- link Copy Url - [ Share on twitter ](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=World TB Day Brings Awareness to Global Health Threat https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/35059?absolute=1&via=3blnews "link to 3 B L Media's Twitter") - [ Share on linkedin ](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/35059?absolute=1 "link to 3 B L Media's Linkedin") - [ Share on facebook ](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/35059?absolute=1 "link to 3 B L Media's Facebook") - [ email Share via email ](mailto:?subject=World TB Day Brings Awareness to Global Health Threat&body=ESG News from Eli Lilly and Company https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/35059?absolute=1 "Share via email") [Social Impact & Volunteering](/CSR-News/social-impact-volunteering) # World TB Day Brings Awareness to Global Health Threat Mar 26, 2013 2:00 PM ET Campaign: [Lilly Global Health Programs](/news/campaign/lilly-global-health-programs) ![](https://3blaws.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/carousel_2x/s3/images/MDR-TB%20logo.gif) [LillyPad](http://ow.ly/joQEL) By [David Marbaugh](http://lillypad.lilly.com/author.php?n=david-marbaugh) In recognition of [World TB Day](http://www.who.int/campaigns/tb-day/2013/en/index.html) on March 24, *Financial Times* produced a special report on [*Combating TB*](http://www.ft.com/intl/reports/tb-2013), "a disease that kills nearly 1.5 million people a year and infects nine million, including 600,000 with drug-resistant strains that are particularly difficult to fight." (Note: FT requires sign in to view articles) The report included an [article by Andrew Jack](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/871c6298-870a-11e2-9dd7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2OYPaFAfc) where he talks about how TB is the most "neglected" of the three diseases supported by the [Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria](http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/), the world’s biggest multilateral funder of health programs, "yet it spreads far more easily around the world than either HIV or malaria, with drug-resistant strains rising fast." Dr. Evan Lee, head of The [Lilly MDR-TB Partnership](http://lilly.com/Responsibility/access-to-medicines/lilly-mdr-tb-partnership/Pages/lilly-mdr-tb-partnership.aspx), was quoted in the article on improving healthcare provider training – one of the key areas of focus of our TB partnership. "The doctor is the general on the hill but nurses are much closer to the frontline where the action is and could play a much more important role, in counseling, patient support and early identification of side effects,” he noted. **[Read more about John Lechleiter's urgent call to action to fight TB](http://ow.ly/joQEL)** [![](/sites/default/files/Clients/Logo_of_Eli_Lilly.png)](/profiles/eli-lilly-and-company) ### More from Eli Lilly and Company ###### [Lilly: A Model for Emergent Philanthropy ](/news/lilly-model-emergent-philanthropy) Jun 19, 2015 3:30 PM ET ###### [Lilly: Going to Camp with a NASCAR Driver and an Olympian ](/news/lilly-going-camp-nascar-driver-and-olympian) Jun 12, 2015 1:30 PM ET ###### [Lilly: Saving Children With Global Insulin Donations ](/news/lilly-saving-children-global-insulin-donations) Jun 4, 2015 5:00 PM ET ###### [Lilly Releases Corporate Responsibility, Global Health Reports](/news/lilly-releases-corporate-responsibility-global-health-reports) May 7, 2015 11:40 AM ET ###### [Embracing the Power of Diversity at Lilly](/news/embracing-power-diversity-lilly) Apr 30, 2015 2:30 PM ET ###### [Lilly: Announcing the 2015 REACH Lilly MDR TB Partnership Media Award Winners](/news/lilly-announcing-2015-reach-lilly-mdr-tb-partnership-media-award-winners) Apr 6, 2015 1:30 PM ET ###### [Lilly: Forging Alliances is Crucial to Fighting Tuberculosis](/news/lilly-forging-alliances-crucial-fighting-tuberculosis) Mar 26, 2015 12:45 PM ET ###### [100 Lilly employees selected for Connecting Hearts Abroad](/news/100-lilly-employees-selected-connecting-hearts-abroad) Mar 12, 2015 5:45 PM ET