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  The Stop TB Partnership was established in 2000 to realize the goal of eliminating tuberculosis as a public health problem.

Our vision is a TB free world: the first children born this millennium will see tuberculosis eliminated in their lifetime.
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Union World Conference on Lung Health
16 to 20 October 2008
Paris, France

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This Weeks TB News

Below are listed various news items relating to tuberculosis and tuberculosis control which are gathered on a weekly basis from around the world.

TB care set to improve

Daily Nation
03 September 2008 11:25

Healthcare workers in Kenya will from now be more accountable to those they treat following the launch on Monday of the International Standards for... continued

Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis May Be Treatable, Researchers Say

Bloomberg
03 September 2008 11:24

People with tuberculosis that is resistant to most antibiotics may be treatable with more aggressive use of the medicines... continued

Rifamycin Antibiotics Attack Tuberculosis Bacteria With Walls, Not Signals

Science Daily
01 September 2008 11:30

Amid concerns about the rising number of new tuberculosis cases worldwide, researchers led by Rockefeller University’s Seth A. Darst have reexamined and... continued

Tuberculosis outbreak may take five years to contain

The Globe and Mail
01 September 2008 11:21

It may take up to five years to squelch a tuberculosis outbreak that has plagued the central Vancouver Island community of Port Alberni since late 2005 when a homeless, mentally ill addict was... continued