Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, and Dr Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the Global Fund, said that the only way to carry out the urgent work of identifying all new cases of tuberculosis, while simultaneously making progress against the most serious existing cases, will be to mobilize significant funding from domestic sources and international donors.
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“现在急需扩大耐多药结核病防治工作,我们正做出积极努力,但还未看到明显成效。”
“We are treading water at a time when we desperately need to scale up our response to MDR-TB”
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世卫组织总干事陈冯富珍博士
WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan
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他们说,鉴于绝大部分结核病防治国际资金通过全球基金渠道筹集,有必要努力使今年的工作更有成效。
With the overwhelming majority of international funding for tuberculosis coming through the Global Fund, they said, it is imperative that efforts to raise money be effective this year.
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考虑到耐多药结核的威胁越来越明确,做到这一点尤为要紧。
Growing alarm about the threat of multi-drug resistant TB, also known as MDR-TB, is making that even more pressing.
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陈博士说:“现在急需扩大耐多药结核病防治工作,我们正做出积极努力,但还未看到明显成效。
“We are treading water at a time when we desperately need to scale up our response to MDR-TB,” said Dr Chan.
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通过国际合作,结核病控制已经取得很大进展,但如果不立刻采取行动,我们就会轻易丧失这种好局面。”
“We have gained a lot of ground in TB control through international collaboration, but it can easily be lost if we do not act now.”
WHO and the Global Fund have identified an anticipated gap of US$ 1.6 billion in annual international support for the fight against tuberculosis in 118 low- and middle-income countries on top of an estimated US$ 3.2 billion that could be provided by the countries themselves.