Dear Mr Ewing,

Thank you for your message and for your desire to support the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

We understand you would like to donate funds to support the fight against tuberculosis in Iraq. While we can certainly appreciate your desire to support a particular goal, unfortunately at the Global Fund we have no way to earmark funds for a particular project such as you request.

Should you decide that you still want to contribute to the Global Fund, we would suggest that the best way would be to get in touch with our partner organization the UN Foundation, as gifts made through them are considered tax-deductible for U.S. tax purposes. Their contact details are as follows:

UN Foundation/Global Fund
PO Box 96618
Washington DC 20090-6618

We trust that this information was helpful, and please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any other questions.

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Can you recommend a specific NGO or tell me how to contribute to a Global Fund account

Thanks

Peter Ewing
256-313-0153
peter.ewing@us.army.mil

-----Original Message-----
From: Saka [mailto:bounce-Saka@myglobalfund.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:07 PM
To: Ewing, Peter D AMRDEC/IMMC
Subject: Re: [Open Discussions] womens perspectives regarding Tuberculosis in Iraq

Great Peter,
Not too difficult, you could collaborate with exiting NGO in Iraq or chanell your fund through Global fund account for this to be implement in the country of your choice.
However, you may set up your own funding and implementing mechanism and sub grant to implementing agency with special strenght in TB.

Granting and sub grating may be expensive, intensive but result oriented this and many more may be ideal method.

Regards


Dr Saka M.J MPH; MBA; FMCPH
Research and Technical Manager (Publication Editor for NHR) Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria (HERFON) 10, Sakono Street (Opposite AP Plaza,Wuse II, Abuja Nigeria)
+234 9-4618496, +234- 9-6705711,08030686345,08056544551
Fax: +234-9-5240433 www.herfon.org
sakamj1@yahoo.com, msaka@herfon.org


--- On Mon, 8/18/08, peter.ewing wrote:


From: peter.ewing
Subject: Re: [Open Discussions] womens perspectives regarding Tuberculosis in Iraq
To: sakamj1@yahoo.com
Date: Monday, August 18, 2008, 6:25 AM


I would like to contribute personal funds to help fight TB in Iraq. How can I do it ?ThanksPeter EwingUS phone 256-313-0153peter.ewing@us.army.mil


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Great Peter, Not too difficult, you could collaborate with exiting NGO in Iraq or chanell your fund through Global fund account for this to be implement in the country of your choice. However, you may set up your own funding and implementing mechanism and sub grant to implementing agency with special strenght in TB.   Granting and sub grating may be expensive, intensive but result oriented this and many more may be ideal method.   Regards Dr Saka M.J MPH; MBA; FMCPH Research and Technical Manager (Publication Editor for NHR) Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria (HERFON) 10, Sakono Street (Opposite AP Plaza,Wuse II, Abuja Nigeria) +234 9-4618496, +234- 9-6705711,08030686345,08056544551 Fax: +234-9-5240433 www.herfon.org sakamj1@yahoo.com,  msaka@herfon.org --- On Mon, 8/18/08, peter.ewing <bounce-peterewing@myglobalfund.org> wrote: From: peter.ewing <bounce-peterewing@myglobalfund.org> Subject: Re: [Open Discussions] womens perspectives regarding Tuberculosis in Iraq To: sakamj1@yahoo.com Date: Monday, August 18, 2008, 6:25 AM I would like to contribute personal funds to help fight TB in Iraq. How can I do it ?ThanksPeter EwingUS phone 256-313-0153peter.ewing@us.army.mil The Open Discussions forum is where you can start you own discussion on a topic related to the implementation of Global Fund-supported grants. If you donʼt want to receive this forum by email and wish to unsubscribe to this mailing list, please go to the forums subscription page.If you have any question regarding forum subscription/unsubscription or you would like to send your comments, please contact the MyGlobalFund support team at support@myglobalfund.org. This forum is a service offered by MyGlobalFund, the community site for sharing ideas and best practices in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

I would like to contribute personal funds to help fight TB in Iraq. How can I do it ? Thanks Peter Ewing US phone 256-313-0153 peter.ewing@us.army.mil

Iraq is one of the countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region with the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden.

Tuberculosis in Iraq represents a socio medico economical problem. It affects the most socio economically active age groups of society, where about 65% of the reported cases are among 15-35 years.

The annual risk of infection is estimated to be 1-2%.

The estimated incidence of TB is about 130 new cases / 100.000 population / year with about 30.000 new cases per year among which 12600 new smear positive pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) according to the last statistical data. The death rate is 3%

Control of TB is a top priority for Iraqi Ministry of Health (MOH) and a most challenging task.

The disease is treatable and preventable if properly managed steps were considered.

Iraq has implemented its National TB Program (NTP) according to WHO guidelines since the late seventies; 

Male to female ratio is 2/1 with case detection rate of only 28% .this means that there are 9000 hidden cases in the community/year, in which large number of them are suspected to be females. This indicates poor CDR (he global target is 70%).

These issues needs to be studied thoroughly to decrease the burden of this disease on the health of Iraqi community (these studies if planned and designed correctly could be feasible, cost effective and applicable).

 National target is to achieve 70% case detection rate and cure rate of 85% of these cases.

 

Our goal:

 Is to contribute to the prevention of the disease occurrence and transmission.

We also noticed that the gender ratio is 2:1 that is the female TB patients had low chance to access TB services than male due to many social constraints so many women with indoor tuberculosis.

This issue need to be considered more thoroughly as the the disease is still considered a stigma when women are the victims and it seems that a lot of health education efforts should be spend on societies as ours to change the attitude of the community regarding this aspect and for the sake of encouraging womens with suspicious symptoms to attend the health clinics for further investigations.  Civil societies should take the lead in coordinating all the efforts toward achieving this target.