BMS Foundation Collaborates with WHO Stop TB Department

The collaboration is established for a two-year pilot initiative to strengthen community based prevention, care and control of tuberculosis including co-infection with HIV in five African countries.

The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation has formed a collaboration with the World Health Organization's Stop TB Department for a two-year pilot initiative to strengthen community based prevention, care and control of tuberculosis (TB) including co-infection with HIV in South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

These five countries collectively represented more than 13 percent of global TB and more than one-third of the TB/HIV co-infection burden in 2009.

The initiative is expected to be a catalyst in boosting the meaningful engagement of non-governmental and community organizations, a key objective in the WHO's Stop TB strategy, and will draw on technical assistance through community care experts from the