TUBERCULOSIS IN AFRICA

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• TUBERCULOSIS IN AFRICA
• Kenya, Rwanda and Somalia
• Photographs by
• Riccardo Venturi

Presented by WHO The Stop TB Partnership
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Portrait of a TB patient. Kenya, Nairobi.
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• Tuberculosis has been declared an emergency
  across Africa

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TB ward in a local hospital. Rwanda, Kigali.
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• Tuberculosis is a disease
• that affects the most vulnerable

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Nomad child. Borama, Somalia.
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• The worlds highest TB rates
• per capita are in Africa

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A mother with TB and her child. Nairobi, Kenya.
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• TB is among the leading killers
• of people living with HIV

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TB patient at the Annalena Tonelli TB hospital.
Borama, Somalia.
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• Extensively drug-resistant TB poses a grave
  global public health threat, especially in
  populations with high rates of HIV.

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Local TB center. Hargeisa, Somalia.
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• We cant fight AIDS unless we do much more to
  fight TB as well.
• Nelson Mandela

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Examining a sputum slide at the Annalena Tonelli
TB Center laboratory in Borama, Somalia.
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• The Global Plan to Stop TB outlines actions to
  save 14 million lives and treat 50 million TB
  patients by 2015

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Patient at a local clinic visit. Kigali, Rwanda.
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• More than 20 million patients
• have benefited from the
• WHO-recommended TB treatments since 1995

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Primary school in the Annalena Tonelli TB Center.
Borama, Somalia.
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• We call upon African governments to commit their
  share of resources needed to implement The Global
  Plan to Stop TB.
• President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria

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Patients wait for their daily TB treatment at the
Annalena Tonelli TB Hospital. Borama, Somalia.
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• I hope other world leaders will work in a
  persistent and consistent manner to stop this
  disease.
• UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

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Child taking his daily TB treatment. Borama,
Somalia.
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• Together

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TB patients in a local TB hospital. Hargeisa,
Somalia.
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Patients wait for their daily TB treatment at the
Annalena Tonelli TB Hospital. Borama, Somalia.
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• We can STOP TB

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TB patient at the Tonelli TB Hospital. Borama,
Somalia.
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• All images Riccardo Venturi/WHO/Contrasto

Presented by WHO The Stop TB Partnership