| Tuberculosis
Global efforts to fight TB
There are a number of global efforts
to fight tuberculosis, which include,
The
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, was
set up to help combat these three diseases that kill a daunting
six million people a year. The Fund was initiated last year
by an alliance of private donors, non-governmental organizations
(NGOs), foundations, national governments and intergovernmental
organizations. The first call for funding proposals started
in Spring 2002.
Stop
TB is a global movement to accelerate social and political
action to stop the unnecessary spread of tuberculosis around
the world. It involves all those organisations and individuals
committed to short- and long-term measures required to control
and eventually eliminate TB as a public health problem in
the world.
Targets:
- By 2005: 70 per cent of people with infectious TB will
be diagnosed, and 85% cured
- By 2010: The global burden of TB disease (deaths and prevalence)
will be reduced by 50 per cent (compared with 2000 levels)
- By 2050: The global incidence of TB disease will be less
than one per million people
The Global TB
Drug Facility (GDF) is a mechanism to expand access to,
and availability of, high-quality TB drugs to facilitate global
DOTS expansion. |
Health and community care
