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If you would like to join the Patient-Led Task Force please contact me: bertand_kampoer@yahoo.fr 
Run4Life
TB still suffers from a lack of visibility in donor countries and a lack of mobilization in high burden countries. If asked to rank the global seriousness of diseases around the world, the average person in Paris, London, New York, Tokyo would rank HIV/AIDS, polio, malaria and perhaps cancer, diabetes and vaccine preventable diseases fi rst. TB is seldom mentioned. XDR-TB has changed that to a certain degree, but visibility of TB can still be improved. 
In 2004 TBTV.ORG, the global TB-Patient NGO, created the "Run for Life" campaign and organized participation in the Paris Marathon in April 2005 while initiating simultaneous mini-marathons in two developing countries (involving a few hundred people in each). Twelve patients (TB, TB-HIV, and MDR-TB) and their supporters ran the Paris marathon in a relay while one ran the entire race, and two members of... 
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The Pakistan Anti TB Association (PATA) is organizing an International Workshop for ACSM from 28 – 30 July 2007 in Lahore under the auspices of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases – South East Asian Region with the guidance and cooperation National TB Control Program Government of Pakistan. The delegates from all SAARC countries including Myanmar are participating in it. Contact:  
There are many great initiatives being led by current and former TB/MDR-TB patients. As our community grows and more activists and advocates are doing good works, it is difficult to keep up with what everyone is doing. The TB Survival Project (www.tbsurvivalproject.org) has created the Community Action Report (C.A.R) to aid a better understanding between activists and advocates. It's aim is to outline what indivduals and organisations are doing in respect of their HIV/TB and MDR-TB activities. The benefits of this are sharing our experience, preventing replication, and providing opportunities for capacity building and collaboration between each other. You may want want to take a look at the attached diagram (PDF format) as an example. It shows the activites of the TB Survival Project. This is one way of getting across information in a simple and understandable manner. You may also want to write a few words (we suggest a maximum of 700) outlining your current activities, acheivements, and plans for the future. Log onto the TB Surival Project Website and send in your information. It can then be posted on the website, thereby centralizing data where people can view this information. Read more...
The number of ACSM Working Group members is: 179.
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Just a word about my own organization. FISS-MST/SIDA is a community based organization formed by people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS in 1997 in Yaoundé, Cameroon. My organization provides support to patients infected with HIV and TB in 6 universities, both in urban and rural Cameroon. This year for the first time, as a result of our advocacy activities the Minister of Health will declare universal access to ARVs for the whole country.