The grand ceremony awarding winners of Best in Profession Contest held among specialists of anti-TB service of the region took place on 27 March at 11:00 in the Donetsk Regional Philharmonic Hall.
 

Winners of Best in Profession Contest Held Among Anti-TB Doctors in Donetsk Region to be Announced on 27 March, 2008 at 11:00 in Donetsk Regional Philharmonic Hall.

The day of 24 March is a special date in TB history. Robert Koch announced discovery of tuberculosis bacillus on this day in 1882. The UN held the first World TB Day 100 years after on 24 March, 1982. The day has been marked annually since then. TB remains a big global problem for public health. Almost 9m new cases are registered every year around the world and over 1.5m people die.
 

One of the oldest TB centers in Dnepropetrovsk Region is facing a shutdown. The decision was made by the Regional Council and Dnepropetrovsk Health Care Administration. Officials argue the facility is inefficient and its premises have outdated. Yet the TB center patients believe someone has simple put eye on the building.

To May of current year an interdepartmental working group will develop conception of decision in the country of problem of maintenance of prisoners, patients the active form of tuberculosis.
 

Donetsk Regional Red Cross Society and Amstor Trade House carried out a joint charitable campaign "For Future Without TB" from July, 2007 till January, 2008 under the regional program "Fighting TB Epidemic in Donetsk Region in 2007-2011. People donated UAH 83,011.95 for the time of the campaign.
 

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been recorded at the highest rates ever, according to a new report published today. The report presents findings from the largest survey to date on the scale of drug resistance in tuberculosis.

Luhansk region was holding a 1-month TB-fighting project from 24 February to 24 March, 2008.
 

On 12 February, 2008 at 11:00 Donetsk Regional Anti-TB Hospital saw a grand opening of the conference-hall after repair carried out with technical support of Foundation for Development of Ukraine.

Vasiliy Knyazevich, the Minister of Health of Ukraine, held a meeting with heads of regional health departments, chief doctors of sanitary and epidemiological stations, scientists, chief TB doctors, heads of anti-TB programmes and public organizations.

The opening ceremony of the reconstructed conference hall is to take place on February 12 in Donetsk Oblast anti-TB hospital. The technical support of the Event is provided by the Foundation for Development of Ukraine.

On the New Year Eve Foundation for Development of Ukraine provided technical support to presentation of gifts to sanatorium-type kindergarten No.5 with around-the-clock stay of TB-infected children (Makeyevka Town) from a private donor.

A new World Bank research report, completed on behalf of the Stop TB Partnership, finds that 22 countries with the world's highest numbers of TB cases could earn significantly more than they spend on TB diagnosis and treatment if they signed onto the Stop TB Partnership's Global Plan to Stop TB.
 

High attention to tuberculosis epidemic today, population's contribution and willingness to help have encouraged the Foundation for Development of Ukraine and Amstor national trading network to extend their joint campaign for one more month, until 27 January 2008.