WHO applauds Call for Action adopted by South-East Asia countries to accelerate efforts to End TB
Health Ministers from countries in WHO South-East Asia Region which bear half the global TB burden, and WHO signed a Call for Action for Ending TB last week, pledging to scale-up efforts and implement adequately funded, innovative, multisectoral and comprehensive measures to achieve the global target to end the disease by 2030. The outputs of the SEARO Ministerial Conference will feed into the upcoming WHO Global Ministerial Conference on ending TB in the sustainable development era which will be held in November 2017, in Moscow.
New MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Global Health at the Human Animal Ecosystem Interface launched on World TB Day
With a highly interdisciplinary and international approach and with more than 30 experts from 20 institutions including the University of Geneva, Institut Pasteur and its global network, University of Montreal, and the World Health Organization, the MOOC addresses major challenges in Global Health at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface, and highlights some of the latest scientific evidence, concepts and tools. Key areas of focus include: zoonotic emerging infections, antimicrobial resistance, rabies, leishmaniasis, zoonotic TB, snakebite etc.
This MOOC stresses on the importance of cross-sectoral approaches to health such as One Health in the sustainable development era and will set an interesting foundation for innovative thinking and discussions between students and experts from the human, animal and environmental fields.This MOOC is open and free to follow, and available in English, French and Chinese, for the first time at the University of Geneva.
- Video: MOOC on Global Health at the Human Animal Ecosystem Interface Interdisciplinary
- Link to MOOC registration
To Be Continued - 24 hour music event for World TB Day
ToBe Continued is a unique concert lasting 24 hours (from 00.00 hours to the midnight of March 24th), during which musicians from all-over-the-world will be connected to a website that will broadcast their concerts. During this un-interrupted 24 hour marathon (ToBe Continued... ) each musician has at disposal a 30-minute window, thus creating a relay of sounds and rhythms that will range across different streams of the "new music" for the cause of ending TB.
Corcovado lit up on World TB Day
The famous Corcovado will be lit up on the occasion of World TB Day thanks to the collaboration of the following institutions: WHO, Stop TB Partnership, Fiocruz, Brazilian Society of Respiratory Diseases and Rede TB. It will be lit up between 6pm and 7pm on 24 March.