[Viva] Fwd: World TB Day 2012: GNP+ calls for a client centered approach to TB diagnosis, treatment and care

[Margarite Sanchez]

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From: GNP Communications <communications at gnpplus.net>
Date: Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:29 AM
Subject: World TB Day 2012: GNP+ calls for a client centered approach to TB
diagnosis, treatment and care
To: margaritesanchez at gmail.com


24 March, 2012: The Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+)
recognises this World TB Day, the annual day to focus attention on
tuberculosis, by calling for a paradigm shift to address the world’s
leading cause of death for people living with HIV.

According to the World Health Organization, tuberculosis (TB) is
responsible for one in four HIV-related deaths. Globally, around one
third of all people living with HIV also have TB. While people living
with HIV, and especially children, are 21-34 times more likely to
develop active TB due to a weakened immune response, the loss of
350,000 people living with HIV in 2010 (i) to a curable disease is
unacceptable.

The involvement and central role of people living with HIV has
contributed significantly to the great gains made in responding to HIV
over the last 30 years. GNP+ in collaboration with UNAIDS developed
Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention, a rights-based framework
placing people living with HIV at the centre of the response.(ii) A
similar approach to TB is essential for an effective TB response for
people living with HIV.

“There is much that can be shared and learnt between the two fields
and greater collaboration can contribute significantly to an improved
TB response,” says Thembi Nkambule, director of Swaziland´s
National Network of People with HIV and AIDS (SWANNEPHA), “The TB
and HIV epidemics are simply too closely connected for us not to work
together.”

The movement of people living with HIV, TB advocates and public health
professionals including the WHO and UNAIDS are calling for a
comprehensive approach to prevent and treat TB among people living
with HIV and save a million lives by 2015.(iii)

“Great gains can easily be made by increasing access to HIV
treatment and improved TB screening,” says Anuar Luna, co-chair of
GNP+: “The achievement of commencing HIV treatment at a CD4 count of
350, following WHO Guidelines, will be one of the greatest gains in TB
prevention.”

Today there are high hopes to achieve zero transmission of HIV from
mothers to their babies following increased political commitment and a
scale up of efforts.(iv) The same should be possible to achieve zero
TB deaths amongst children. Integrating TB diagnosis, treatment and
care with efforts to prevent vertical HIV transmission, presents a
great entry point to deliver services and support children who may be
particularly vulnerable to TB.

“Over the centuries TB has affected the lives of millions of people,
especially children,” says Anna Zakowicz, co-chair of GNP+: “With
a child’s TB treatment costing 50 cents a day, and TB prevention
only 3 cents a day, now is the time to halt this needless loss and
suffering.”

*The Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+)* is the global
network for and by people living with HIV. GNP+ advocates to improve
the quality of life of people living with HIV. Driven by the needs of
people living with HIV worldwide, GNP+ supports people living with HIV
through their organisations and networks. GNP+ works to ensure
equitable access to health and social services, by focusing on social
justice, rights and more meaningful involvement of people living with
HIV in programme and policy development – the GIPA principle.
http://www.gnpplus.net

For more information about this news release: Please contact GNP+
(Martin Stolk, Communications officer, by email
communications at gnpplus.net <mailto:communications at gnpplus.net>
, or phone +31-20-423 4114)

(i) Stop TB Partnership, WHO, UNAIDS, /Time to act: Save a million
lives by 2015. Prevent and treat tuberculosis among people living with
HIV. / Geneva, World Health Organization 2011

(ii) GNP+, UNAIDS. 2011. /Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention: A
Policy Framework/. Amsterdam, GNP+.

(iii) Williams B, Dye C et al, /Tuberculosis among people living with
HIV: is it possible to prevent a million TB deaths by 2015?/
Unpublished technical report; /The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011–2015:
transforming the fight towards elimination of tuberculosis./ Geneva,
World Health Organization, 2010 (WHO/HTM/STB/2010.2).

(iv) UNAIDS, /Countdown to Zero: Global Plan towards the elimination
of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers
alive/. Geneva, UNAIDS, 2011.



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