Canada's Role: Activities to Fight TB

Canada is committed to the 2000 Announcement of the G-8 Okinawa declaration of the goal to reduce poverty and diseases of poverty, including TB by 50% by 2010.

This TB Control laboratory in Peru uses equipment, funded by CIDA, to help diagnose tuberculosis in screening patients.

Several organizations in Canada are working on the World StopTB initiative:

• Alberta Lung Association
  
• Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada
  
• British Columbia Lung Association
  
• Canadian International Development Agency
• Canadian Lung Association/L'Association pulmonaire du Canada
• Canadian Public Health Association
• Canadian Nursing Association
• Canadians for the Elimination of TB
• Canadian Thoracic Society
• City of Toronto Public Health
• Public Health Agency of Canada - National Microbiology Laboratory
• International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD)
• L'Association pulmonaire du Québec
  
• Queens University
• Results Canada
• Saskatchewan Lung Association
• TB Services, British Columbia
• TB Services, Manitoba
• TB Services, Quebec
• University of Alberta, Department of Public Health Sciences
• University of Alberta, Department of Medicine
• University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
• University of Alberta, International Health Centre Faculty of Nursing
• University of Alberta, International Projects
• University of Alberta, International Secretariat
• University of Calgary, Respiratory Medicine

Find out more about Canada's Role in the Fight Against TB

      Lima, Peru