<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>><br>crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
<br></span>
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Global Tuberculosis Control, Epidemiology, Strategy, Financing<br>
<br></span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WHO Report 2009 - WHO/HTM/TB/2009.411</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="PT-BR" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Websiste: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2009/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2009/en/index.html</span></font></a> </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“…..WHO's report on Global TB Control compiles data from over 200 countries and territories each year, monitoring the scale and direction of TB epidemics, implementation and impact of the Stop TB Strategy, and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The report presents WHO’s latest assessment of the epidemiological burden of TB (numbers of cases and deaths), as well as progress towards the 2015 targets for global TB control that have been established within the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It also includes a thorough analysis of implementation and financing of the WHO’s Stop TB Strategy and the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Plan to Stop TB, since in combination these have set out how TB control needs to be implemented and funded to achieve the 2015 targets. </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The report gives particular attention to the period 2006–2009, but selected epidemiological, implementation and financial data are presented for previous years as well. This includes epidemiological data back to 1990 and financial data back to 2002.</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bringing together data reported by 196 out of 212 countries and territories in 2008, as well as data collected from these countries and territories in previous years, Global tuberculosis control 2009 is the definitive source of information about the national and international response to the worldwide TB epidemic….”</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Key points</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The main messages from the report, summarized in 28 key points, can be read online in all 6 UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).<br>
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/key_points_ar.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Arabic [pdf 105kb]</span></font></a> <br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/key_points_zh.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Chinese [pdf 268kb]</span></font></a> <br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/key_points_en.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">English [pdf 69kb]</span></font></a> <br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/key_points_fr.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">French [pdf 89kb]</span></font></a> <br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/key_points_ru.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Russian [pdf 179kb]</span></font></a> <br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/key_points_es.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Spanish [pdf 135kb]</span></font></a></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><span><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">THE REPORT</span></font></b></span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/full_report.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full report - LARGE DOCUMENT [pdf 7.28Mb]</span></font></a> <br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/report_without_annexes.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Report without annexes [pdf 1.61Mb]</span></font></a> <br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/introduction.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Introduction [pdf 50kb]</span></font></a> <br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/chapter1.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Chapter 1: Epidemiology [pdf 633kb]</span></font></a> <br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/chapter2.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Chapter 2: Strategy [pdf 481kb]</span></font></a> <br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/chapter3.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Chapter 3: Financing [pdf 301kb]</span></font></a> <br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/conclusions.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Conclusions [pdf 41kb]</span></font></a></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><span><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ANNEXES</span></font></b></span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/annex_1/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Annex 1: Profiles of high burden countries</span></font></a> <br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/annex_2_methods/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Annex 2: Methods</span></font></a> <br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/annex_3/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Annex 3: The Stop TB Strategy, case reports, tretment outcomes and estimates of TB burden </span></font></a><br>
<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/annex4.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Annex 4: Surveys of tuberculosis disease and availability of death registration data at WHO, by country and year [pdf 235kb]</span></font></a></span></font></p>

<h3 style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SLIDES</span></font></b></h3>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/slideset.ppt" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Slide set (full) [ppt 12.21Mb]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/slideset_ch1.ppt" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Slide set - Chapter 1 [ppt 5.80Mb]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/slideset_ch2.ppt" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy"><br>
Slide set - Chapter 2 [ppt 3.10Mb]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/2009/pdf/slideset_ch3.ppt" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Slide set - Chapter 3 [ppt 4.39Mb]</span></font></a></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p></div></div></div></div>