MIN/Sp/AU/CAMH3/6 TB Page 8 • • • At least 70% of people with sputum-smear positive TB will be diagnosed and at least 85% cured by 2005. These are similar to the targets set by the WHA. By 2015, the global burden of TB (per capita prevalence and death rates) will be reduced by 50% relative to 1990 levels. The global incidence of TB disease will be less than 1 case per million population per year (definition for TB elimination) by 2050. 1.1.4: Abuja Declaration and Plan of Action on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Other Related Infectious Diseases (ORID) 17 In April 2001, the African Heads of State and Government met in Abuja at a special summit of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) devoted specifically to address the exceptional challenges of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Other Related Infectious Diseases (ORID). At the end of the Summit, a Declaration was adopted that, among others, pledging to set a target of allocating 15% of national budgets to the improvement of the health sector, and that an appropriate and adequate portion of this amount is put at the disposal of authorities for the fight against HIV/AIDS, TB and ORID. 1.1.5: Declaration of TB as an Emergency in the African Region In August 2005, recalling Resolution AFR/RC44/R6 of September 1994 on implementation of Short Course Chemotherapy by TB Control Programmes in the region; noting the increasing national and international commitments to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria; and noting the increasing financial resources made available, among others, by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Stop TB Partnership and bilateral partners; and convinced that unless extraordinary actions are undertaken to address the current trend the TB epidemic would only get worse; the 55th session of the Regional Committee of Ministers of Health of the WHO African Region declared TB an emergency in the Region 18 and called for urgent and extraordinary actions to rapidly bring the TB epidemic under control. Among other actions, the resolution requested Member States to: • • • develop and implement with immediate effect emergency strategies and plans to control the worsening tuberculosis epidemic; rapidly improve tuberculosis case detection and treatment successrates; and accelerate implementation of interventions to combat the TB/HIV epidemic, including increased access to ARVs by doubly-infected patients; 17 African Summit on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and other related infectious diseases. Abuja Nigeria. 24-27 April 2001. OAU/SPS/ABUJA/3 18 Resolution AFR/RC55/R5, 25August 2005