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UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board issue recommendations on linking TB and HIV |
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The UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board,
- Recognises the commitment to the goal of scale-up to Universal Access at the 2006 High Level Meeting on AIDS as a determination to address the urgent threat that TB, particularly drug-resistant TB, poses to people living with HIV;
- Calls upon member states to mobilize community involvement, including faith based organizations and affected communities, in addressing the prevention and treatment of TB in people living with HIV, including issues of stigma, human rights, migrants and other marginalized populations and, adherence support;
- Requests the UNAIDS Secretariat with WHO to establish mechanisms for accountability of HIV programmes to prevent, diagnose and treat TB in people living with HIV, through the incorporation of relevant indicators in national AIDS action frameworks, which include the goal of reducing TB mortality in people living with HIV;
- Recognizes the need for a person-centred approach, that is “one life - two diseases” and calls on member states to deliver integrated TB and HIV services that provide adequate TB infection control in HIV care settings;
- Requests UNAIDS and WHO to advocate for the inclusion of TB prevention and treatment for people living with HIV in national AIDS action frameworks, as part of the multi-sectoral approach to HIV, and in building the capacity of affected communities to respond to the dual epidemics of TB and HIV;
- Calls upon the international community, including governments, to address the resource gap for the prevention and treatment of TB in people living with HIV through its inclusion in the broader development agenda;
- Requests UNAIDS and WHO to work with relevant partners to accelerate research and development of better tools for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of TB in people living with HIV;
- Calls on UNAIDS to use the decisions of the 22nd Programme Coordinating Board in its work at the global level on TB and HIV through high-level events such as the HIV-TB Global Leaders Forum to be held in New York on 9 June 2008;
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