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In honour of World TB Day this year, Target TB, together with the UK Coalition to Stop TB, hosted a photography
exhibition in Westminster: ‘Hope – stories from India’.
India has the highest incidence of infectious TB in the world. Each year, around 1.8 million
new cases emerge, equating to 1,000 men, women and children losing their lives to TB
every single day. In October 2009, Sophie Davies, Head of Fundraising, Marketing and Communications
for Target TB, travelled to north west India with professional photographer David Brunetti to document
the impact of India’s TB problem on some of the country’s most marginalised communities.
This exhibition displayed some of the most informative and poignant images in order to raise
awareness of, and advocate for, TB control in India.
The event also launched the UK Coalition’s 2010 campaign ‘TB: A disease of the past? Action Now!’
which combined a series of activities to make a high impact statement to the UK Government about
the need and importance of prioritising TB on the domestic and global health agenda. The Coalition
also released its TB manifesto ‘TB Election Asks’ with the foreword supported and signed by Archbishop
Desmond Tutu. With the elections coming up, it’s hoped that this will help to generate the political will
of the UK Government to take immediate action on TB.
Now that World TB Day has passed this year, the ‘Hope – stories from India’ exhibition will move to the Infinity Cafe on Gardner Street in the north Laine of Brighton and will be open to all. The images will be on display every day from 1st to 23rd May and were produced with the generous sponsorship of the following local companies: Mazars LLP, Charles Stanley & Co Ltd, South East Mailing and
Fulfilment, Red Rooster Digital Design and Chilli Pickle.
Target TB believes that 2010 is a critical year to demonstrate the UK’s commitment to global health –
there are just five years to go to meet the health Millennium Development Goals. At current levels of
funding and progress, the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on TB will not be met.
The UK government can play a central role in ensuring that it is.On World TB Day, 24 March 2010 Clare Shaw,
Target TB Programme Officer and Kibble Ngalauka, (pictured above) Project Manager of our partner Sue Ryder
in Malawi, delivered a list of ‘TB asks’ to 10 Downing Street - asking the UK Government to make TB a priority
on the UK’s domestic and global health agendas.Check out the UK Coalition's website (link above) to see the full
manifesto from 24th March onwards.
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