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TB on the Agenda at the World Cup
Tuberculosis is on the agenda at the Football for Hope Festival 2010 – an official event of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa – which opened Sunday in Johannesburg. The week-long event celebrates the power of football for social change, with 32 teams of young people from disadvantaged communities around the world gathering for a festival of football, culture, education and entertainment.
Stop TB Partnership Craig David Video Series #3
In a newly released clip – the third in a series of videos shot in South Africa during his first country visit as a Goodwill Ambassador against Tuberculosis – British R&B star Craig David talks with Dr Sizulu Moyo, a tuberculosis researcher at Stellenbosch University.
Stop TB Partnership Craig David Video Series #2
The Stop TB Partnership has produced a series of videos featuring Goodwill Ambassador Craig David. This is #2 in a series.
Sign-on letter to UNITAID to release delayed TB funds
This sign-on letter was prepared by Lucy Cheshire, TB Advocacy Advisor, ACTION Project, Kenya. It calls on UNITAID to release grant funding to the Stop TB Partnership that has been “unnecessarily sidelined and/or delayed which threatens to exacerbate the spread of MDR-TB, derail the supply of paediatric drugs and undermine market shaping activities that are already underway or planned for both these crucial niches.”
From HIV to Tuberculosis and Back Again: A Tale of Activism in 2 Pandemics
This article originally appeared in Clinical Infectious Diseases 2010;50:S260–S266.
Tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are the deadliest chronic infections globally. Although each is deadly alone, they are deadlier together, with TB causing one‐quarter of AIDS‐related deaths and HIV infecting at least 15% of patients with TB worldwide.
Free World TB Day Resources for African TB/HIV Advocates
African HIV Policy Network (AHPN), together with TB Alert, the UK’s national tuberculosis charity, is encouraging black African organisations to get involved in World TB Day, and is offering free resources and materials. TB Alert has just launched a new awareness campaign, “The Truth About TB”, with funding from the Department of Health. TB remains a crucial health issue, with over 8,000 people in the UK developing the illness each year. “With World TB Day coming up on 24th March, it’s a great time to increase awareness about TB”, says Elias Phiri, Head of Awareness Programmes at TB Alert.
