[afro-nets] World TB Day: Updated TB Data on GlobalHealthFacts.org

["Marcy Bloom" <marcybloom@comcast.net>]

Cross-posted from: GlobalHealthReporting.org 

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=826 summaries 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=2518 webcast 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.cfm syndication service and RSS feeds are available for the GlobalHealthReporting.org TB/Malaria Report.

GlobalHealthReporting.org <http://www.globalhealthreporting.org>  is a project operated by the Kaiser Family Foundation <http://www.kff.org>  with major support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 

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Marcy Bloom
mailto:marcybloom@comcast.net