The World Health Organization declared TB a "global health emergency" in 1993, and in 2006, the Stop TB Partnership developed a Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis that aims to save 14 million lives between its launch and 2015. A number of targets they have set are not likely to be achieved by 2015, mostly due to the increase in HIV-associated tuberculosis and the emergence of multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis. A tuberculosis classification system developed by the American Thoracic Society is used primarily in public health programs. COUNT 5
QSN1 What group heads up the Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis? ANS1 Stop TB Partnership QSN2 In what year did the WHO say tuberculosis was a "global health emergency"? ANS2 1993 QSN3 How many lives did the Stop TB Partnership vow to save in the nine years between its start and 2015? ANS3 14 million QSN4 Drug-resistant TB is one of the barriers to success of the Stop TB Partnership's initiative; what's the other other? ANS4 HIV-associated tuberculosis QSN5 What organization created a system to classify various types of TB? ANS5 American Thoracic Society