'TB-Tweet-Up' - You're invited to Berlin!

November 10, 2010

PLHIV and TB Patients Innovate for Greater Involvement - You're invited to

Berlin!

The world's first 'TB Tweet-Up' will take place on the 11th of November from the

WHO Stop TB Symposium, November 11, 2010, on the opening day of the 41st Union

World Lung Conference in Berlin.

Live & Direct:

A group of comrades from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe will be relaying and

reporting what is happening at this important annual

Conference, to encourage 'greater involvement' in issues related to TB, TB-HIV,

MDR and Human Rights. Reaching out to marginalized language groups, such as

speakers of Hindi, French, Russian, Bahasa Indonesia as well as in English, this

groundbreaking 'TB-Tweet-Up' will 'connect' those who cannot be in Berlin, but

are affected by these pandemic diseases.

Some two million of our comrades die each year of a 'curable' disease,

tuberculosis. Millions of others will suffer from the toxic drugs and

faulty diagnostics. Half a million people will die this year from drug

resistant TB, most not even aware of what is painfully killing them.

Tuberculosis is the cause of death of over half of the PLHIV who die each year,

and there are too few activists and advocates pushing from the bottom-up in a

top-down system of TB 'Control'.

Taking new and innovative steps forward, the iMAXi ative and the

World Care Council Collective are organizing this first 'TB Tweet-Up' to inform,

and to invite your comments and views. You can bring to this exclusive

Conference some realities from the community, and your

participation helps the drive for greater accountability and 'openness'.

Come online the 11th of November.

If you are on Twitter, please follow

@StopTB_Unity and @IMAXICoop from 09h00 (CET) on Thursday, 11 November.

If you are not yet on Twitter, take a minute to register (free and easy) at

www.twitter.com, and then follow @StopTB_Unity and @imaxicoop.

We'll follow you too! You can also simply visit www.imaxi.org and have a taste

of the Twitter slow-feed on the homepage without registering for anything.

Participate in this new innovative tool of empowerment.

Meet us at the Stop TB Symposium in Berlin.

" Universal Access to TB Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care "

Thursday, 11 November 2010, 09:00 – 18:00 (CET)

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