TB Anywhere is TB everywhere - World TB Day 2007

26th June, 2007

This year’s World TB Day theme emphasises that although TB is a preventable and curable disease, it remains a global emergency due in large part to the inadequate investment in TB control, surveillance, research and development. The theme also reflects TB’s deadly synergy with HIV.

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World TB Day Campaign 2007 – Report from Himafar Unpad, Indonesia

26th June, 2007

On 23 March, Faculty of Pharmacy students from Padjadjaran University, Jatinangor, Indonesia, campaigned to raise TB awareness among all students, to mark World TB Day 2007. Pharmacy students provided information on TB prevention, reducing risk factors and staying healthy. They emphasized TB can be cured by taking prescribed treatment routinely.

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IPSF & IFMSA at WHA 2007

26th June, 2007

IPSF together with the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA) made a joint Statement to the World Health Assembly in Geneva in May this year. Increasing awareness among health professionals and the community of continuing drug resistance and promoting multi-disciplinary collaboration were key priorities of the Statement.

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Epidemic Levelling Off – Global Tuberculosis Control Report 2007

26th June, 2007

The global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic has levelled off for the first time since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared TB a public health emergency in 1993. The Global Tuberculosis Control Report released today by WHO finds that the percentage of the world's population struck by TB peaked in 2004 and then held steady in 2005.

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Tuberculosis and Air Travel

1st June, 2007

WHO guidelines are now available on TB prevention during air travel. A health advisory from CDC followed confirmation of travel undertaken by a passenger with extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) on a recent trans-Atlantic flight.

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Tuberculosis Care - Engaging the Private Sector

12th July, 2006

The June 2006 issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in its editorial and research sections, focuses on tuberculosis care as an integral component in the prevention and control of the disease and on provision of TB healthcare services by the private sector.

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World TB Day 2006 - Nepalese Students Campaign on Campus

24th March 2006

Students from the Forum for Pharmacy in Nepal used the occasion of World TB Day to raise awareness of TB among fellow students, emphasising epidemiology, transmission and treatment. Using campaign materials from IPSF and WHO Nepal, students placed messages on notice-boards throughout the campus. The Forum also organised a discussion on "The State of TB treatment in Nepal".

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Latvian Students Take Action on World TB Day 2006

24th March 2006

Pharmaceutical and medical students in Riga, Latvia, collaborated to bring the attention of both fellow students and the community at large to the problems of TB.

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Himafar Unpad World Tuberculosis Day Campaign

On 24th March 2006, while the world was in a full spirit to fight tuberculosis, Himafar Unpad held a big campaign in Unpad, Indonesia, to fight and raise awareness of tuberculosis, both the disease and the pandemic. The campaign was a great success.

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Official launch of site at World Health Assembly

CPA President Grace Allen Young and IPSF President Tana Wuliji, met in Geneva during May at the World Health Assembly to officially launch the site and forum.  During a meeting with the Stop TB Partnership in Geneva, both Presidents agreed that extensive networks of community pharmacies represented a significant and under-utilised component of overall health infrastructures in the management of TB.

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Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association
Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria
Workshop – “The Burden of Tuberculosis in Nigeria”
Abuja, Nigeria – 22 March 2005

The CPA/PSN Workshop was organized to increase public awareness of the huge burden of tuberculosis (TB) in Nigeria and to encourage pharmacists to become more involved in the prevention and management of TB.  It was an opportunity to promote the role of the pharmacist as a frontline healthcare provider supporting public health initiatives.

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World Stop TB Day 2005

24th March 2005

To complement the Stop TB Partnership theme for 2005 “Frontline TB Care Providers”, the Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association’s theme “Pharmacists – Frontline Providers” highlighted the role of pharmacists in promoting TB awareness at community level. 

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New WHO Report on Tuberculosis

24th March 2005

On World Stop TB Day, March 24, the World Health Organization released the report Global Tuberculosis Control 2005.   According to the report in most areas of the world, the battle against tuberculosis is being successfully fought, but in Africa the disease has reached alarming proportions.  The number of TB cases in Africa has tripled since 1990, and the number deaths linked to co-infection with HIV are rising sharply.  The report is available on-line at http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/en/

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