38th Union World Conference on Lung Health:
Speak Your World through HDN initiatives

Coverage from Cape Town sponsored by the Stop TB Partnership

A Health and Development Networks (HDN) Key Correspondent (KC) Team of eight KCs from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, India, Thailand and the Philippines are providing issue-focused coverage of the 38th Union World Conference on Lung Health from 8-12 November in Cape Town, South Africa. To read previous KC articles or to join the KC Team, visit: www.TheCorrespondent.org or write to: info@thecorrespondent.org.

Please click on the links below to read the articles. Please note this web site will be updated daily with more features from Cape Town.

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Coverage 13 November 2007

• Children neglected in response to TB
• Partnerships are the way forward
• TB control to strengthen health systems

Coverage 12 November 2007

• Improved data on XDR-TB early next year: WHO
• Integration of TB/HIV services still poor
• Jail for TB treatment defaulters
• New technologies vital to fight TB
• New tools for TB prevention, diagnosis and treatment urgently needed

Coverage 11 November 2007

• Missing the target: Struggling to meet global TB control goals
• Smoking increases the risk of tuberculosis
• Using the internet to train physicians on MDR-TB

Coverage 10 November 2007

• Cape Town march calls for more effective responses
• New diagnostic technology raises hope in TB-endemic countries
• Who will champion the cause of TB among children?
• Prioritizing needs in TB control and treatment

Coverage 9 November 2007

• Community and TB care
• Integrating TB responses into HBC programmes
• Tackling the health sector brain drain
• TB conference highlights need for joint TB and HIV programmes
• Extensively drug-resistant TB: controlling infection