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UN Millennium Development Library: Investing in Strategies to Reverse the Global Incidence of TB (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015,income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter,while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. As an independent advisory body directed by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, the UN Millennium Project submitted its recommendations to the UN Secretary General in January 2005. ,The core of the UN Millennium Project's work has been carried out by 10 thematic Task Forces comprising more than 250 experts from around the world, including scientists, development practitioners, parliamentarians, policymakers, and representatives from civil society, UN agencies, the World Bank, the IMF, and the private sector. This report lays out the recommendations of the UN Millennium Project Task Force 5 Working Group on TB. The Working Group's recommendations include expanding access to DOTS programs, implementing efforts against HIV-related TB and multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB, engaging all primary care providers and communities in high quality TB care, and developing new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines. These bold yet practical approaches will enable countries in every region of the world to halve the prevalence of TB by 2015.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136550270
• Artikelnr.: 38269235

Autorenporträt

The Millennium Project was commissioned by the UN Secretary-General and sponsored by the UN Development Group, which is chaired by the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. The report is an independent publication that reflects the views of the members of the Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and access to Essential Medicines, Working Group on TB, who contributed in their personal capacity.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Task force members
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Millennium Development Goals
Executive summary
Chapter
1 The emergency of tuberculosis
The DOTS strategy to control tuberculosis
The need for modern tools: diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines
The Millennium Development Goals
The UN Millennium Project Working Group on TB and the Stop TB Partnership
Recommendations
Chapter
2 The global tuberculosis epidemic and tuberculosis control
Global achievements
Overview of the tuberculosis epidemic
Overview of global tuberculosis control
Tuberculosis and HIV
Multidrug
resistant tuberculosis
Summary findings and conclusions
Chapter
3 Poverty, gender, children, and tuberculosis
Poverty fosters tuberculosis
Tuberculosis fosters poverty Tuberculosis and gender
Tuberculosis and children
Chapter
4 Moving forward to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals target for tuberculosis
Key intersections with other UN Millennium Project task forces
Solutions to constraints to improved tuberculosis control
Recommendation : ensure access for all to high
quality tuberculosis care
Recommendation : address the TB/HIV emergency now
Recommendation : engage all primary care providers in high
quality TB care
Recommendation : partner with communities to stop tuberculosis
Recommendation : stop the spread of multidrug
resistant tuberculosis
Recommendation : accelerate the development of critically needed new tools
Recommendation : support the Global Plan to Stop TB
Chapter
5 Financing needs
Why more resources are needed
Estimate of general health system requirements
Recommendations
Chapter
6 Meeting the target in UN Millennium Project pilot countries
UN Millennium Project pilot country case studies Meeting the tuberculosis target in Kenya
Meeting the tuberculosis target in other UN Millennium Project pilot countries: Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, and Ethiopia
Conclusion
Appendix 1 World Health Organization recommendations for implementing the DOTS strategy and its adaptations
Appendix 2 Meeting the Millennium Development Goals target in Kenya
Appendix 3 Tuberculosis and poverty in Cambodia
Appendix 4 Tuberculosis and poverty in the Dominican Republic
Appendix 5 Tuberculosis and poverty in Ethiopia
Appendix 6 Public
private partnerships for new tuberculosis diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines: Aeras, FIND, and the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development
Appendix 7 Summary of background paper on a two
month drug regimen
Appendix 8 Full list of recommendations from the UN Millennium Project Working Group on TB
Notes
References.