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"Madam President, tuberculosis, like malaria and AIDS, is one of the great pandemics which are decimating the populations of developing countries, particularly in Africa and Asia. This directly results in a deteriorating economic and social situation in these countries.
However, European countries have also failed to cope with the high incidence of tuberculosis. This disease cannot be considered simply as a medical-pharmaceutical problem, or just as a problem of human behaviour. It also involves issues of human development and integrity, and also justice, which require a global approach. People who are ill with tuberculosis in developing countries are also victims of injustice, for the treatment they receive is insufficient and not of the same quality as in the developed world.
We need further research, and a continuous flow of new medicines and vaccines capable of responding to new complications and resistant strains of various pathogens. I would like to draw your attention, however, to those simple heroes who are fighting tuberculosis, enabling us to continue treating the sick, to resist the hardships created by combined infections of tuberculosis and AIDS, and to help all countries meet the millennium challenges. We must support health workers in developing countries. Health workers are leaving for more affluent countries because health budgets are being slashed in their own countries.
I support the Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, but we must take a global approach to overcoming this disease. It is not enough just to support research and the pharmaceutical industry, because, apart from anything else, it will be a long time before this research bears fruit."@en1
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