CNS: Flashback: CNS Stop-TB Initiative in 2010

As we move towards the end of 2010, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you all Seasons Greetings and a happy, healthy and peaceful new year in 2011. We at CNS Stop-TB Initiative will like to thank our thousands of visitors for their support and participation on a range of issues around tuberculosis (TB) control and TB-HIV co-infection. Read more

The Stop-TB eForum in 2010

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The Stop-TB eForum was established by the Health and Development Networks (HDN) in early 2001 in lead up to the first Stop TB Partners' Forum to facilitate online information exchange and dialogue on a range of TB-related issues on a daily basis.

MoU

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In 2010, a memorandum of understanding between the Stop TB Partnership, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance was signed to continue supporting the Stop-TB eForum over coming years. We thank the Stop-TB members for speaking their world through the platform.

ISSUES in 2010 on Stop-TB eForum

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Reflecting back on the year, we are pleased to remind you of a few issues and topics that struck a particular cord with members, generating lively dialogue. Some of these issues include:

- TB in mobile populations

- Jailing ('confining') of TB patients

- The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015

- TB care and control in civil/ political unrest

- TB care and control in natural calamities

- Infection control in healthcare settings

- TB in children

- TB in people using injecting drugs

- TB/HIV collaborative activities in different countries

- Drug-resistant TB - both multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB)

- Role of affected communities in driving the responses to TB/HIV

- TB and poverty