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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