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GLOBAL EVENTS
LAUNCH OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) GLOBAL TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL 2008 REPORT
WHO Director-General to report progress to date on the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. New data and findings from the WHO report Global Tuberculosis Control...
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ALL-PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP WORLD TB DAY EVENT PRESENTATION OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION GLOBAL TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL REPORT 2008
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PHOTO OPPORTUNITY WITH LUIS FIGO, STOP TB AMBASSADOR
Portugal's 'golden boy' and Inter FC star will take part in a penalty shoot-out with MPs and schoolchildren at the launch of the "I Am Stopping TB" campaign to raise international attention on tuberculosis, a leading killer in the world today.
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EXPERT ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a global medical technology company, along with Scientific American Magazine, The Stop TB Partnership, The Global Health Council and The Earth Institute at Columbia University, will commemorate World Tuberculosis (TB) Day with a roundtable discussion featuring some of the world’s leading TB experts.
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WORLD TUBERCULOSIS DAY AT THE NYSE
Edward J. Ludwig, BD Chairman, President, and CEO, Dr. Giorgio Roscigno, CEO of FIND, and Jorge Sampaio, UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to Stop TB, to Ring The Closing Bell℠
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REGIONAL EVENTS
AMERICAS: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LOS ANGELES COUNTY WORLD TB DAY FORUM 2008
The World TB Day forum is intended to engage community leaders in Los Angeles County in an effort to educate them about the risk of TB and what they can do to combat TB in their communities.
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TALK TB: STOP TB
Be a participant in the global conversation on 2008 World TB Day! Gather at Town Hall Seattle on March 24th to converse with a panel of leaders in tuberculosis research and healthcare.
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SNOHOMISH COUNTY HONORS WORLD TB DAY
Every year in March, the world acknowledges the toll tuberculosis(TB) has taken on millions of beautiful lives. Many people in our community care about TB and now is the time to listen to their voices and be part of the global movement to eliminate TB.
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TUBERCULOSIS AWARENESS AT BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Student research on TB and student designed poster displays and public service announcements to educate the college population.
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AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ABOUT WORLD TB DAY TARGETING YOUTH, WASHINGTON DC
Student research on TB and student designed poster displays and public service announcements to educate the college population.
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CHOPIN, JENNY LIND AND HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN IN N.Y. STATE
Icons of Europe (Brussels) will co-produce the U.S. premiere of “Chopin and The Nightingale”, a dramatic reading with music in six acts for narrator, two sopranos and piano, at the Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum, Bolton Landing, New York on 25 and 27 July 2008.
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EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION: PAKISTAN
WORLD TB DAY 2008 SYMPOSIUM
One day symposium having two scientific sessions covering basic sciences and clinical aspects of TB diagnosis and management.
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WORLD TB DAY OBSERVANCES IN PUNJAB AND BALUCHISTAN
The national and provincial TB control programmes and the district administrations in collaboration with the NGO partner, the Association for Social Development, announces the celebration of World TB day 2008 in Pakistan.
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA:
INDIA
STOP TB FROM OUR SOCIETY
KRITYANAND UNESCO CLUB, Jamshedpur ,India will organize a confrence on the theme "stop Tb from our society " for providing the information on TB patients and how Communities can stop TB by sharing information to help prevent the disease and get treatment to those who need it.
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BANGLADESH
WORLD TB DAY PLANNED ACTIVITIES
1- Rally with Garment factories involved in the COMDIS research project on TB care in the workplace, special t shirts being produced.
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NEPAL
ACTIVITIES AROUND KATHMANDU
The Health Research and Social Development Forum ( HERD) will mark World TB day by starting a TB awareness campaign targeting urban poor living in slum areas in the Kathmandu valley.
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WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
EUROPE:
ROMANIA
WORLD TB DAY PLANNED ACTIVITIES
The Romanian Christian Humanitarian Foundation will celebrate World TB day 2008 on the 24th of March by hosting a special I AM STOPPING TB learning event for children at the Funny English Center in Iasi, were the press will be invited.
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WHO Regional Office for Europe
SWITZERLAND
Eleven Nurses Win the 2nd ICN/Lilly Award for Work in Tuberculosis and Multi-drug Resistant TB
On the occasion of World TB Day, the International Council of Nurses (ICN), in partnership with Eli Lilly, conferred special awards to nurses working on the ground in fighting the scourge of tuberculosis (TB) and multi-drug resistant TB. The 2008 award recipients come from six TB affected countries: Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, the Russian Federation, South Africa and Swaziland.
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WESTERN PACIFIC
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
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