China's Choices
Choices that will have major global implications
There are no answers, just choices, this is one place to follow the choices that China makes. This nation of 1.3 billion people is faced with the daunting task of building on its 30 years of unprecedented economic development without further damage to its environment. How is it going to do this and how is that effort going to impact the rest of the world? ...learn more
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The Stop TB Partnership was established in 2000 to realize the goal of eliminating TB as a public health problem and, ultimately, to obtain a world free of TB. It comprises a network of international organizations, countries, donors from the public and private sectors, governmental and nongovernmental organizations and individuals that have expressed an interest in working together to achieve this goal.
Vision
Our vision is a TB-free world: the first children born this millennium will see TB eliminated in their lifetime.
Stop TB is a global movement to accelerate social and political action to stop the unnecessary spread of TB around the world.
Targets
* By 2005: 70% of people with infectious TB will be diagnosed and 85% of them cured.
* By 2015: the global burden of TB disease (deaths and prevalence) will be reduced by 50% relative to 1990 levels.
* By 2050: The global incidence of TB disease will be less than 1 per million population. (Elimination of TB as a global public health problem.)
Mission
* To ensure that every TB patient has access to effective diagnosis, treatment and cure.
* To stop transmission of TB.
* To reduce the inequitable social and economic toll of TB.
* To develop and implement new preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic tools and strategies to stop TB.
In order to achieve our mission and make our vision a reality, the Stop TB Partnership has set the following goals:
* Promote wider and wiser use of existing strategies to interrupt TB transmission by:
o increasing access to accurate diagnosis and effective treatments by accelerating DOTS implementation to achieve the global targets for TB control; and
o increasing the availability, affordability and quality of anti-TB drugs.
* " Derive strategies to address the challenges posed by emerging threats by:
o adapting DOTS to prevent and manage MDR-TB, and to reduce the impact of HIV-related TB.
* Accelerate elimination of TB, by:
o promoting research and development for new TB drugs, diagnostics and vaccines; and
o promoting adoption of new and improved tools by ensuring appropriate use, access and affordability.
Vision
Our vision is a TB-free world: the first children born this millennium will see TB eliminated in their lifetime.
Stop TB is a global movement to accelerate social and political action to stop the unnecessary spread of TB around the world.
Targets
* By 2005: 70% of people with infectious TB will be diagnosed and 85% of them cured.
* By 2015: the global burden of TB disease (deaths and prevalence) will be reduced by 50% relative to 1990 levels.
* By 2050: The global incidence of TB disease will be less than 1 per million population. (Elimination of TB as a global public health problem.)
Mission
* To ensure that every TB patient has access to effective diagnosis, treatment and cure.
* To stop transmission of TB.
* To reduce the inequitable social and economic toll of TB.
* To develop and implement new preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic tools and strategies to stop TB.
In order to achieve our mission and make our vision a reality, the Stop TB Partnership has set the following goals:
* Promote wider and wiser use of existing strategies to interrupt TB transmission by:
o increasing access to accurate diagnosis and effective treatments by accelerating DOTS implementation to achieve the global targets for TB control; and
o increasing the availability, affordability and quality of anti-TB drugs.
* " Derive strategies to address the challenges posed by emerging threats by:
o adapting DOTS to prevent and manage MDR-TB, and to reduce the impact of HIV-related TB.
* Accelerate elimination of TB, by:
o promoting research and development for new TB drugs, diagnostics and vaccines; and
o promoting adoption of new and improved tools by ensuring appropriate use, access and affordability.
