end with tuberculosis is in our hands
nearly 1.5 million people die every year because of him, despite being a curable disease.
For World Health, the current response addresses tuberculosis from a perspective outdated while the challenges posed by this disease require an innovative approach, based on r & d and community participation.
Spain, March 2012.- in the World TB Day, the World Health Organization claims “a world without tuberculosis (TB)” during the course of our lives, as Stop TB Partnership proposed in its slogan for this date. But to make this possible it is necessary to bring the answer beyond, reorient. Three years to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is necessary that work in TB is as ambitious as targets. It is not enough just to imagine horizons, there to do everything possible to achieve them.
This means more and better efforts from Governments and institutions. It means a response to TB to include research and development (r & d) and community involvement in the process, are essential if you want to have new health tools effective and accessible. The current response addresses TB outdated perspective and the challenges require an innovative approach, as evidenced by the same burden on global health that has the disease. For example, it is not enough to investigate a drug in separate way, as they do now. It is necessary that the research process address the treatment of full mode.
Thus, the r & d will provide these new treatment regimens effective against all strains of TB, as well as other such important challenges such as achieving effective Pediatric formulations for TB in children; new diagnostic methods that can be used in all countries, whatever their circumstances; new vaccines; and an approach to fully address TB-HIV co-infection, which today remains lethal.
Spanish cooperation policies currently include part of this approach through its support to several partnerships developers of products (PDP) in the field of r & d in HIV / AIDS and malaria, a model of innovative r & d that responds to the real needs of global health. Improving the health of developing countries requires also extend this support to the response in TB. Thus, from planet health, explained, “will continue to work to ensure that Spain of their support for the response in TB in their policies of cooperation, today and every day until that TB will definitely disappear.” We know that eliminating tuberculosis is possible. “It is in all our hands do so.”
On the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day last March 24, the World Health Organization has created a special web page with updated data, articles, information and views on the pandemic. In addition, he has recorded a video to claim the need to continue working in the response to TB.
