World TB DAY 2024
Civil Society Note
Point to Ponder
Dhaka begins the World TB Day 2024 celebration with the call YES! WE CAN END TB. The last year’s theme’s continuation YES! WE CAN END TB by 2023 to bring powers collectively to achieve the United Nations High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on Tuberculosis 2023’s political targets to END TB; the theme narrates a few more things like the engagement of those affected by TB, communities, and civil society to lead the movement to END TB.
The TB STUDY GROUP (TSG), a civil society
organization in Bangladesh believes that diagnosis of Tuberculosis is difficult.
The TSG stresses the expansion of molecular WHO Recommended Diagnostics
Cartridge-based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (CB-NAAT)- GeneXpert and
Tuenut, innovation of newer drug for short-course treatment and use of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for ending this disease.
The TSG also recommends early availability of
anti-TB vaccine; the few anti-TB vaccine candidates in phase III trial. Those
vaccines must complete the trials soon, the completion of safety tests, and
those anti- TB vaccines must be available to save more lives from
tuberculosis.
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