[Call to register] Webinar for media: To end AIDS by 2030, we have to stop neglecting TB!

[Watch webinar recording] [Listen or download the audio podcast] In lead up to World AIDS Day 2016 let us recollect governments' promise to end AIDS and TB by 2030. But TB continues to be a lead killer for people living with HIV. What more needs to happen to meet SDGs by 2030?

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Date: Wednesday, 30th November 2016
Time: 1pm - 2pm Geneva time
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The WHO Global TB Report 2016 shows increase (not decrease) in TB cases and TB deaths. Rate of TB decline is majorly falling short to end TB by 2030.
TB continues to be a lead cause of death for people living with HIV. TB being curable and preventable, this is unacceptable!
47th Union World Conference on Lung Health had key messages around TB HIV. Learn more from experts in this webinar.
Unless TB and HIV affected communities are central to health responses, we will fail to meet the SDGs by 2030. Listen to the personal experiences shared by affected people in this webinar!

Panel of experts

[Presentation] [Watch recording from 3:30 - 16:50] Dr Anthony D Harries, Senior Advisor and Director, Department of Research, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union)
[Presentation] [Watch recording from 16:51 - 30:10] Dr Ishwar Gilada, President, AIDS Society of India (ASI) and Co-Chair (org.), 18th National Conference on Pulmonary Diseases (NAPCON 2016)
[Watch recording from 34 - 40:40] Nomampondo Barnabas, will share personal experiences on why community engagement is key to health responses
[Watch recording from 40:45 - 48:34] Monisola Ajiboye, will share personal experiences of living with HIV and why community engagement is key to health responses
Ashok Ramsarup, Award winning senior journalist from Durban, South Africa; formerly Program Producer, SABC Lotus FM; and Webinar Moderator

Shobha Shukla, CNS Managing Editor and webinar co-Moderator

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Saving the next generation from HIV

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service) The joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is mobilizing governments and other partners to achieve new set of targets, referred to as, '90-90-90 by 2020', but with current set of tools, approaches, funding commitments, and challenge that HIV poses to the world, the goal seems certainly a bold and ambitious one. '90-90-90 by 2020' targets include increasing to 90% the proportion of people living with HIV who know their diagnosis, increasing to 90% the proportion of people living with HIV (PLHIV) receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART) and increasing to 90% the proportion of people on HIV treatment who have an undetectable viral load. Among the evidence-backed programmes to prevent transmission of HIV, one of which has proven to work so effectively so as to eliminate that form of transmission from a population is: eliminating mother to child transmission of HIV. Mother to child transmission has been eliminated fr

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