World Stop TB Day - March 24th, 2008
Data:
2007 California Data Tables (A - D) (.pdf)
Links:
California Department of Public Health, Tuberculosis Control Branch data.
Centers for Disease Control, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination links, data, and activites
STOP TB Partnership links and activities
World TB Day Events:
March 24, 2008: San Francisco observed World Stop TB Day with a press conference at the San Francisco International Aiport.
Click here for the press release (.pdf)
March 17, 2008: RESULTS hosted a press briefing via conference call on state of global Tuberculosis epidemic in advance of World TB Day; Noon ET (9:00am PT)
Click here to go to written transcript of the call (www.results.org)
Click here for a sample OpEd from RESULTS (.doc)
March 15, 2008: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health TB Control Program and TB Coalition Partners hosted pre-World TB Day Forum, with Keynote Speaker State Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas.
TB Coalition of Los Angeles County materials: World TB Day Advocacy Letter (.doc) & Talking Points (.doc)
March 13, 2008: The American Lung Association of California hosted a news conference via conference call for members of the media from 10:30-11:30am PT.
Click here for the statewide news release (.pdf)
An audio recording of the conference call will be available shortly.
The STOP TB Partnership announced World TB Day theme in the following message:
November 9, 2007
Cape Town, South Africa - A campaign aimed at challenging people all over the world to do their part to fight tuberculosis (TB) will be launched early in 2008 in the run-up to World TB Day. Plans for the campaign were announced by Stop TB Ambassador Anna Cataldi at the opening ceremony of the World Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease at the Cape Town International Convention Center today. World TB Day is held each year on 24 March.
"The slogan, "I am stopping TB," says that everyone can take an active role in helping all people in need gain access to accurate TB diagnosis and effective treatment," Ms Cataldi said.
Patients can stop TB by becoming active participants in their own cure and taking all their anti-TB drugs as prescribed.
Health workers can stop TB by staying alert to the symptoms of the disease and providing prompt diagnosis and treatment.
Scientists can stop TB by engaging in needed research to develop new diagnostics, new drugs and new vaccines.
Teachers can stop TB by educating their students about this age-old scourge.
Communities can stop TB by sharing information to help prevent the disease and get treatment to those who need it.
"The challenge we are putting to people across the world is, 'What are you doing to stop TB? Please join us in the fight," said Dr Marcos Espinal, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership.
There are nearly nine million new cases of TB worldwide and the disease still kills more than a million-and-a-half people every year, even though it can be cured with a six-month course of antibiotics that costs only US$ 20.
The Stop TB Partnership, which is hosted by the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, is a network of more then 500 international organizations, countries, donors from the public and private sectors, and nongovernmental and governmental organizations that are working together to eliminate TB. The Partnership's Global Plan to Stop TB (2006-2015) sets forth a roadmap for treating 50 million people for TB and enrolling 3 million patients who have both TB and HIV on antiretroviral therapy over the next 10 years, saving about 14 million lives. It aims to halve TB prevalence and deaths compared with 1990 levels by 2015.
For further information, please contact:
Judith Mandelbaum-Schmid, Communications Officer, Stop TB Partnership
+41 22 791 29 67, mobile +41 79 254 6835,
Email: schmidj@who.int
More information on the Stop TB Partnership is available at www.stoptb.org
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