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Global meeting on tuberculosis opens in Bangkok
 The Stop TB Partnership, hosted
by the World Health Organization (WHO) with almost 1000 partners globally, is
holding a meeting of its coordinating board in Bangkok to map its work in more than 100
countries.
The 21st
meeting of the Coordinating Board of the Stop TB Partnership, being held 30
January to 1 February, will set the tone for the partners worldwide as they
move forward in 2012 to achieve the goals of the Global Plan to Stop TB,
the Partnership's roadmap for reducing by half deaths from TB by 2015.
In 2010, 8.8 million people became ill
with TB and 1.4 million people died from the disease.In Thailand
nearly 95,000 new cases of TB occurs each year and the country is ranked 18th
on the list of “22 high-TB burden countries”. But the Stop TB Partnership believes that the contagious
disease can be eliminated from the world. Find out more from the links below.
Links Bangkok meeting information Bangkok meeting on facebook Stop TB Partnership What is tuberculosis?
WHO Thailand on Facebook
 The
Thailand
country office of the World Health Organization is now on Facebook.
Come and follow our activities in the country. As a specialized UN agency for
global health, the WHO first set up a country office in Thailand more
than 60 years ago. It has been collaborating closely with the Royal Thai
Government and other relevant partners over the past six decades on public
health development in Thailand.
That work continues today.
Follow us at http://www.facebook.com/WHOThailand.
Call for innovative health technologies for low-resource
settings
 Do you have a new technology solution to a well-known health
problem?
Do you have a technology solution to
a health problem not yet addressed?
The Medical Devices unit of WHO
invites you to submit your solution to the Call for innovative health
technologies for low-resource settings.
Selected submissions will be
published in the WHO Compendium of innovative health technologies 2012.
WHO aims to raise awareness of the
pressing need for appropriate design solutions. The
Compendium series was initiated to encourage a dialogue between stakeholders
and stimulate further development and technology dissemination.
The annual publication serves as a
neutral platform to introduce health technologies that have the potential to
improve current health outcomes or to offer a solution to an unmet medical
need in low-resource settings. The Compendium series specifically focuses on
innovative technologies that are not yet widely available in under-resourced
regions and countries.
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