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Tuberculosis (TB) Day is held every year on March 24, the
day German microbiologist Robert Koch discovered the TB bacillus
in 1887.
Today, TB is a disease of poverty, with the vast majority
of cases occurring in Africa and Asia. In 2005, 1.6 million
people died of TB, about 4,400 each day. The disease is also
a leading killer of people who are HIV/AIDS positive, especially
in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Millenium Development Goal 6 seeks to halt and begin
to reverse the spread of TB (along with HIV/AIDS and malaria)
by 2015, and the World Health Organization's Stop TB Strategy
aims to eliminate TB as a public health problem by 2050.
Below are the links to UN Chronicle articles
on TB, as well as links to related UN websites.
STORY
ON WORLD TB DAY 2007 EVENTS
LINKS TO RELATED RESOURCES AT THE
UNITED NATIONS
>> World Health Organization
Tuberculosis Page
>> Stop TB Partnership
>> UN
Millennium Project Report - Investing in Strategies to Reduce
the
Global
Incidence of TB
>> Press
Conference with Dr. Jorge Sampaio, Secretary-General’s
Special
Envoy to Stop Tuberculosis
These stories and more can be found at UN Chronicle Online
at www.un.org/chronicle.
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