GlobalHealthReporting.org Highlights World TB Day Coverage

Several newspapers recently published articles in observance of World TB Day. Some of the articles appear below.

• "African Countries Urged To Prioritize Fight Against Tuberculosis" (Xinhua/People's Daily, 3/24).
  
• "An Old Foe Gets Stronger" (Trenton Times, 3/27).
  
• "Armenian Health Officials Say TB Figures Up" (AZG Armenian Daily, 3/25).
  
• "Call for 'Aggressive Tracing' To Be Option in Treating TB" (Wall, Irish Times, 3/25).
  
• "Correct Diagnosis Has Helped Save Many Children's Lives" (Charan, The Hindu, 3/27).
  
• "DOH Introduces Anti-Tuberculosis Drive" (Hsu, Taiwan News, 3/25).
  
• "DOTS Program Launched To Eliminate TB" (Pakistan Press International Information Services, 3/25).
  
• "Families Called in To Battle TB" (New Scientist, 3/25).
  
• "Fighting Tuberculosis" (The Post/AllAfrica.com, 3/24).
  
• "Gov[ernment] Steps Up Drive To Stamp Out TB" (Manila Standard, 3/25).
  
• "In the Absence of New TB Drugs, Researchers Resort to Community Action" (Thom, Health-e News, 3/24).
  
• "India Joins a Battle Against TB" (Economic Times, 3/27).
  
• "Kenyan Official Blames Poverty, HIV/AIDS [for] Upsurge of TB Crisis" (Xinhua/People's Daily, 3/25).
  
• "Looking Closer at Tuberculosis" (Ginindza, The Swazi Observer, 3/27).
  
• "Making India Free of Tuberculosis" (Financial Express, 3/25).
  
• "More Than 33,000 Tuberculosis Cases Diagnosed in 2005" (AIM/AllAfrica.com, 3/24).
  
• "Most TB Sufferers Not Treated, Minister Says" (South China Morning Post, 3/26).
  
• "'Not Letting Go' Is Secret to High Cure Rate in Western Cape" (Thom, Healh-e News, 3/24).
  
• "Old Killer's Resurgence: Tuberculosis Remains a Threat, Even in Developed Nations" (Fresno Bee, 3/25).
  
• "Omaheke Chosen as Model Region in Stopping TB" (Namibia Economist/AllAfrica.com, 3/24).
  
• "Pakistan Ranks Sixth Among 22 States in WHO List of Tuberculosis Disease" (Farooqui, Business Recorder, 3/25).
  
• "RP Battle Against Top Killer TB a Success" (Contreras/Esguerra, Philippine Daily Inquirer/INQ7.net, 3/25).
  
• "SA's TB Cure Rate Still Poor" (Bodibe, Health-e News, 3/24).
  
• "Speakers Concerned Over Increasing Number of Tuberculosis Cases" (Business Recorder, 3/25).
  
• "State's Tuberculosis Cure Rate 'One of the Highest' in Country" (The Hindu, 3/26).
  
• "Support World TB Day, Says National Health Council" (Dlamini, BuaNews/AllAfrica.com, 3/24).
  
• "TB a Disease of the Poor, Experts Say" (CP/Toronto Star, 3/25).
  
• "TB Cases Rising Among Expats" (Torr, Gulf Daily News, 3/26).
  
• "TB Claims 70,000 Lives Yearly in Bangladesh" (Xinhuanet, 3/25).
  
• "TB Control Programme Has Few Takers in Private Sector" (The Hindu, 3/26).
  
• "TB: Still a Health Issue" (Kuensel, 3/25).
  
• "TB the No. 1 Killer" (Sennyah, New Sunday Times, 3/26).
  
• "They Successfully Struggle [Against] Tuberculosis in Armenia" (ARMINFO, 3/25).
  
• "Towards a World Free of the Scourge" (New Sunday Times, 3/26).
  
• "Uganda's TB Rates on [the] Rise" (Xinhua/People's Daily, 3/27).
  
• "Walk on World TB Day" (Pakistan Press International Information Services, 3/25).
  
• "World Marks Tuberculosis Day" (The Tide, 3/26).