Yesterday was World TB day as decided by an international group of about 500 orgainisations including the WHO. Many thanks to our regular correspondent, Heather Finlay-Morreale, a medical student at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio, for drawing attention to the following useful sites below- Rhona

1. Stop TB partnership World TB day website at http://www.stoptb.org/

2. You can read resources and guidelines from the WHO and others on TB, TB and HIV, and  multi-drug resistant TB (In English and Spanish)  at
http://www.stoptb.org/resource_center/documents.asp

3. The WHO : A world free of TB partnership website is at  http://www.who.int/tb/en/ where you can download the Global TB Control Report 2008, The Stop TB Strategy, and The Global Plan to Stop TB 2006-2015.

4. The Families USA website also has an  online game styled after a popular arcade game called “Whack TB” where you can “whack” TB globally and then email leaders to support increased funding for research on TB. The game has a link so you can email friends and help spread awareness of TB. http://www.familiesusa.org/issues/global-health/whack-tb/

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