Items tagged with Global TB response

Global Fund reports results – 2014 (post)

GENEVA – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today announced new results that show acceleration in efforts to end the AIDS epidemic. In the past year, an additional 1.3 million people began treatment for HIV in programs supported by the Global Fund, a 20 percent increase, bringing the total to 7.3 million people.

Early impact of NFM discouraging, says EECA civil society (post)

Civil society groups in Eastern Europe and Central Asia continue to issue dire prognostications about the impact that the reduced contribution by the Global Fund to their harm reduction and other activities is having under the new funding model.

Global Fund releases end-2014 numbers (post)

Numbers of people reached and services provided continues to rise

Laying the foundation for an ambitious Global Plan 2016-2020 (post)

15 December 2014 – Geneva, Switzerland – TB technical experts and civil society representatives from eight country groups, as well as experts from WHO and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, met today to lay the foundation for an ambitious Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020.

January 2015 issue of the IJTLD now online (post)

The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) is the official publication of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union).

Congress adds $300 million to PEPFAR for FY15, in bill global health advocates say recognizes critical needs (post)

The world’s largest humanitarian and health program dedicated to defeating a single disease will have more to work with in the coming year, with a Congressional spending bill released Tuesday that increases, or maintains from last year’s allocations almost all areas of global health spending for fiscal year 2015. The bill includes a $300 million increase for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief over the amount allotted for fiscal year 2014, and over the amount requested by President Obama in his FY15 proposed budget. The allotment of $4.3 billion for PEPFAR restores half of the $600 million in cuts PEPFAR has seen since 2011.

Tuberculosis post-2015: looking to the future with optimism (post)

Bold plans are being set in motion to build on the success of tackling tuberculosis so far, but despite these past successes the need to act is no less urgent. Talha Burki reports.

Latvia to host ground-breaking conference on TB in Europe (post)

16 December 2014 - Geneva, Switzerland - Latvia holding the Presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2015 will host the first European ministerial conference on tuberculosis and drug resistance on the 31st of March in Riga.

MSF flipboard: The global scourge of TB (post)

A recent resurgence of TB and the spread of drug-resistant forms makes it an urgent concern.

December 2014 issue of PHA and Supplement now online (post)

Public Health Action is The Union's free access, online journal. The journal aims to promote the vision of The Union, Health solutions for the poor, by disseminating new knowledge on health systems and health services for vulnerable groups, with a priority on tuberculosis, lung health, non-communicable diseases and related public health issues.

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