Un Millennium Development Library: Investing in Strategies to Reverse the Global Incidence of Tb

ISBN-13: 9781844072231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 172 str.

Jaap Broekmans; Karen Caines; Joan E. Paluzzi

Opis

Nearly 2 million people die each year from TB. However, real progress has been made over the last decade in implementing DOTS - an effective intervention against TB. Investing in Strategies to Reverse the Global Incidence of TB describes the features of DOTS and offers a guide to implementing the system and achieving a universal standard of care based on proper diagnosis, treatment and reporting. Other recommendations include efforts against HIV-related TB and multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB, engaging all care providers and communities in high quality care and developing new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.