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Regional Workshop on Public and Private Mix/
Practical Approach to Lung Health in TB Control, Kathmandu,
19-23 September 2011
Countries in the South East Asia Region have
continued to make steady progress with TB control. The number of notified TB
cases has been steadily increasing with more than 2 million TB patients
initiated on treatment in the Region during 2009. Based on data from National
TB programmes in Member countries in 2009, the
overall treatment success rate achieved in the Region as a whole was 88%,
close to the current target of 90%. More Info…
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Better diagnostics and new drugs essential for
fighting tuberculosis
WHO and the STOP TB
partnerships are advocating a new approach to eliminating tuberculosis
through improved, quicker diagnosis, more effective drugs and vaccines and
stronger health systems. This approach has been set out in
”The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015: Transforming the Fight”,
launched today in Berlin,
Germany. The
goal is to reach the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halting and
reversing the TB epidemic by 2015, and halving the number of deaths due to
the disease compared to 1990 levels. The ultimate aim is to eliminate TB as a
public health problem by 2050.
More… [PDF 80
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The
Global Plan to Stop TB
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World TB Day 2011: Strengthening and
innovating strategy to eliminate TB
 Considerable progress has been made in
controlling TB in the Region. Over two million people with TB are being
successfully treated every year in the countries of the Region. As a result,
the proportion of the region’s population becoming affected with TB has been
declining each year since 1990 and death rates are falling. The slogan for World TB Day 2011
“Strengthening and innovating strategy to eliminate TB” reflects this
theme. But the Region is still home to
one out of three people with TB in the world. New and better tools to fight
tuberculosis are now available due to important advances in TB research,
particularly in more recent years. At the same time, more resources are being
made available for TB control in countries. We can and must meet the MDGs if we put in place innovative approaches and work
together in new and different ways.
More…
Press release - WHO:
greater innovation key to fight tuberculosis
Quiz on TB
Top Score
World TB Day 2011: Street Play [Video:
WMV 07:51 min]
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TB in South-East Asia 2009
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Consultative Meeting on Regional Response Plan
for Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant TB
 The 60th World Health Assembly passed
resolution in 2007 requesting WHO to strengthen its support to countries
affected by TB, in particular those heavily affected by Multidrug-resistant
and Extensively Drug-Resistant TB (MD/XDR-TB) as well as TB/HIV.
At the 60th SEA Regional
Committee, following the Ministerial Meeting of High MDR-TB burden countries
in Beijing, China in April 2009, and the 62nd
World Health Assembly, resolutions urging all Member States to achieve
universal access to diagnosis and treatment of multidrug-resistant and
extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, and monitor achievement in its
prevention and control were endorsed. More… [PDF 12
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