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WHO takes aim at tuberculosis with new 5-year plan
Wed Oct 13, 2010
* TB kills nearly 2 million people a year
* WHO says TB usually curable if diagnosed early
By Jon Herskovitz
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation laid out a new plan on Wednesday to combat tuberculosis and the nearly 2 million deaths it causes each year through a combination of better testing, diagnosis and drugs.
"The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015" will cost about $47 billion, with money going to fund more testing labs and research projects to develop and deliver medicine to treat the disease, it said in its plan.
"The stakes are high: without rapid scale-up of TB prevention and treatment, some 10 million people will die of a curable disease by 2015," said Marcos Espinal, the partnership's executive secretary.
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Oct 13, 2010
Experts warn of 10m TB deaths
JOHANNESBURG - TEN million people will die of tuberculosis in the next five years if global funding to fight the disease is not increased, the Stop TB Partnership warned on Wednesday.
The Partnership, a coalition of governments, non-profits, companies and international organisations, said US$47 billion (S$61 billion) are needed to save five million lives between now and 2015, including two million women and children.
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Stop TB Partnership launches the Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015
13 October 2010 -
Johannesburg/Berlin/Geneva - The world could be on its way towards eliminating tuberculosis (TB) if governments and donors fully invest in a plan released today by the Stop TB Partnership. The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015: Transforming the Fight-Towards Elimination of Tuberculosis for the first time, identifies all the research gaps that need to be filled to bring rapid TB tests, faster treatment regimens and a fully effective vaccine to market.
It also shows public health programmes how to drive universal access to TB care, including how to modernize diagnostic laboratories and adopt revolutionary TB tests that have recently become available.
Read more: Stop TB Partnership
TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI)
New vaccines are urgently needed to stop tuberculosis. Every year around 9 million new cases of this infectious disease are recorded. Every year almost 2 million people die of TB, equaling one death every 18 seconds.
Read more
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Wed Oct 13, 2010
* TB kills nearly 2 million people a year
* WHO says TB usually curable if diagnosed early
By Jon Herskovitz
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation laid out a new plan on Wednesday to combat tuberculosis and the nearly 2 million deaths it causes each year through a combination of better testing, diagnosis and drugs.
"The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015" will cost about $47 billion, with money going to fund more testing labs and research projects to develop and deliver medicine to treat the disease, it said in its plan.
"The stakes are high: without rapid scale-up of TB prevention and treatment, some 10 million people will die of a curable disease by 2015," said Marcos Espinal, the partnership's executive secretary.
Read more
Oct 13, 2010
Experts warn of 10m TB deaths
JOHANNESBURG - TEN million people will die of tuberculosis in the next five years if global funding to fight the disease is not increased, the Stop TB Partnership warned on Wednesday.
The Partnership, a coalition of governments, non-profits, companies and international organisations, said US$47 billion (S$61 billion) are needed to save five million lives between now and 2015, including two million women and children.
Read more
Stop TB Partnership launches the Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015
13 October 2010 -
Johannesburg/Berlin/Geneva - The world could be on its way towards eliminating tuberculosis (TB) if governments and donors fully invest in a plan released today by the Stop TB Partnership. The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015: Transforming the Fight-Towards Elimination of Tuberculosis for the first time, identifies all the research gaps that need to be filled to bring rapid TB tests, faster treatment regimens and a fully effective vaccine to market.
It also shows public health programmes how to drive universal access to TB care, including how to modernize diagnostic laboratories and adopt revolutionary TB tests that have recently become available.
Read more: Stop TB Partnership
TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI)
New vaccines are urgently needed to stop tuberculosis. Every year around 9 million new cases of this infectious disease are recorded. Every year almost 2 million people die of TB, equaling one death every 18 seconds.
Read more
.