Excellence awards to raise profile of "global tuberculosis catastrophe":
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The WHO's Stop TB Partnership and South Korea's Kochon Foundation have launched an award to raise awareness of the "global public health menace of catastrophic proportions" that is tuberculosis, said to be responsible for 5,000 deaths per day. Winstone Zulu, a Zambian HIV/AIDS care and counselling services developer, and Dr LS Chauhan, manager of India's national TB control programme (credited with the rapid expansion of DOTS-based services), were awarded jointly for their excellence in these areas, at the 37th World Conference on Lung Health, in Paris, today.
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