PHA-Exch> World TB Day: Updated TB Data on GlobalHealthFacts.org

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Marcy Bloom marcybloom at comcast.net


New  <http://www.globalhealthfacts.org/topic.jsp?i=12> TB Data Available:

TB Cases, People Living with TB, TB Deaths, TB and HIV Coinfection data and
more available by country.
http://www.globalhealthfacts.org

Thursday, March 20, 2008

World TB Day is March 24: Updated TB Data on GlobalHealthFacts.org

The global burden of tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health
challenge with more than 9 million new TB cases and close to 1.7 million
deaths from TB worldwide in 2006, according to the newest TB report from the
World Health Organization (WHO) released on March 17, 2008. Although the TB
incidence rate has been falling slowly since 2003 and global TB prevalence
and death rates declined between 2005 and 2006, drug-resistant TB, HIV/AIDS
and other obstacles continue to complicate efforts to control the TB
epidemic.

As a provider of easy-to-access and up-to-date information on global health
conditions, the Kaiser Family Foundation, through its two global health
websites, GlobalHealthReporting.org http://www.GlobalHealthReporting.org
and GlobalHealthFacts.org http://www.GlobalHealthFacts.org , features
updated TB information from the 2008 WHO report, "Global
Tuberculosis Control: Surveillance, Planning and Financing
http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2008/en/index.html," as
well as other sources. GlobalHealthFacts.org has been updated with new
country-level TB data http://www.globalhealthfacts.org/topic.jsp?i=12  across
18 indicators, including data on TB and HIV coinfection. The data are
displayed in tables, charts, and color-coded maps and can be downloaded for
custom analyses.

In addition, GlobalHealthReporting.org provides an array of resources
including daily news
http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/news.asp?id=826summaries about TB
as well as updated
http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/tb.asp background information,
facts-at-a-glace http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/tb.asp?id=68  and
frequently  asked questions
http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/tb.asp?id=69 about the disease. The
site highlights new reports and resources for World TB Day, and, on March
25, will feature an archived
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=2518webcast
of a World TB Day roundtable discussion featuring some of the
world's leading TB experts.

Organizations are encouraged to link to GlobalHealthFacts.org. Linking
information, including an interactive map that other websites are free to
use, can be found online http://www.globalhealthfacts.org/linktous.jsp
Additionally, a free news headline
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/static/about_content_syndication.cfmsyndication
service and RSS feeds are available for the
GlobalHealthReporting.org TB/Malaria Report.
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