Items tagged with Advocacy
Community Corner at 2014 Union World Conference on Lung Health (post with simple image)
The Community Corner is a space for all Union conference attendees to gather, discuss, debate and share ideas on the most pressing issues facing the fight against tuberculosis.
#CoughUpTheTBMoney: Civil society calls for tripling of money for TB research (post with simple image)
Today at the opening plenary of the 45th Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona, activists from across the globe called on governments to dramatically increase spending on R&D for new treatments for TB. Spending must be tripled to meet the US$2 billion annual minimum required according to the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Plan to Stop TB.
Activists urge Otsuka to provide access to TB drug (post with simple image)
TB activists interrupted Otsuka’s symposium at the 45th Conference on Lung Health, calling for widespread registration of and immediate broad compassionate use access to delamanid, Otsuka’s new drug to treat multidrug-resistant TB.
TB activists call for a bigger piece of the pie from the Global Fund (post with simple image)
Today TB activists interrupted the plenary session at the 45th Conference on Lung Health, calling on the Global Fund and partners to increase the amount of funds allocated to TB without jeopardizing funding to HIV and malaria and other diseases.
Key advocacy fact sheets on TB in Europe released in English and Russian (post with simple image)
The three new fact sheets on “Ambulatory TB care”, “Integrated TB/HIV care” and “Engaging civil society and affected communities in the fight against TB” aim to share best practices from the European region on the three topics.
Mind the Deadly gaps (post with simple image)
The 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health held in Barcelona last week opened with the Health Ministers of South Africa and India making bold statements and commitments to address and reverse the TB epidemics in their countries. Five other countries also committed to ending TB, resulting in the birth of the Barcelona Declaration on TB.
South Africa: DR-TB patients, activists demand registering generic linezolid (post with simple image)
A letter, signed by over 100 clinicians, organisations and patients with DR-TB, demands the immediate registration of a generic version of linezolid in South Africa, which has been under a significantly delayed fast-track review process since May 2013.
Brook Baker and Yousuf Vawda: Academics for TAC (post with simple image)
We urge other academics, in South Africa and globally, to support the Treatment Action Campaign and its vital work with both your financial and intellectual assets. The TAC is the heart of the international AIDS movement – we cannot sit by and let that heartbeat still.
“You see yourself vanishing and you think: I’m going to die” (post with simple image)
Andaleeb Rinquest remembers the moment she accepted, with certainty, the imminence of her own death.
Appeal to global donors to save the Treatment Action Campaign (post with simple image)
... in HIV, we have witnessed something unique—global social justice in response to one disease. We believe the lessons of HIV need to be expanded upon. A similar alliance of activism and scientific inquiry is needed for tuberculosis ...
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