India’s Search For TB Drug Feaured In BBC Health Check
How will Obama’s health reforms change the health of America? Why counting the dead and finding out why people die improves public helath. And India’s search for a TB drug.
Singapore To Improve Detection And Treatment Of Tuberculosis
Gov Monitor
An investment of S$3 million is being pumped into tuberculosis (TB) research by A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), bioindustrial group Institut Mérieux and its in vitro diagnostics company bioMérieux.
TB cases down in India
Sify News
The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) is showing a declining trend as a result of the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP), parliament was told Friday.
Fears over TB treatment funding cuts in London
BBC News
"Vulnerable" people may be put at risk because funding for London's mobile tuberculosis detection unit is to end, it is claimed.
Vienna 2010:TB screening - more talk, no action
http://healthdev.net
This week the world is converging in Vienna Austria for the 18th International AIDS conference. More pledges, promises and declarations will be made to add to others that have been made previously without any or very minimal implementation if any.
Health watchdogs sound alarm over TB/HIV deaths
Associated Free Press
Two global health agencies joined forces on Thursday in a campaign aimed at averting 200,000 deaths each year by co-infection from tuberculosis and the AIDS virus.
The World Bank Must Invest In Aid More Wisely
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/11/world-bank-invest-aid-more-wisely
The UK government announced that multilateral development agencies such as the World Bank will need to show results in order to continue receiving UK taxpayer support. Andrew Mitchell, the UK secretary of state for international development, has stated his aim to direct funds to agencies with "a proven track record of delivering results."
A New Report Slams the World Bank’s Support of Health Systems for Insufficient Focus on Result
http://blogs.cgdev.org/
The Washington-based NGO ACTION has just released a report on the effectiveness of the World Bank's preeminent instrument for strengthening health sectors in poor countries: the Sector Wide Approach or SWAp. Through a SWAp the World Bank and other donors collectively provide broad financial support to a country's health sector, in order to foster country ownership and to coordinate all the many parts of the health sector toward improving the population's health status.
World Bank Misses the Boat on Tuberculosis in Africa
http://globalpoverty.change.org/
What happens when you pour billions of dollars in funding into an idealistic-sounding (if dubiously implemented) program for 13 years, but fail to invest evaluating it?
Well, sooner or later, a group like ACTION (Advocacy to Control Tuberculosis Internationally) comes along and calls you out on it. That's exactly what's happening today, with the release of a new report examining how the World Bank and its partners have failed to improve health through their use of sector-wide approaches.
