New Global TB Plan & WHO TB Progress Report
Briefing with RESULTS
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Media briefing, March 23, 2004 (12:00 p.m. EST) to outline a new Global TB Plan, the latest data on the growing TB epidemic and the urgent need for new resources to expand treatment, tackle TB/HIV and MDR-TB and invest in new and better tools.
Dr. Maria C. Freire featured with Dr. Mario Raviglione (WHO), Dr. Helene Gayle (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) (Senate Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee), Dr. Anne Peterson (USAID) and Dr. Ken Castro (CDC)
World TB Day 2004
Briefing with Eli Lilly
Media briefing, March 24, 2004 (9:15 a.m. EST) to discuss the significance of drug-resistant tuberculosis: disease prevalence, treatment challenges, and new global partnerships.
Dr. Maria C. Freire featured with Dr. Gail Cassell (Eli Lilly) and Dr. Paul Farmer (Partners in Health)
"Running out of breath":
MSF Report on TB care in the 21st century
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launches new TB report, "Running out of breath? TB care in the 21st century," looking at some of the shortcomings of the global TB strategy and advocating for new TB diagnostic tests and drugs.
Drug-Resistant TB Report:
A Global Crisis
Media briefing, March 16, 2004 (9:30 a.m. EST) to present findings from the latest World Health Organization report on multi-drug-resistant strains in tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
Dr. Maria C. Freire featured with Dr. Jack Chow (WHO), Representative Sherrod Brown, (Ohio's 13th District (D-OH)), Dr. Ken Castro (CDC) and Dr. Anne Peterson (USAID)
World TB Day 2004:
Statement from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/ National Institutes of Health
Statement from Christine F. Sizemore, Ph.D., and Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/ National Institutes of Health