March
24
World
TB Day
World TB Day, falling on March 24th each year,
is designed to build public awareness that
tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in
much of the world, causing the deaths of several
million people each year, mostly in developing
countries. March 24th commemorates the day
in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch astounded the
scientific community by announcing that he
had discovered the cause of tuberculosis,
the TB bacillus. At the time of Koch's announcement
in Berlin, TB was raging through Europe and
the Americas, causing the death of one out
of every seven people. Koch's discovery opened
the way towards diagnosing and curing TB
WHO
is working to cut TB prevalence rates and
deaths by half by 2015.
International Day for
the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human
Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims
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