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Article: PRESS CONFERENCE BY TUBERCULOSIS SPECIAL ENVOY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 25, 2008
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The United Nations issued the following press release:
Global leaders will meet to fashion a common strategy to scale up efforts to systematically address HIV and tuberculosis co-infection at United Nations Headquarters on 9 June, Jorge Sampaio, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy to Stop Tuberculosis, said today.
Mr. Sampaio told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing that the meeting was expected to be a galvanizing moment towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for tuberculosis - halting and reversing its incidences - with a measurable impact on individual health and well-being, as well as global health security.
He said the meeting was being organized ...