MSF responds to 2017 WHO Global TB Report
“Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Stop TB Partnership’s Out of Step report* has found that, across the board, countries with the highest burden of TB fall far short when it comes to scaling up the best practices and tools recommended by the World Health Organization to finally start beating back this epidemic.”
“Next month in Moscow, the world’s health ministers will gather for the first-ever Global Ministerial Conference on Ending TB. In September 2018, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, world leaders will have the chance to attend the UN High-Level Meeting on TB – also the first meeting of its kind. Could it be that TB is finally starting to get the global attention it deserves? We need to see serious commitment to start turning the tide on TB. High-burden countries need to step up to the plate and increase access to TB diagnosis and treatment, including newer treatments for DR-TB, and governments must prioritise efforts to develop new TB treatment regimens that work against all forms of TB. What are we waiting for?”
Dr Isaac Chikwanha, Medical Advisor for TB, HIV and Hepatitis C, MSF Access Campaign