverty and ignorance are no longer a barrier to accessing TB treatment and to eliminate the stigma and discrimination associated with TB. The mission of TB Alert is to work towards the control and ultimate elimination of TB by increasing access to effective treatment for all by advocating for greater global spending for TB work; promoting awareness of TB amongst the UK general public, non-specialist health professionals and at-risk groups; informing and educating health professionals and patients; supporting TB projects which demonstrate best practice; and supporting local NGO’s and other partner organizations in developing countries to build innovative and sustainable TB control programmes which focus on the social and cultural issues around curing TB.
TB Alert's priority is to reach marginalized groups such as women, refugees and people with HIV.
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TB Care Association
15-29 May 2006
TB Care Association is Cape Town’s oldest TB non-governmental organization. TB Care aims to respond to the needs of the community with regard to TB control. Managing a very successful community-based TB care programme, TB Care “TB Treatment Supporters” administer directly observed TB treatment to almost 4000 patients per day. Recently expanded programmes include community-based care for HIV patients on anti-retroviral treatment. Other major services include TB care for children and the homeless, and TB care in the workplace and in prisons.
Recent challenges include treating two diseases in one patient and integrating TB and HIV(ARV) community-based care successfully, and furthering the development of the Educare programme for pre-school children admitted to the Brooklyn Chest Hospital for TB treatment.
Committed to the challenge of two diseases - one person.
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The Afro Global Alliance
27 April - 12 May 2006
The Afro Global Alliance, founded in 2003, comprises a network of members with the common objective in reconciling youth worldwide for the education of human rights issues and epidemics and pandemics in our society like TB and HIV/AIDS.
With headquarters in Nigeria and offices in Ghana, the Afro Global Alliance collaborates with a growing number of affiliates around the world.
The Afro Global Alliance has programmes in TB control, advocacy and implementation. The voluntary health work support is closing the communication gap between the rural and the urban population by reaching the communities in the languages they understand. Every health event is an opportunity for the Afro Global Alliance to send the TB control message across to the community.
The Afro Global Alliance, believes that "if an individual is affected, the community is affected".
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The International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation (IPSF)
10-24 April 2006
The International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation (IPSF) represents more than 350,000 pharmacy students in 70 countries worldwide. Together with its Member Associations, IPSF works to promote activities and national events in public health education and promotion. For more information on the role of the pharmacy student and pharmacist in the fight against tuberculosis, please see http://www.pharmacistsfighttb.org and http://www.ipsf.org.
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ASET Comas
24 March - 07 April 2006
ASET Comas is a community organization whose members are people living with Tuberculosis. ASET was founded 02 March 1976, which comes to a 30 years celebration this year. ASET works to help individuals to recognize their personal value, recuperate their self esteem and understand the sickness that affects them in order to face the disease better. With this in mind, ASET welcomes and accompanies patients until they are treated and cured. ASET also represents and speaks for those with tuberculosis, doing all it can to have their rights respected.
The Headquarters of ASET is in Lima city, Peru, in the district of Comas. Comas is heavily populated (587,000 pop.) with several areas showing high incidence of tuberculosis.
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ACOETIS
15 February - 23 March 2006
With the backing of international organizations and of the countries' civil society, ACOETIS provides its multidisciplinary expertise, coordinates national and as well as international health programs, and promotes sustainable development in the developing countries through skills transfer. Executing Front line Implementation and Evaluation Agent, ACOETIS is engaged in community activities, expertise in technical assistance and result- oriented project management. Together, our expertise and programs activities to foster fair access to quality primary and reproductive health care services for patients living with tuberculosis, malaria or HIV and in reproductive health in care districts and target zones.
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Icons of Europe
31 January - 14 February 2006
Icons of Europe is an association using great culture to convey messages on contemporary issues. Promoting World TB Day 2005, Icons of Europe co-produced pro bono the musical drama "Chopin and The Nightingale" and a Chopin / Jenny Lind concert at the Royal Museum of Ontario with participation of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto Public Health, Stop TB Canada, the British High Commission, and the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. Chopin’s life was cut short by tuberculosis.
It is now an objective to organize similar World TB Day events in other countries. The Icons of Europe TB Fund accepts donations to support this initiative.
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Destination Santé
21 December - 30 January 2006
We are a multimedia press agency in French, Arabic, Dutch and English, devoted to health information for mass audiences. Destination Santé feeds over 130 newspapers in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Prominent portals (Yahoo, Google, Algérie Presse Service, Menara...) rely on Destination Santé material on a daily basis. We are an exclusive producer of the WHO radio programs in French (700 stations, 45 countries) and Arabic (125 stations, 11 countries). As of 1 January 2006, these programs are broadcast by Destination Santé as an independent press agency, keeping a strong connection with WHO program units.
Services related to TB
- In close cooperation with the WHO TB Strategy & Operations Unit, Destination Santé designed a special 10 minute feature in French and Arabic dedicated to World TB Day: over 100 hours of educational information were broadcast worldwide on this occasion.
- Since Destination Santé joined the Stop TB Partnership (2003), over 60 news items related to TB diagnosis, treatment and prevention have been disseminated.
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Oxford International Biomedical Centre (OIBC)
24 November - 20 December 2005
The Oxford International Biomedical Centre (OIBC) is a humanitarian charity that focuses on the sharing of knowledge.
The mission of OIBC is to improve health and the quality of life across the globe by promoting access to learning and research.
OIBC's goals are:
- Enable scientists, doctors and medical professionals from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe to gain better access to the latest biomedical knowledge. OIBC is essentially a bridge enabling the transfer knowledge and technology between the developing and the developed world.
- Share information on a number of third world diseases that are now beginning to appear in the West.
- Foster an understanding of scientific and medical issues by senior school students and the lay public.
- Promote biomedical research and development through commercial ventures within and outside the UK.
For more information see www.oibc.org.uk
Services related to TB: OIBC has launched a trans-continental research project on the Selection of plants with potential for anti-tuberculosis drug development (SOPAT). For more information, contact the coordinator of this project, Dr Leonard E. Newton, Department of Botany, Kenyatta University, P.O. Box 43844, Nairobi 00100, Kenya; email: ellyen@yahoo.com
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