About Stop-TB eForum
	Stop-TB is an e-mail discussion forum (eForum) for various stakeholder groups to network, share experiences and ask for advice on issues related to community, programmatic and policy aspects of TB control and TB/HIV integration. Founded in mid-2001, Stop-TB is a moderated eForum, with support from a virtual network of experts called the eForum Resource Team. Stop-TB objectives - Support and promote multi-stakeholder participation in the Stop-TB Partnership; - Ensure that civil society stakeholders are openly and genuinely involved in the Stop-TB Partnership; - Expand discussions and public awareness around TB and annual World Stop TB Day events; - provides a virtual meeting place to foster new partnerships and promote a multidisciplinary approach to TB.   Core functions - Providing a platform for dialogue, discussion and debate among you – the eForum members and Stop-TB partners; - Supporting regional and national advocacy initiatives; - Mapping regional and national developments and emerging issues; and - Providing an overview of news, events, projects and resources   Members People living with active TB, MDR-TB or HIV, and those treated for TB; TB/HIV/AIDS service organizations; people working in government ministries, non-governmental and community-based organisations, and other national and international organisations ; UN and other regional and global intergovernmental agencies; employees of national, provincial and district-level governments; corporate, multilateral and institutional donors; doctors and health workers; HIV/AIDS and TB documentation/information centres; research institutes; academic establishments; journalist/media groups; faith-based organisations; pharmaceutical and other private sector organizations. Members come from Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America, Northern America and Europe.

	38th IUATLD Conference, Cape Town, South Africa
	Health and Development Networks (HDN) and its partners mostly from southern Africa are attending the 38th Union World Conference on Lung Health of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), which will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) in South Africa, from 8 to 12 November 2007.   The HDN Key Correspondent (KC) Team of seven KCs from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, India and the Philippines will be doing issue-focused coverage of the 38th Union World Conference on Lung Health from 8-12 November in Cape Town, South Africa. Click here to Speak Your World through HDN initiatives.   During and after this conference, KC reports, announcements, useful links and documents on TB and TB/HIV co-infection will be posted here!   KC Onsite Reports 1. Extensively drug-resistant TB: Controlling infection 2. Tackling the health sector ‘brain drain’ 3. Integrating TB responses into HBC programmes 4. Community and TB care 5. Smoking increases the risk of tuberculosis 6. Using the internet to train physicians on MDR-TB 7. Missing the target: Struggling to meet global TB control goals 8. New diagnostic technology raises hope in TB endemic countries 9. Who will champion the cause of TB among children? 10. Cape Town march calls for more effective responses to TB and HIV 11. Prioritising needs in TB control and treatment: Without unlimited responses, difficult choices must be made 12. African TB conference highlights need for joint TB and HIV programmes 13. New technologies vital to TB fight: Are programmes ready to adopt them? 14. Improved data on XDR-TB "early next year": WHO 15. New tools for TB prevention, diagnosis and treatment urgently needed 16. Integration of TB-HIV services still poor 17. Jail for TB treatment defaulters? 18. TB control to strengthen health systems 19. Partnerships are the way forward in the fight against TB 20. Children neglected in response to TB 21. Animal to human TB transmission largely ‘forgotten’, experts say 22. MSF calls for a new approach to drug testing   Other KC reports and news pieces on TB and TB/HIV co-infection 1. Deadly HIV-TB co-epidemic sweeps sub-Saharan Africa - report 2. Zimbabwe's TB explosion 3. Economic, food conditions derail efforts to fight TB and HIV 4. People affected by TB and HIV speak their world through images 5. Fighting drug-resistant TB spread from hospitals 6. South Africa study predicts major rise in XDR-TB 7. South Africa: Number of Tuberculosis Cases Rises 8. Combine treatment to fight dangerous TB - report 9. TB Photovoice event at Cape Town 10. Kenya faces uphill TB battle 11. Weak TB drugs pose risk to people living with HIV 12. Needed winds of change: transforming Thailand’s TB control programmes 13. TB/HIV service integration is still a distant dream 14. TB survivors bring vital insight to fighting the epidemic 15. Greater coordination needed to tackle TB in Zambia    Events at a Glance! 1. TB PhotoVoice Project activities 2. Global TB and HIV March 3. Filling the Gaps in Managing TB Pharmaceuticals and Commodities 4. Time for change - new approaches for managing drug resistant TB   For more info, visit the conference website.

	TB Photovoice Thailand Website
	We are delighted to inform you of a new website for TB Photovoice Thailand: www.hdnet.org/tbphotovoice The TB Photovoice project enables people with experiences of TB in different parts of the world to take photos of their daily lives, and write personal essays based on the pictures, with an ultimate goal of influencing the way society perceives the disease. The new website for TB Photovoice Thailand is a step further in providing a voice to local people to articulate best practices and obstacles in the national response to TB-HIV. According to the founder of TB Photovoice, Dr Caroline Wang, “Photovoice is a process by which people can identify, represent, and enhance their community through a specific photographic technique. It entrusts cameras to the hands of people to enable them to act as recorders, and potential catalysts for social action and change in their communities.” Important links to documents and websites related to TB Photovoice Thailand project: - HDN Key Correspondent Article about TB Photovoice Thailand on The Correspondent website at http://www.thecorrespondent.org/featuredarticle.view.aspx?a=c269ba28-f82b-46a1-bf1b-7564d4d50159 -  Background information about TB Photovoice: http://www.tbphotovoice.org/   (TB Photovoice Thailand is coordinated by Health & Development Networks (HDN) in partnership with Chiang Dao Hospital, Chiang Dao Public Health Department, Chiang Dao PWHA Network and the Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Chiang Mai, with support from the Amaya-Lacson TB Photovoice Project.)