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Advocacy Advisory Committee TOR
The Advocacy Advisory Committee will give greater impetus to advocacy activities of the whole Partnership by both advising the Board and Secretariat, and helping them to engage the broad range of Partners in TB advocacy. For the latter purpose, the Secretariat will manage an Advocacy Network of interested Partners to facilitate linkages between TB advocates, the Stop TB Partnership, its Working Groups and its Partners. The Network will aim to do this through: better coordination of advocacy campaigns; guiding efforts through a calendar of prioritized events; and helping develop tools for enhancing resource mobilization capacity. Apart from normal contacts, there will be a physical meeting once a year. Nominate Candidates to join the Advocacy Advisory Committee: Partners are invited to nominate individuals whether from their own organization or elsewhere whom they believe fit the criteria for this expert Advocacy Advisory Committee. Nominations should be accompanied by a CV and a cover letter explaining the nominee's interest in and suitability for being a member of the Committee. All nominations and materials must be sent to the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat by 09 January 2009. All nominations should be sent via email to: stoptbacsm@who.int with the following subject heading: NOMINATION FOR ADVOCACY ADVISORY COMMITEE Queries can be addressed by email or telephone to L. Homero Hernandez: hernandezh@who.int +41-22-791-1278. With best wishes, Marcos Espinal, Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership Paul Sommerfeld, Outgoing Chair, ACSM-WG The Global Advocacy Sub-Group Core Group will hold its annual meeting at the Hotel du Ministères on Wednesday 15th of October 2008. The Country-Level Core Group will hold joint sessions during part of the day, but most of the time will be dedicated to working on each group's separate agendas and plans for 2009. Below are the agendas for both the joint and separate sessions of the Core Groups. Advocacy Core Group Meeting Draft Agenda Oct 15 2008 ACSM joint Core Groups Meeting Draft Agenda Oct 15 2008 For information on how to get to the Hotel, please click on the link for the Hotel's directions and website: http://www.ministerehotel.com/us/page4.html For finding the best way to get to the hotel by public transport, please visit the RATP website by clicking the link below: http://www.ratp.fr/  Launch of the Centre for Resource Mobilization websiteThe Global Advocacy Sub-Group announces the launch of the Centre for Resource Mobilization website. This new tool is designed as a one-stop shop for advocates and partners to take part in sharing information, experiences and intelligence for resource mobilization. The Knowledge Exchange section is designed to be an interactive vehicle for engaging partners in their efforts to learn and teach one another by sharing their tools and experiences. Please click on the banner above to visit the website. Message from Paul Sommerfeld, ACSM Working Group Chair, World TB Day 2007
The Partnership's latest estimate (Global TB Control Report, March 2007) is that the funding gap for TB worldwide in 2007 is around $1.1 billion. That is a massive amount, but nonetheless a big improvement on the $3.1 billion annual gap foreseen at the time of publication of the Global Plan to Stop TB 2006-2015 a little over a year ago. The report also indicates that the global TB epidemic appears to be leveling off. Much is beginning to happen through the Global Advocacy for Resource Mobilization Task Forces (TF) - one of the main outcomes of last year's re-structuring was creation of a range of these, seen as an effective way to focus work and draw in a range of activists. The first workplans have been completed and will be sent to you shortly for your information and action. Complementing global advocacy efforts is a robust plan of action for ACSM at country-level. National programmes recognize that community engagement is crucial to effective awareness of TB symptoms, case detection and access to treatment, as well as being essential to programmes that are supported by the government and population within which they operate. In addition, the Challenge Facility for Civil Society (CFCS) has now been set up as a mechanism to provide financial support to small groups of civil society organizations and for funding advocacy and social mobilization activities at the grass roots level. The message to be drawn is that advocacy is working but there is a long way to go. However, I am confident that the ACSM-WG will make a significant contribution to denting the $1.1 billion annual gap in the resources needed for effective TB work globally; as well as to improving case detection and treatment adherence, decreasing stigma and empowering people affected by TB at the country level. I wish you every success with your efforts on World TB Day and look forward to continued collaboration during the rest of 2007. Paul Sommerfeld Chair, ACSM Working Group |
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INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE: Italian health authorities trace flights of American with rare form of tuberculosisAfrican Nations Should Allocate Enough Funds, Implement Policies To Meet MDGs, Including Goals To Combat AIDS, TB, Malaria, Advocates Say[Apr-16-2007]African countries should allocate sufficient funds and implement appropriate policies to achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, which include targets to reduce HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, advocates said last week, Inter Press Service reports. Representatives from 143 member organizations of the African Civil Society Coalition on HIV/AIDS and Allies at the summit of African Union health ministers in Johannesburg, South Africa, urged African governments to set aside 15% of their national budgets for health care, as well as engage civil society and ministers to mobilize resources to combat TB. Countries also should aim during the next 10 years to bridge the funding gap for TB control of almost $11 billion, the coalition said. "We cannot meet the MDGs at this pace," Regis Mtutu of the Treatment Action Campaign said, adding, "We need to double up our efforts through some extraordinary work, particularly in the areas of HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria." The coalition presented a petition with the recommendations to the A.U. commission for health (Nduru, Inter Press Service, 3/12). "TB patients: Some don’t... some do, Some won’t... some will"The Lancet (www.thelancet.com)We read with interest the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC) published in the November, 2006 issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases (1). Focusing primarily on essential activities that all practitioners - public and private- should endorse regarding the management of patients diagnosed with suspected or confirmed tuberculosis, the ISTC brings to the forefront the responsibilities of all providers in delivering quality care to their patients. However, of equal interest is the recent publication of The Patients Charter for Tuberculosis Care (2) which addresses the rights and responsibilities of patients diagnosed with tuberculosis and which was developed in tandem with the ISTC. ...
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Today Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS, called for a collective response to MDR and XDR-TB