NEWS & EVENTS
TB Action Group
TB ACTION Group is a National organization whose main objective is to enhance collaboration between TB patients, civil society, organizations, Government agencies, and research institutions for the purpose of controlling TB, TBHIV, MDRTB and XDR TB, and to help in the care and support of those infected with or affected by Tuberculosis.
TB ACTION Group is a registered partner of the Stop TB Partnership.
Lucy Chesire - TB Advocate
Lucy Chesire is a clinical nutritionist from Eldoret, Kenya and a key advocate on HIV-TB. Lucy is a leading global advocate for an accelerated response to the co-epidemic. The main message of Lucy's advocacy is simple – it is useless to tackle HIV and AIDS without also addressing TB as well.
In 2009 at the opening ceremony of the IUATLD conference in Mexico, Lucy was presented the Stop TB Partnership and Kochon Foundation ‘Kochon prize’ for her extraordinary commitment to raising awareness of TB internationally
Health MDG's
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that all 191 UN member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. The United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000 commits world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. The MDGs are derived from this Declaration, and all have specific targets and indicators. MDG 6 aims to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases.