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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Eric Goosby as UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis.
The World Health Organisation said it welcomes the appointment and the organisations will work together on an “End TB Strategy” to meet “ambitious” eradication targets of cutting tuberculosis deaths 95% by 2035.
The WHO will serve as Secretariat providing logistical support to Goosby.
The newest Special Envoy is Director of the Institute for Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy in Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
He became a medical doctor during the emergence of AIDS and began clinical research into HIV-associated TB and antiretroviral agents. Goosby has held several senior roles at San Francisco General Hospital, including Associate Medical Director of the HIV Clinic. He set up early “DOTS” anti-TB programmes at the hospital, and was himself infected with TB in 1985.
Goosby later founded HIV Services within the US Department of Health and Human Services, and helped lead the White House’s national AIDS policy.
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