APPG on Global Turbeculosis

“A TB patient receives their treatment”. Photo provided by Target TB
“Sheela Devi was found by an AKS Hope volunteer - part of a fully trained network that go out into communities to find people with TB symptoms. Sheela is now cured and happy to be working again. She told us, ‘I praise God that I am still here to look after my children’. Photo provided by Target TB”
“APPG Chair Andrew George MP and Vice-Chair Virendra Sharma MP (second and third from the left) with MP’s from Kenya’s Health Committee during a recent delegation”
“Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, Stephen O’Brien MP address the APPG on Global TB”

APPG on Global Turbeculosis

Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria 10 year anniversary

To mark the ten year anniversary of the Global Fund a video with some of its best known supporters including Bill Gates, Bono, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair was released recently. The Fund saves an estimated 100 thousand lives every month.

During these ten years: more than 3 million people gained access to AIDS treatment; over nine million people treated for TB, and 230 million insecticide-treated bed nets distributed to prevent malaria in the developing world.