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E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: TBIO, WHO, XG SUBJECT: FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS IN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA
1. This is an action request. Please see para 4.
2. Tuberculosis poses a growing health security threat in Europe and Central Asia. In 2005, there were 445,000 new cases of TB in the region. Continued poor adherence to accepted TB control practices has created high levels of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains of the disease.
3. Faced with this public health threat, the 53 member states of the World Health Organization's (WHO) European Region (includes Central Asia and Israel) signed on October 22, 2007, the Berlin Declaration on Tuberculosis. The Declaration commits signatories, inter alia, to strengthen political will, civil society involvement, and public health systems to combat the disease. The full Berlin Declaration can be found on WHO's website (www.euro.who.int/document/e90833.pdf).
4. Action Request: Department requests that Posts report on the status of implementation of the Berlin Declaration in host countries. Reporting should be keyed to paragraph five of the Berlin Declaration, where signatories have made specific commitments, and should be short (recommend no more than two pages). Department, together with USAID and other relevant USG agencies, will use this reporting to determine a strategy for increasing USG engagement with Berlin Declaration signatory countries to raise the profile of the TB threat and find new ways to work together to help mitigate it, with a special focus on public diplomacy. Posts are also welcome to suggest ideas for possible engagement strategies in their host countries to feed into this process. Department requests Posts to report by February 29. Points of contact are David Tessler, EUR/PGI, and Andrea Lauritzen, OES/IHB. RICE
