World Stop Tuberculosis Day And Tuberculosis Alert Campaign
EDM number 1889 in 2005-06, proposed by Keith Vaz on 23/03/2006.
That this House welcomes World Stop TB Day on 24th March 2006; congratulates TB Alert, on its campaigns to raise awareness of TB; further congratulates all other groups working to tackle this serious disease; notes that TB leads to 1.75 million deaths worldwide every year from a curable disease; welcomes the launch of the Global Ten Year Plan to Stop TB and endorses its aim to save 14 million lives by 2015; looks forward to major British contributions to achieving this aim; regrets that despite continuing developments in the diagnosis and treatment of TB, annual incidence in the UK has increased by 33 per cent. over the past decade; looks forward to the forthcoming guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence on clinical diagnosis and management of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom; and hopes that this document will provide accurate and comprehensive guidance, detailing the most advanced testing regimes available to health professionals.
This motion has been signed by a total of 64 MPs.
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