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Uncorrected transcript of oral evidence on the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
HOUSE OF COMMONS, ORAL EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE ON THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA (TUESDAY 17 APRIL 2012)

Oral evidence from:
- Gabriel Jarmillo and Richard Manning(Global Fund)
- Alan Court (Roll Back Malaria Partnership), Mike Podmore (AIDS Consortium), Aaron Oxley (RESULTS UK) and Bernard Rivers (Aidspan)
- Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Secretary of State for International Development
  
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmintdev/uc1932-i/uc193201.htm
 
Stop TB in my lifetime - World TB Day 2012 - Andrew George MP

andrewgeorgeMP World Tuberculosis (TB) Day (24th March) provides the perfect opportunity to reflect on progress we have made towards addressing this disease of poverty and also to shine a spotlight on the challenges that we still face. 

Over the last six years we have witnessed significant progress in efforts to tackle TB. The number of people infected with active forms of TB and dying from the disease has decreased in the UK and globally and there has been a renewed focus on R&D into new vaccines, drugs and diagnostics to tackle the disease.

Despite this progress TB continues to kill 3800 people every day. That is almost 3 people every minute for a disease that can be treated with a course of antibiotics. It has taken a significant amount of time and investment to make progress, but we have begun to turn the corner.

A new diagnostic test reducing the time it takes to diagnose TB from up to 6 weeks to 90 minutes is being rolled out in developing countries and is a significant breakthrough. A new TB vaccine is currently in the advance stages of development and if the trials are successful it could be the first TB vaccine brought to market since the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine over 80 years ago.
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Key Facts

TB is preventable and curable yet:

1.4 million people died from TB in 2010.

 

There were 8.8 million new TB cases worldwide in 2010.

There were an estimated 650,000 cases of multi drug-resistant TB in 2010.

8, 483 cases of TB were reported in the UK in 2010.

1 in 10 people infected with TB will become sick with active TB in their lifetime.

TB is a leading killer of people infected with HIV.

 sources: World Health Organisation (WHO) and UK Health Protection Agency (HPA)













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