Within the framework of its national special projects SCM's Corporate Foundation for Development of Ukraine has held the Contest "Creating National Anti-TB Center for Psychological and Social Rehabilitation of Children that Completed TB Treatment Course".
A new World Bank research report, completed on behalf of the Stop TB Partnership, finds that 22 countries with the world's highest numbers of TB cases could earn significantly more than they spend on TB diagnosis and treatment if they signed onto the Stop TB Partnership's Global Plan to Stop TB.
On 23 March, 2007 the World Health Organization (WHO) added four anti-tuberculosis medicines to its list of prequalified products. Manufactured by the generic producer MacLeods (India), the drugs will expand the choice of high-quality medicines available to procurement agencies to tackle the disease.
Yesterday, on November 26, 2007 SCM Corporate Foundation of Ukraine and National Trading Network Amstor have launched their Joint Campaign within the framework of the national project "Stop TB in Ukraine".
On November 13-14, in Kyiv, SCM Corporate Foundation for Development of Ukraine together with All Ukrainian "Coalition of HIV service organizations" held the Second All Ukrainian Conference on national response to TB epidemic: 10 TB challenges and ways to overcome them.
The World Health Organization (WHO) held conference "Results Achieved During Second Year of Adoption of DOTS Strategy in Five Ukrainian Regions" in Foros (Crimea) on 1-3 November, 2007.
Press office of the Health Ministry of Ukraine (HMU) informs that Ukrainian delegation represented by vice-PM D.Tabachnik and Minister of Health Care Yu.Gaidayev took part in the European Ministerial Forum "All Against Tuberculosis" held in Berlin.