# \[e-drug\] World TB Day 2003 **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [March 24, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-world-tb-day-2003/16412 "2003-03-24T20:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rachel\_COHEN1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@Rachel\_COHEN1](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/Rachel_COHEN1)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-world-tb-day-2003/16412/1 "2003-03-24T20:46:26Z")
E-drug: World TB Day 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Treatments Needed to Fight Disease that Kills Every 15 Seconds. One-third of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis (TB), the number one killer of people with HIV/AIDS. Drugs currently used to treat TB are 30 to 50 years old and only 27 percent of the world's TB patients have access to existing treatment. On the occasion of World TB Day, March 24, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) joined a teleconference hosted by the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development to discuss the urgent need for new TB medicines, diagnostics, and vaccines. Read the transcript at: [http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/other/tb\_teleco](http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/other/tb_teleco) nference\_3-19-2003.shtml (Repair url!) Rachel M. Cohen U.S. Director, Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines Doctors Without Borders/M�decins Sans Fronti�res (MSF) 6 East 39th Street, 8th Floor \* New York, NY \* 10016 \* USA Tel: +1-212-655-3762 Mobile: +1-917-331-9077 Fax: +1-212-679-7016 E-mail: rachel.cohen@newyork.msf.org [http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/](http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/) [http://www.accessmed-msf.org/](http://www.accessmed-msf.org/)   \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* Please visit [http://www.msf.org/arjan/petition/usa.htm](http://www.msf.org/arjan/petition/usa.htm) and sign MSF's petition calling for the release of our colleague Arjan Erkel who was kidnapped more than six months ago in Dagestan, a republic of the Russian Federation. Thank you!   \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* -- To send a message to E-Drug, write to: e-drug@usa.healthnet.org To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@usa.healthnet.org in the body of the message type: subscribe e-drug OR unsubscribe e-drug To contact a person, send a message to: e-drug-help@usa.healthnet.org Information and archives: [http://www.essentialdrugs.org/edrug](http://www.essentialdrugs.org/edrug)