Advocacy: World Stop TB Day 2006

2006 World TB Day Materials

2006 World Stop TB Day Media Coverage in California (.pdf)

2005 Provisional Data (presented in .pdf format)

Tuberculosis Cases and Case Rates per 100,000 Population: California, 1985-2005

Tuberculosis Cases by Race/Ethnicity, Age Group, Sex, Birthplace: California, 1996-2005

Tuberculosis Case Rates per 100,000 Population by Race/Ethnicity, Age Group, Sex: California, 1996-2005

Tuberculosis Cases in Foreign-born Persons by Country of Origin and Time in the United States: California, 2005

Tuberculosis Cases, Rates per 100,000 Population and Rank According to Rate: Reporting Jurisdictions in California, 2004-2005

Tuberculosis Cases by Year: Reporting Jurisdictions in California, 1996-2005

Tuberculosis Case Rates per 100,000 Population: Reporting Jurisdictions in California, 1996-2005

Background Information

Stopping TB Has Never Been More Achievable (.doc)

External Links

Global Plan to Stop TB

International Standards for Tuberculosis Care

The Patients' Charter for Tuberculosis Care

Guidelines, Statements & Standards on Tuberculosis (version 8)

Contacts

Local Contact Information for CA TB Programs

To read a transcript of the California World Stop TB Day Media Call held on March 23, 2006, visit www.results.org.

Speakers:

-Senator Barbara Boxer, Co-sponsor of upcoming TB bill in Senate
-Dr. Robert Benjamin, medical director, Alameda County TB Control Program and president of the California Public Health Association - North
-Dr. Paul Nunn, Coordinator, Stop TB Department, World Health Organization

This call was sponsored by RESULTS, a citizens’ lobbying group that educates members of Congress and the media about solutions to hunger and poverty at home and abroad.