Investing in strategies to reverse the global incidence of TB /

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Author / Creator:Broekmans, Jaap.
Imprint:London ; Sterling, Va. : Earthscan : UN Millennium Project, Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Essential Medicines, Working Group on TB, 2005.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11381928
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Other authors / contributors:Caines, Karen.
Paluzzi, Joan E.
UN Millennium Project. Working Group on TB.
ISBN:9781849773546
1849773548
1423708741
9781423708742
9781844072231
1844072231
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:"This report lays out the recommendations of the UN Millennium Project Working Group on TB. The working group's recommendations include expanding access to DOTS programs, implementing efforts against HIV-related TB and multidrug-resistant TB, engaging all primary care providers and communities in high quality TB care, and developing new diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines. These bold yet practical approaches will enable countries in every region of the world to halve the prevalence of TB by 2015"--Jacket.
The Millennium Development Goals adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015--income poverty hunger disease exclusion lack of infrastructure and shelter-while promoting gender equality education health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure just and prosperous world for all. The UN Millennium Pro.
Other form:Print version: Broekmans, Jaap. Investing in strategies to reverse the global incidence of TB. London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2007 9781844072231