ACW Partner Highlight: Public Health Watch

AIDS-Care-Watch (ACW) commends the work of our campaign partner- Public Health Watch (a project of the Open Society Institute)- for their work in monitoring national governments’ commitments to HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB).

According to a new study published by Public Health Watch (PHW) (released just before the International Aids Conference in Toronto), governments around the world are failing to address the deadly interaction between tuberculosis and HIV.

The report examines the preventable but growing global TB epidemic, its interaction with HIV/AIDS, and the inadequate response to the two diseases in Bangladesh, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Thailand. The report revealed a striking lack of political commitment to control TB, despite the fact that tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death for people living with HIV/AIDS, and that AIDS is fueling a resurgence of TB in many areas of the world.

Public Health Watch urges national governments, NGO’s and activists to take immediate action against the twin epidemics- HIV and TB. For more information about PHW and this report, please go here.