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.

First IPSF/WHO Intern begins work in Geneva

Maureen Forrestel, from the United States of America, is the first pharmacy student to be awarded an IPSF/WHO Internship. She began her three month program at the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat on 2 June 2005. Maureen writes on her experience so far:

An international web-based initiative for pharmacists and pharmacy students

Worldwide, more than two million people die each year from tuberculosis (TB) - more than any other curable infectious disease. Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacilli every second. Overall, one-third of the world’s population is currently infected. Five to ten percent of these people will become sick or infectious at some time during their life. People who are co-infected with HIV are many times more likely to become sick; with TB also accounting for 13% of AIDS deaths worldwide.

The Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association (CPA) and International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF) have teamed up to create this international forum.
                                                                                                               
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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.

TB Fact Card Launched

24th March 2005

The TB Fact Card was launched by Mr Devinder Pal, CPA Coucillor for India, on World Stop TB Day. The launch was attended by TB specialists from the Maharashtra State Department of Health, President of the Indian Pharmaceutical Association, Mr Subodh Priolkar, pharmacists in Mumbai and students studying to become pharmacists. The launch attracted wide media interest, and included both television and newspaper coverage.

Pharmacists Frontline Providers – World Stop TB Day 2005

5 March 05 – Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association

“As frontline healthcare providers, pharmacists throughout the Commonwealth dispense medicines and offer information and care to all members of their communities,” says Grace Allen Young, President of the Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association (CPA), “and this especially applies in relation to the resurgence of Tuberculosis worldwide.”