APPG on Global Tuberculosis

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    “A TB patient receives their treatment”. Photo provided by Target TB
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    “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”
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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.





 

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Key Facts

TB is curable and preventable, yet:

1.7 million people died from TB in 2009.

 

There were 9.4 million new TB cases worldwide in 2009.

There were 440,000 cases of multi drug-resistant TB in 2008.

9,040 cases of TB were reported in the UK 2009.

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 and UK Health Protection Agency

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