2015 Union World Conference on Lung Health
Date: December 4, 2015
Time: 18h00 - 22h30
Location: Southern Sun The Cullinan, 1 Cullinan Street Cape Town Waterfront

2015 Union World Conference on Lung Health, Cape Town, South Africa
Date: December 4, 2015
Time: 17h15-18h30

"In 1993, the World Health Organization declared TB a global emergency. The new data in the WHO's 2015 Global Tuberculosis Report show that all the promises made to end the TB epidemic since 1993 have been hollow. In 2014, 9.6 million people fell ill with TB, and 1.5 million died of it, making TB the world’s leading infectious killer—surpassing HIV. We have made no progress in reducing the incidence of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), with nearly half a million people developing MDR-TB in 2014, only one-fourth of them detected, and even fewer started on treatment.

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The TB CAB and TAG restate their request to Johns Hopkins University to allow representatives of TB-affected communities to comment on the terms of any agreement with Sequella before it is finalized.

Latest annual review on HIV, HCV and TB drugs, diagnostics, vaccines, preventive technologies, research toward a cure, and immune-based and gene therapies in development.

The letter urges Johns Hopkins to assure the timely and responsible development of TB drug candidate sutezolid if transferring any intellectual property rights to Sequella.

Re: Programmatic and research targets for the Global Plan to Stop TB, 2016–2020

Re: Inclusion of pediatric-specific targets in the Global Plan to Stop TB, 2016-2020

The symposium was held October 30 at the 2014 Union World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona, Spain.