Sign on: important TB bill in Romania
The Association for Multidrug-Resistant TB Patients' Support (AMRTPS) and the Romanian Angel Appeal (RAA) Foundation have drafted language for a law to give TB patients in Romania a right to treatment, as well as social and psychological support.
The Ministry of Health has agreed to endorse the law and send it to Parliament.
This would be a big development, but unless there is lots of support (like previous legislation to protect people with HIV), it will not get passed.
Romania has not been appropriately addressing TB, and this is a very positive development.
Please consider signing on to the petition to pass this law, here:
http://www.petitions24.com/support_the_improvement_of_the_legislation_for_tb_patients_in_rom
Please also circulate widely.
The English translation of the full Draft Law for TB Prevention and Control (TB patients law) can be read here:
http://raa.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LEGE-PENTRU-PACIENTII-CU-TUBERCULOZ%C4%82_eng.pdf