By: Babs Verblackt
21 November 2010
Louder voices and more demand for new tools against tuberculosis (TB) from people and communities are needed to push the fight against the airborne disease. These were the common demands of the participants of the 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health in Berlin, Germany last November 11-15.
“Governments don’t support TB research and development enough. We have to empower communities with more knowledge on TB issues to move governments to do something,” said Lucy Ghati
Ghati is a Community Representative to the Stop TB Partnership’s Working Group on New TB Vaccines and Program Officer of the National Empowerment Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS in Kenya.
According to Ghati that without being pushed governments won’t do anything. But there is a need for new commodities to address TB and HIV like new diagnostics and better drugs. But if one wants to have a long term solution, new vaccines will solve this pandemic illness.
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