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TB Proof was founded in 2012 by South African Health Care Workers and Students after multiple personal experiences with occupational tuberculosis, particularly multidrug-resistant TB. This initiative has three main goals:
1. To "TB PROOF" our colleagues, students and patients by creating greater awareness of and protection against occupational and nosocomial TB transmission through education and activism. (Please refer to the attached abstract and poster summarizing results from our student study – due for publication soon.)
2. To destigmatize and prioritize occupational TB by collecting and disclosing proof of an alarming rise in cases.
3. To mobilize national and global resources through patient advocacy to help address shortcomings in TB prevention and treatment strategies, both for health care workers and more importantly, the population we serve.
More details are available at:
and
https://www.facebook.com/TBproof
Yours in safer, more effective and more equitable
protection against TB for all!
TB Proof team
Contacts:
Arne von Delft Dalene von Delft Bart Willems
vuzumsi@gmail.com daleneduples@gmail.com bartwillemsza@gmail.com
+27 72 699 2473 +27 76 144 5783 +27 84 432 3713
Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen Heena Narotam Koot Kotze
helene1mari@gmail.com heena.narotam.hn@gmail.com quitx3@gmail.com
+27 72 785 6700 +27 76 533 0130 +27 83 368 1800
Angela Dramowski Pat Bond Jurgens Peters
dramowski@sun.ac.za pat.bond55@gmail.com Jurgens.peters@lshtm.ac.uk
+27 842401643 +27 838054042 +44 7545579867