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2012: Call for a world free of TB; 2013: Stop TB in my lifetime; 2014: Reach the three million: A TB test, treatment and cure for all; 2015: Gear up to end TB; 2016: Unite to End TB; 2017: Unite to End TB; 2018: Wanted: Leaders for a TB-free world; 2019: It's time; 2020: It's time to end TB! 2021: The clock is ticking; 2022: Invest to end TB ...
The report highlights ongoing obstacles in combating TB, including severe funding shortages that hinder efforts toward eradication. Although TB-related deaths decreased slightly to 1.25 million in 2023 from 1.32 million in 2022, the overall number of new cases rose marginally to an estimated 10.8 million.
The Stop TB Initiative was established following the meeting of the First Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Tuberculosis Epidemic held in London in March 1998. [4] In March 2000 the Stop TB Partnership produced the Amsterdam Declaration to Stop TB, which called for action from ministerial delegations of 20 countries with the highest burden of TB.
Prospects for tuberculosis control and elimination in a hypothetical high-burden country, starting in 2015. Tuberculosis has been a curable illness since the 1940s when the first drugs became available, although multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB present an increasing challenge. [5]
The DOTS report was released to the public on March 20, 1995, at New York City's Health Department. At the news conference, Tom Frieden, head of the city's Bureau of TB Control captured the essence of DOTS, "TB control is basically a management problem." Frieden had been credited for using the strategy to turn around New York City's TB outbreak ...
The Global Fund’s investments have reduced deaths from HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria by 61% since 2002, saving 65 million lives. [27] Recent efforts include lowering the cost of key treatments for drug-resistant TB by 55% and first-line HIV medications by 25%, while introducing a more effective insecticide-treated mosquito net. [28]
Management of tuberculosis refers to techniques and procedures utilized for treating tuberculosis (TB), or simply a treatment plan for TB.. The medical standard for active TB is a short course treatment involving a combination of isoniazid, rifampicin (also known as Rifampin), pyrazinamide, and ethambutol for the first two months.
In January 2019, the Duterte administration established the Philippines' 19th Malasakit Center at the Lung Center. [13] On January 23, 2024, President Bongbong Marcos launched the country’s first Lung Transplant Program at the Center in collaboration with the National Kidney and Transplant Institute. [14]