Speech about the Facts and eradication of TB

 

Facts About Tuberculosis

 

Tuberculosis is a curable disease!

The actual treatment cost for TB is only 5p a day for 6 months (£9 for full treatment). Yet, this curable disease continues to ravage populations in the southern hemisphere.

In the absence of an effective vaccine, a substantial reduction of treatment duration offers the only hope of reducing the mortality from TB and, eventually, eliminating the pandemic. It is universally agreed that, if tuberculosis is to be eradicated through treatment, then tretament duration will have to be reduced substantailly in order to improve compliance from both the patients and the treatment services.

The outcomes from shorter treatment regimens will be:

For Patients

While for Communities and Nations

1. Gospodarevskaya, E.; Tulloch, O.; Bunga, C.; Ferdous, S.; Jonas, A.; Islam, S.; Raham, M.; Hussain, M.A.; Haque, M. N.; Egwaga, S.; Gardiner, E.; PrayGod, G.; Islam, M. AA.; Mann, G. H.; Wells, W. A.; Squire, S. B.; 2014 Patient costs during tuberculosis treatment in Bangladesh and Tanzania: the potential of shorter regimens Int J Tub Lung Dis. 18: 810-817.

 

World without TB

World Without TB aims to achieve a reduction in treatment duration through clinical trials of currently used drugs. This will be done through a series of rigorously conducted trials to test whether an increase in the dose can be safely achieved and whether this increase can lead to a reduction in treatment duration from the current 6 months to 3 months.

World Without Tuberculosis, however, needs your support to make our Vision a reality!