On November 1, 2006, at the 37th Union World Conference on Lung Health, Public Health Watch’s TB Monitoring Project will release a series of reports that analyze TB and TB/HIV policy in Bangladesh, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania and Thailand from a community perspective. OSI Chairman George Soros will be joined by UN Special Envoy to Stop TB Jorge Sampaio, WHO Stop TB Department Director Mario Raviglione, and Public Health Watch researchers to launch the reports.

For more information on the reports or to receive copies, please contact Emily Bell (ebell@sorosny.org). A press release will be posted on this website on November 1.

On November 4, Public Health Watch and the Treatment Action Group will chair a symposium at the conference to demonstrate ways in which community advocates can play a critical role in fostering leadership, improving TB/HIV policies, and expanding government capacity to offer effective TB control services. Entitled "The Role of Community Advocacy in Improving TB-HIV Programs and Policies,” the symposium will feature community activists from Armenia, Georgia, Mexico, Pakistan, and Uganda, each of whom are actively involved in local, regional and global TB-HIV policy advocacy.

For more details, please contact Eleonora Jimenez at the email address above, or see the 37th Union World Conference on Lung Health website.