WORLD STOP TUBERCULOSIS DAY AND TUBERCULOSIS ALERT CAMPAIGN

Early day motion 1889, tabled 23 March 2006 by Keith Vaz (Labour). Signed by 64 members.

That this House welcomes World Stop TB Day on 24th March 2006; congratulates TB Alert, on its campaigns to raise awareness of TB; further congratulates all other groups working to tackle this serious disease; notes that TB leads to 1.75 million deaths worldwide every year from a curable disease; welcomes the launch of the Global Ten Year Plan to Stop TB and endorses its aim to save 14 million lives by 2015; looks forward to major British contributions to achieving this aim; regrets that despite continuing developments in the diagnosis and treatment of TB, annual incidence in the UK has increased by 33 per cent. over the past decade; looks forward to the forthcoming guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence on clinical diagnosis and management of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom; and hopes that this document will provide accurate and comprehensive guidance, detailing the most advanced testing regimes available to health professionals.

Signatures by party: Labour 40, Liberal Democrat 11, Conservative 5, DUP 4, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Plaid Cymru 1, UUP 1.