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@agbasteiro @Auruminstitute @Manhica_CISM @ISGLOBALorg It was great to see your site. It was very impressive

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Lucica Ditiu says she is puzzled by the reluctance to implement TPT. The Stop TB partnership strongly supports the need to treat 30 million people with TB infection. We need to hold countries accountable for scaling up TPT #HLMTB, @unitaid, @WHO

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Robert Redfield says CDCs role is to put in place interventions that we know works including TPT. Need tools to diagnose TB infection that will progress to TB disease. CDC will put science into action but first will invest in the science of TB infection #HLMTB, @unitaid, @WHO

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Tony Fauchi calls attention to the NIAID TB strategic plan which will support research on basic science, new diagnostics, prevention (both vaccine & treatment), treatment of disease, including MDR TB

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Amb. Birx say that PLHIV on treatment will be screened for TB & start TPT and this will End TB among PLHIV #HLMTB, @unitaid, @WHO

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Global Fund encoragies countries to scale up TPT, and to invest domestic funding for TPT #HLMTB, @unitaid, @WHO

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Unitaid is doubling portfolio of TB projects & includes TB preventive therapy. Investment includes 3HP scale up in 12 countries in children <5 and PLHIV. UNITAID also promotes price reduction of rifapentine to support scale up #HLMTB, @unitaid

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SOUTH East Asia region has commited to ending TB and will invest domestic funding. Modeling suggests that scaling up TB preventive therapy is required to bend the curve in SE Asia and to End TB #HLMTB, @unitaid, @WHO

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Soumya Swamanathan says WHO recommends TPT for household contacts and PLHIV and will help countries implement TPT. WHO organized a global task force to address TPT and need R&D to identify a bio marker to identify those that need treatment of infection #HLMTB, @unitaid, @WHO

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Indian Minister of health says that India wants to End TB by 2025 and will offer TB preventive therapy to children and people living with HIV and will prove nutritional support for TB patients. Health & Welness Centre’s will screen for TB and offer TPT #HLMTB, @unitaid

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Minister Motsoaledi wants heads of State to talk about TB & and to state that we can’t afford not to scale up effective interventions, including preventive therapy targeting high risk populations including miners with silicosis. #HLMTB, @unitaid, @ygpillay

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Minister Motsoaledi says that there is a massive pool of people infected with TB that may develop TB. “Prevention is better than cure” and we need to treat those at highest risk of developing TB, people living with HIV, children & health care workers #HLMTB, @unitaid

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Ibrahim Abubakar says treating TB preventive therapy is essential to ending the TB epidemic to ensure we get the same gains in countries that have scaled up TB preventive therapy #HLMTB, @unitaid, @WHO

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We need to implement a comprehensive strategy for TB control that includes TB preventive therapy #HLMTB, @unitaid

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Salmaan Keshavjee highlights the impact of treatment of TB infection in the Bethel district in Alaska which resulted in a dramatic reduction in TB. Similarly in New York & Tomsk & Voronezh (Russia) #HLMTB, @unitaid, @WHO

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Arnie von Delft says “What a day, today is a day of hope” and calls on the world to test & treat all TB infection including MDR TB infection #HLMTB, @unitaid

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HIgh burden countries should conduct implementation research to evaluate models of delivery for scaling up TB preventive therapy #HLMTB, @unitaid, @WHO

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We call on high burden countries to implement preventive therapy to End TB as required by the UN HLM declaration on TB #HLMTB, @unitaid

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Investment in the health of the workforce is often neglected, particularly health care workers and silica exposed workers who are at very high risk of TB @WHO, @StopTB