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Extract from Trustees' Report 2008-09:
Income and Expenditure Summary 2008-09 OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE
TB is one of the world’s biggest killer diseases. Every year nearly two million people die from this deadly disease, despite it being easy and cheap to cure. In 2003 The World Health Organization declared TB a 'global emergency' and in the same year Target TB was launched as a direct response.
Goals and objectives of Target TB
The eradication of TB is a long-term aim and Target TB sees its role within this great effort as a holistic one - through both clinical and socio-economic paths - to address the impact of the disease. Target TB works with overseas partners in Africa and Asia to:
· Improve opportunities for people with TB to access treatment · Reduce the suffering of TB patients and their families caused by poverty · Reduce the stigma associated with TB · Address the problems caused by the co-existence of TB and HIV/AIDS
How Target TB makes a difference
Target TB works with partner organisations in Africa and Asia, helping to develop and support TB programmes which meet the needs of local people. Target TB always aims to adhere to the World Health Organization's standard treatment method for TB, Directly Observed Therapy Short-course or DOTS, enshrined in the national TB Control Programmes of the countries we work in.
Target TB focuses on areas where health facilities are poorly developed and government services struggle to cope with demand. We aim to establish TB services which can be fully integrated into government health services. All of our overseas partners work in line with their National TB Programmes to ensure future sustainability.
Target TB also encourages learning and sharing opportunities, supporting partners to attend meetings and conferences at national and international level through which they can disseminate information about their work.
Target TB’s work is aligned with the 2nd Global Plan to Stop TB (2006 – 2015), which sets out the actions and resources needed to tackle TB, including meeting the targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals (MDG6): To have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
TB on the world stage
The TB/HIV co-epidemic and drug resistant TB continue to be serious challenges to achieving TB control goals. TB accounts for up to 1/3 of AIDS deaths worldwide, making it the leading cause of death among people with HIV. The dual epidemics are having a devastating impact, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa where TB accounts for over 80% of AIDS-related deaths. The emergence of drug-resistant strains of TB is also a grave threat - drug-resistance can develop in people with TB who stop or interrupt their treatment. This is much more costly and difficult to treat.
Alongside these two major issues, other factors challenge the global fight to control TB, not least the current global recession. Lack of funding to meet global TB control needs is a major threat and jeopardising many of the achievements already made. Economic crisis exacerbates many of the factors which increase vulnerability to TB, such as poverty and poor nutrition. Restricting resources to TB programmes is also likely to fuel an increase in drug-resistant strains. Ineffective vaccines, outdated diagnostic tools and treatment, and poorly resourced National TB Programmes, all contribute to a situation whereby we still have a long way to go to meet the targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals and Global Plan to Stop TB by 2015: to halt and reverse the spread of TB. The World Bank has acknowledged that investing in TB programmes delivers benefits that equal ten times the costs of treatment.
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