Comments on: Images of Deadly TB Remind Congress of Need to Fund Global Health http://www.one.org/blog/2009/06/12/images-of-deadly-tb-remind-congress-of-need-to-fund-global-health/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Leslie Weinberg http://www.one.org/blog/2009/06/12/images-of-deadly-tb-remind-congress-of-need-to-fund-global-health/#comment-563407 Leslie Weinberg Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:04:15 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=6142#comment-563407 As long as XDR Tuberculosis is caught by people around the world, it will threaten the health of others. People who are infected may travel and could infect those within or even in other countries. More must be done to prevent and treat XDR TB, especially for those with HIV/AIDS. As long as XDR Tuberculosis is caught by people around the world, it will threaten the health of others. People who are infected may travel and could infect those within or even in other countries. More must be done to prevent and treat XDR TB, especially for those with HIV/AIDS.

]]> By: Ned Hamson http://www.one.org/blog/2009/06/12/images-of-deadly-tb-remind-congress-of-need-to-fund-global-health/#comment-563400 Ned Hamson Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:05:14 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=6142#comment-563400 It is nothing short of amazing, how familiar these photos should be if Americans were not so short sighted and given to think anything that happened ten years ago, is of no importance. My grandmother ( I am now 64 years old) died from complications of TB while giving birth to her second child in 1914. My mother lost her mother when she was four to TB - the disease that had been a scourge for mankind since human beings had gathered into cities. TB was only finally "controlled" in the US during the late 1940s and early 1950s. By the 1960s the forgetting process set in and now TB with resistance to standard drugs is again marching across the globe. Last year there were many cases noted at colleges and universities that were brought to the campuses by students returning from a visit to their home overseas or by employees who had vacationed in areas striken by the new forms of TB. ONE is about all of us not just some of us. Thanks to God those involved are involved! It is nothing short of amazing, how familiar these photos should be if Americans were not so short sighted and given to think anything that happened ten years ago, is of no importance.

My grandmother ( I am now 64 years old) died from complications of TB while giving birth to her second child in 1914. My mother lost her mother when she was four to TB – the disease that had been a scourge for mankind since human beings had gathered into cities.

TB was only finally “controlled” in the US during the late 1940s and early 1950s. By the 1960s the forgetting process set in and now TB with resistance to standard drugs is again marching across the globe.

Last year there were many cases noted at colleges and universities that were brought to the campuses by students returning from a visit to their home overseas or by employees who had vacationed in areas striken by the new forms of TB.

ONE is about all of us not just some of us. Thanks to God those involved are involved!

]]> By: Debra Goldenberg http://www.one.org/blog/2009/06/12/images-of-deadly-tb-remind-congress-of-need-to-fund-global-health/#comment-563399 Debra Goldenberg Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:00:18 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=6142#comment-563399 Steve, are you doing your lobbying at the RESULTS conference? If so, see you there! Steve, are you doing your lobbying at the RESULTS conference? If so, see you there!

]]> By: Debbie K http://www.one.org/blog/2009/06/12/images-of-deadly-tb-remind-congress-of-need-to-fund-global-health/#comment-563395 Debbie K Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:16:28 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=6142#comment-563395 Thanks David for mentioning Thembi in the ONE Blog. Those who did not know of her struggle to LIVE POSITIVELY with HIV/AIDS simply missed knowing about a courageous woman. I hope that we'll get an action alert on those funding battles which will be fought next week in Congress & of what we can do to help at our local levels. All the Best, debbie www.mpwn-uganda.org Thanks David for mentioning Thembi in the ONE Blog. Those who did not know of her struggle to LIVE POSITIVELY with HIV/AIDS simply missed knowing about a courageous woman.

I hope that we’ll get an action alert on those funding battles which will be fought next week in Congress & of what we can do to help at our local levels.

All the Best, debbie
http://www.mpwn-uganda.org

]]> By: Steve Valk http://www.one.org/blog/2009/06/12/images-of-deadly-tb-remind-congress-of-need-to-fund-global-health/#comment-563380 Steve Valk Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:55:01 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=6142#comment-563380 The photos in Nachtwey's exhibit are very moving. We should definitely provide more funding for TB efforts and for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. I'll be going up to Washington with several folks from Atlanta next week to lobby our members of Congress to provide that funding, The photos in Nachtwey’s exhibit are very moving. We should definitely provide more funding for TB efforts and for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. I’ll be going up to Washington with several folks from Atlanta next week to lobby our members of Congress to provide that funding,

]]> By: David Bryden http://www.one.org/blog/2009/06/12/images-of-deadly-tb-remind-congress-of-need-to-fund-global-health/#comment-563375 David Bryden Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:58:25 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=6142#comment-563375 Thembi Ngubane just died of drug resistant TB. Have a look at her courageous diary -- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105017959 Next week Rep. Nita Lowey and other members of the House will make some crucial decisions about TB and HIV funding, and action on this is urgent! Thembi Ngubane just died of drug resistant TB. Have a look at her courageous diary —

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105017959

Next week Rep. Nita Lowey and other members of the House will make some crucial decisions about TB and HIV funding, and action on this is urgent!

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