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14/10/2024

Let us be the community spaces where TB Prevention is part of the better life outcomes strategic plan!

07/10/2024

Dr. Tom R. M.M. invites You To Sign The Petition Please

I have dedicated 30 years of my life to medical and health activism. Of these 20 have been in the community organizing, Community Health, TB/HIV/Hepatitis/Ebola/COVID-19/Malaria Prevention and research work. I have worked with so many grassroot communities and I do know so well we can have 1,000 signatures by the end of the week. I am calling on you please to sign this petition to have Tuberculosis get the deserved allocation of funds like HIV and Malaria are allocated. Imagine this! Tuberculosis is getting less allocation yet it kills more people. Okay, get your name appended on this petition please.

https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/us_government_global_fund_us_congress_us_senate_au_join_us_to_demand_that_global_fund_funding_follows_data_and_science_and_not_politics/?coVqcub&utm_source=sharetools&utm_medium=copy&utm_campaign=petition-1736906-join_us_to_demand_that_global_fund_funding_follows_data_and_science_and_not_politics&utm_term=coVqcub%2Ben

10/12/2023

Meet our partners in the TB Prevention and Elimination movement building effort:

Joyful Hope Resource Platform Center (JHRPC), promoting TB testing among Young refugees, asylum Seekers, Displaced Persons and Host Communities 28th November-9th December 2023

03/12/2023

Bring to the communities, messages of hope.
Tell them they too can contribute to a TB free world.

29/11/2023

Join us for a special Webinar on promoting positive action to improve health and wellbeing for men affected by TB
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (Union) Working Group on Gender Equity in TB will host a webinar promoting positive action to improve health and wellbeing for men affected by TB. The webinar is linked to International Men’s Day marked in November each year, that puts the spotlight on key issues affecting men. Diverse speakers will come together to discuss ways forward to address the determinants, barriers, and impacts that TB has on affected men, their families, and their communities. This event will advocate for a gender responsive approach as we move towards translating the commitments made at the United Nations High Level Meeting on TB into rapid action.
This webinar aims to:
·To bring together TB-affected communities and their coalitions, women’s and men’s groups, CBOs, NGOs, organizations & experts working on women’s and men’s health, policymakers, and program implementers, to promote a positive conversation around developing solutions for engaging men affected by TB in the care that they need.
·To understand the role gender plays as a social determinant of TB and the impact of the disease on mental health.
·To learn from successful examples of engaging men from other diseases/sectors/responses on how to harness the power of celebrities and people in positions of power to showcase their vulnerability to TB and to build systems of support for others with less power / privilege.
Background
Gender is one of the important social determinants of health and should be a critical component of strategies to end the TB epidemic. Globally, an estimated 10.6 million people fell ill with TB in 2022, with men accounting for 58% of those affected. Prevalence surveys indicate even greater disparity in underlying burden of disease. Key TB determinants, including diabetes, harmful alcohol consumption, and to***co smoking, disproportionately affect men. Men’s disadvantage in TB extends to diagnostic and treatment pathways where, relative to women, men have more limited access to timely diagnosis and treatment and are at higher risk of treatment failure and death. Most new infections among men, women, and children are likely attributable to contact with men, meaning that men’s excess burden of disease and disadvantages in prevention and care have population-wide implications.

24/11/2023

Join Us Please!

Refugee-led CBOs and Grassroots-based CBOs/CSOs can develop Stop TB Advocacy materials using simple, accessible and appropriate resources. It improves engagement and participation as well create opportunities to translate the end to TB strategies at the local level. Join our network of CBOs creating spaces dedicated to ending TB BY 2030.

24/11/2023

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence

24/11/2023

Tuberculosis (TB) And Housing
1 Day To 16 Days Of Activism Against Gender Based Violence
Tuberculosis (TB) is related to poor living environment.
1. Housing Stability breaks TB disease progression cycle
There is a relationship between TB treatment outcome and housing characteristics which is a reflection of one's socio-economic standing.
2. Overcrowding leads to TB disease risk
High levels of overcrowded housing, degree of isolation, and rates of tuberculosis (TB). Overcrowded housing conditions increase exposure of susceptible people to infectious respiratory disease, and increases the probability of TB transmission.
3. Housing stability and food security facilitate healing
A combination of malnutrition, confinement on crowded reservations with poor sanitation, and lack of immunity to the TB bacillus contributed substantially to this epidemic
4. Housing patterns determine TB disease vulnerability
There is an association between community housing density, isolation and the incidence and occurrence of TB.
5. Condition of Housing
The increasing incidence of TB can be caused by several factors such as housing condition, structure, washrooms, shuttering, ventilation and food preparation habits.
and housing conditions
6. Housing equity and built communities
Progress in tuberculosis control in the low- and middle-income world will require not only investment in strengthening tuberculosis control programmes, new diagnostics, and modern treatment but also action on the social determinants of tuberculosis disease.
7. Multi-sectoral Approaches to TB disease Prevention
Interventions from outside the health sector—specifically, in social protection and urban planning—have the potential to strengthen tuberculosis control..
8. Moving Beyond TB Prevention To Ending TB By 2030
Recognize the role of Public-Private Mix as an emerging shift within the TB sector toward recognizing the importance of social and economic development policies and interventions in supporting the end to TB disease activities.
9. Ensure DOTS
a. Political commitment with increased and sustained financing,
b. Case detection through quality-assured bacteriology,
c. Standardized treatment with supervision and patient support,
d. An effective drug supply and management system, and
e. Monitoring and evaluation system and impact measurement.
10. The 6 Components of the Stop TB Strategy
1. Pursue high-quality DOTS expansion and enhancement.
2. Address TB and HIV, multidrug-resistant TB, and the needs of poor and vulnerable populations.
3. Contribute to health system strengthening based on primary health care.
4. Engage all care providers.
5. Empower people with TB and communities through partnership.
6. Enable and promote research.

23/11/2023

Tuberculosis (TB) Prevention and Epidemiology Among the Seniors/Elderly
2 Days To 16 Days Of Activism Against Gender Based Violence

TB Survivor Best Outcome Methodologies

1. Complete the Medication
2. Care for your liver
3. Get in the habit of testing, screening and diagnosis
4. Awareness Raising and Reassurance
5. Balanced Diet
6. Gender Inequality and TB Vulnerability
7. Addressing Complications
8. TB Survivor Self-help groups
9. Protection Against other illnesses
10. Scaling best practices

22/11/2023

Tuberculosis (TB) Prevention and Epidemiology Among the Seniors/Elderly
3 Days To 16 Days Of Activism Against Gender Based Violence

1. Symptoms of active TB are nonspecific and less pronounced in the elderly
2. Aging is natural, inevitable process, presents new challenges to health care
3. Aging leads to a gradual decrease in physical and mental disabilities
4. Aging increases risk of disease
5. Recognising frailty to prevent loss of independence
6. Aging leads to poorer tolerance of TB drugs
7. Adherence to antituberculosis treatment improves outcome of treatment
8. TB among the elderly is a public health problem in terms of diagnosis and treatment
9. Risk of progression to TB disease is associated with HIV infection
10. TB is preventable, curable and treatable in all age groups

21/11/2023

Tuberculosis (TB) and Antimicrobial Resistance

4 Days To 16 Days Of Activism Against Gender Based Violence

World AMR Awareness Week (Nov. 18-24) theme: Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together, calling for collective action to preserve antimicrobial effectiveness. 🤝 Join the global effort against !
1. Right Drug
2. Right Dose
3. De-escalation to pathogen directed therapy
4. Right Duration of therapy.

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