Advocacy

NTCA and its partners have organized events and developed resources to advocate for awareness of TB and for funding for TB programs.

2021 World TB Day Virtual Congressional Briefing: Ending Tuberculosis: How to Save Lives at Home and Abroad

This online briefing was held in cooperation with Representatives Ami Bera (D-CA) and Don Young (R-AK) and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

These Congressional TB Champions also sponsored a second briefing on Wednesday, March 24th. (See the flyer for information about this past event.)

Ending Tuberculosis: How to Save Lives at Home and Abroad

Date: Monday, March 22, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM ET
This briefing was co-hosted by the American Thoracic Society, RESULTS, National Tuberculosis Controllers Association, Treatment Action Group, We Are TB, and TB Alliance.

NOW AVAILABLE: Video Recording of the Briefing

• Julie Higashi, MD, PhD, Director, TB Control Program, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health; Immediate Past President, NTCA: Bio | Presentation
• Tenzin Kunor, MDR-TB Survivor: Bio | Presentation [see recording above]
• Philip A. LoBue, MD, FACP, FCCP, Director, Division of TB Elimination, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC: Bio | Presentation
• Tina Shah, PharmD, MDR-TB Survivor: Bio | Presentation [see recording above]
• Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, Associate Director, McGill University International TB Center: Bio | Presentation

• Agenda for Congressional Briefing
• World TB Day Asks 2021
• e-Dear Colleague: Support FY22 Funding to Eliminate TB PDF of the letter sent to House members. (Please note that the electronic links and signatures will not work.)

• Fact Sheet: TB in Los Angeles County
• Tuberculosis — United States, 2020 — Deutsch-Feldman M, Pratt RH, Price SF, Tsang CA, Self JL. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2021;70:409–414
• We Are TB
• Securing a TB-Free Future through the Visionary Research of the CDC’s Tuberculosis Trials Consortium — The Community Research Advisors Group (CRAG)
• TB Research Investments Provide Returns in Combating Both TB and COVID-19: Sustained and Expanded Financing Is Needed to Safeguard Tuberculosis Research Against COVID-19–Related Disruptions and Improve Global Epidemic Preparedness — Treatment Action Group (TAG) Policy Brief
• We went all-out to tackle Covid-19 – TB needs the same approach — Madhukar Pai and Jennifer Furin, The Telegraph
• How Can We End The Tuberculosis Epidemic? Lessons From Around The World — Zero TB, TAG, RESLTS, Partners in Health, Friends of the Global Fight, AVAC
• The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria: A Smart, Lifesaving U.S. Investment — Friends of the Global Fight
• An Activist’s Guide to Fighting TB — Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
• What We Need to Fight TB: A List of Demands to Stop the TB Epidemic — Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine