World TB Day - 24 March 2003

News Articles

Press Releases

Press Events

News Articles

Radio Transcripts

Press Releases:

• Ethiopia: Press Release for 'World TB Day 2003', TB and Leprosy Control Programme under the Department of Disease Prevention and Control at the Federal Ministry of Health, Ethiopia, 24 March

• South Africa:
  - Government appeals to South Africans to STOP TB, Nelson Mandela Metropole (Port Elizabeth), National TB Control Programme (NTCP), South Africa, 24 March
  
  - South Africa’s united pledge to 'STOP TB – BECAUSE I CAN!', National TB Control Programme (NTCP), South Africa, 24 March
  
  - STOP TB – BECAUSE YOU CAN!, Johannesburg, National TB Control Programme (NTCP), South Africa, 17 March

• Switzerland:
  - 'World Health Organization Director-General Nominee Sees Reduction in TB Transmission, But HIV a Major Threat to TB Control', Press Release from the Stop TB Partnership in collaboration with UK Partner - TB Alert, 24 March
  
  - 'WHO reports 10 million TB patients successfully treated under “DOTS” 10 years after declaring TB a Gobal Emergency', Press Release from the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 24 March
  
  - 'Gains in combating TB threatened by AIDS, says Red Cross Red Crescent' - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva, Switzerland, 24 March

• USA:
  - 'New Tuberculosis Drugs Required to Eliminate Epidemic, Meet Economic Development Goals' - Press Release, Global Alliance Drug Development, New York, USA, 24 March
  
  - Statement for World TB Day - 24 March 2003, by Treatment Action Group (TAG), New York, 24 March
  
  - 'Coalition Urges Diligence in Combating Global, U.S. Tuberculosis - March 24 Is World TB Day: An Opportunity To Address TB Emergency', NCET, USA, 24 March
  
  - 'Tuberculosis Can Be Controlled, Cured And Prevented', World TB Day message by Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, 19 March
  
  - 'World TB Day Call: It’s time for a faster Cure' - Press Teleconference, Global Alliance Drug Development, New York, USA, 19 March

Press Events

• South Africa:
  - Press event featuring the Minister of Health Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang who announced the national TB campaign. Preview of TV documentary " Precious breaths, South Africa's needless deaths.

• UK:
  - London Press Event in collaboration with UK partner TB Alert featuring Dr W Lee, DG Nominee and Clare Short, Sec of State for International Development.

• USA:
  - Washington tele-press briefing in collaboration with Results USA featuring Senator Barbara Boxer and Rep. Sherrod Brown..
  - Washington Press Conference U.S. Sec of Health and Human Services & GFATM chairman Tommy Thompson, Anne Peterson of USAID, Ken Castro of CDC organised by NCET.
  [Speech by Dr K. Castro (pdf 12kb), speech by Dr A. Peterson (pdf 11kb)]

News Articles:

• 2/04/2003
  - AFGHANISTAN: World TB Day marked - IRIN News.org

• 27/03/2003
  - DOTS for TB; A treatment to match a killer infection - Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio)

• 25/03/2003
  - Britain's TB Shame - Daily Mail (London)
  - The TB scourge - Jang Group of Newspapers
  - Millions beat TB in South Pacific - PNG Post-Courier
  - TB afflicts 3 lakh people every year - The Independent
  - Namibia; Namibia Losing TB Battle - Africa News
  - 60,000 die of TB in Pakistan annually - Dawn, Pakistan
  - TB at Third World levels - The Daily Telegraph (London)
  - Keeping the world safe from TB - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  - Sindh may witness 61,000 TB cases yearly - Dawn, Pakistan
  - Pakistani doctors unaware of proper TB treatment - Khabrain
  - WHO Reaches 10 Million With DOTS Treatment - UN News Wire
  - Medical curriculum should include treatment of TB - Express, Pakistan
  - 'Less 10pc of TB patients have access to DOTS' - The News, Pakistan
  - Pakistani doctors not aware of correct TB treatment - Jasarat, Pakistan
  - Doctors not well acquainted with TB in Pakistan - The Nation, Pakistan
  - Boosting detection is goal of 2003 World TB Day - Reuters Foundation
  - Myanmar makes progress in TB treatment - Xinhua General News Service
  - Scale up the global fight against tuberculosis - The International Herald Tribune
  - Need for training doctors for TB treatment stressed - Business Recorder, Pakistan
  - TB twice as likely to strike China's countryside than cities - Agence France Presse
  - US-Mexico Launch Cross-Border Initiative Against TB - World Markets Analysis
  - Over 300,000 tuberculosis cases per year in Bangladesh - BBC Monitoring South Asia
  - Tuberculosis treatment in DR Congo well short of UN standards - Agence France Presse
  - World TB Day Seminar: Less than 10 percent of TB patients have access to DOTS programme - Jang, Pakistan
  

• 24/03/2003
  
  - Russia marks World TB Day Monday - TASS
  - Tanzania: Focus On Tuberculosis - Africa News
  - War against TB: Let's Contribute - The Kathmandu Post
  - TB control programme govt's top priority: PM - The Rising Sun
  - DOTS has cured many and can cure 'you' too - The Kathmandu Post
  - Gains in combating TB threatened by AIDS - Red Cross Red Crescent
  - Tuberculosis and Malaria Still Massive Killers Worldwide - The Vancouver Sun
  - Global Fund Marks World Day By Urging Better Drug Access - UN News Wire
  - La tuberculosis sigue creciendo en Santander - Vanguardia Liberal, Bucaramanga, Colombia
  - TB spreads unabated in sub-Saharan Africa despite progress elsewhere: WHO - Agence France Presse
  - Hoy se celebra el Día Mundial de esta enfermedad: La tuberculosis sigue creciendo en Santander - Vanguardia Liberal, Bucaramanga, Colombia
  - Hoy 24 de marzo se celebra una nueva edición de esta jornada, cuyo lema es "El tratamiento DOTS me curó: ¡También te curará a ti!" - Ediciones Doyma
  - World Health Organization Director-General Nominee Sees Reduction in TB Transmission but HIV a Major Threat to TB Control;World TB Day 24 March 2003 - Business Wire

• 23/03/2003
  - World TB Day Observed - The Nation, Pakistan
  - Drug resistant TB on the rise - Dawn, Pakistan
  - Community urged to enhance cooperative effort against TB: HK official - Xinhua General News Service

• 21/03/2003
  - Kiss killer TB goodbye - BusinessWorld
  - Liberia; Monday is World TB Day - Africa News
  - PanAfrica; TB Infects 1.6 million, Kills 600,000 Annually In Africa - Africa News
  - Despite Slight Decrease in Tuberculosis Cases in California, Amercian Lung Association of California Cautions Against Relaxing Prevention Efforts on World TB Day, March 24 - AScribe Newswire

• 17/03/2003
  - Tuberculosis still threatens world health - The Guardian

• 27/02/2003
  - "The advent of chemotherapeutic agents that inhibit TNF-alpha, and reports of tuberculosis in patients receiving these agents have raised concerns about the risk of reactivation of latent mycobacterial infection and the most appropriate steps that should be taken to prevent such reactivation." - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, March 2003: Issue devoted to World Tuberculosis Day on March 24

• 06/02/2003
  - TB Awareness Campaign - The Department of Health have stepped up their campaign among the ethnic communities to raise awareness of Tuberculosis and its symptoms - The UK's Leading Asian Portal

Programmes Broadcasted on Radio (transcripts)

• 14/03/2003
  - Analysis: Spreading epidemic of tuberculosis and HIV combination in Russia
  Russia has the fastest growing rates of HIV in the world and already has among the highest rates of dangerous multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, particularly within its prison system. With the intersection of these two diseases, Russia and the entire global community face a deadly and unprecedented co-epidemic. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports.

   

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