By Chhay Sophal
Cambodia News
Phnom Penh (20 Sept 2018): The World health leaders, policy makers, experts and other advocates or activists are meeting in New York next week to discuss the fight to end the tuberculosis worldwide in the next 12 years.
The first ever UN high level meeting on TB to be conducted in the UN headquarters on 23-27 September 2018 is aiming to urge the UN member states to show their political will and commitment in the fight to end TB by 2030.
The globe is concerning that TB killing over 4,000 people a day around the world needs to be coped properly otherwise it kills more people, especially HIV-positive people. The disease is easily caught up by anyone anywhere through the air in family, community and the society as the whole.
According to the World Health Organisation, TB is still one of the top ten murders of the global deaths and its symptoms include chest pain, fever, night sweats, and weight loss that need to have quality of diagnosis and treatment to avoid suffering and death.
Three Cambodians – one NGO worker, one blogger, a journalist — are invited by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) to participate in the meeting and other side events.
For Cambodia, although the number of death of TB has declined there is one third are missing case and the country needs more efforts, commitments, investment and resource in research, diagnostic, treatment and prevention so that it can join the UN for TB free world by 2030.
The 9 other top killer diseases are Ischemic heart disease, Stroke; Lower respiratory infections, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, Diabetes mellitus, Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, Dehydration due to diarrheal diseases, and Cirrhosis, according to WHO.
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