World Tuberculosis Day is celebrated on March 24
According to the World Health Organization, today, March 24, the World Tuberculosis Day is celebrated worldwide.
According to the information provided by them, the purpose of celebrating this holiday is to raise awareness about the consequences of tuberculosis for human health and society, as well as to inform about the economic consequences of tuberculosis and strengthen efforts to combat the global tuberculosis epidemic.
"In 1882, it was Robert Kohukur who announced the discovery of a bacterium-the causative agent of tuberculosis, which made it possible to detect and treat this disease," the statement said.
World Tuberculosis Day reminds that world leaders urgently need to fulfill their obligations in the following areas:
- expand access to prevention and treatment;
- strengthening responsibility;
- ensuring adequate and stable financing, including for;
- promoting the end of stigma and discrimination;
- expansion of anti-tuberculosis activities based on the principles of justice, respect for human rights and consideration of people's needs.
Please note that tuberculosis (TB) is the deadliest infectious disease in the world. Every day 4 thousand people die from this preventative and curable disease, and about 30 thousand get sick. It is estimated that 58 million people have been cured since 2000 due to global efforts to fight tuberculosis.
The information is taken from the website: kabar.kg/news/segodnia-po-vsemu-miru-otmechaiut-vsemirnyi-den-bor-by-s-tuberkulezom/
Famous personalities of Kyrgyzstan in the framework of "look not at the disease, but at the person himself" will tell about the events of tuberculosis patients. On the eve of the World Tuberculosis Day, famous personalities pay attention to the stigma and discrimination of tuberculosis patients.
The social film created by the project "support for tuberculosis patients" is an opportunity to see the problem of stigmatization of patients on your own experience, to feel their thoughts, fear and pain. These and other news can be read in the information booklet of the project "support for patients with tuberculosis: https://www.doormedia.kg/bulletin-0221