[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 4756]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              WORLD TB DAY

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                            HON. GENE GREEN

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 24, 2014

  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize World 
TB Day and call for a continued effort to drive down rates of 
tuberculosis (TB) across the world and accelerate progress toward 
ending TB as a threat to global public health.
  World TB Day is an opportunity to raise awareness about TB-related 
problems and solutions and to support TB-control efforts. While great 
strides have been made to control and cure TB, much more needs to be 
done to eliminate this disease.
  Often believed to be a disease of the past, TB is still a life-
threatening problem in the United States and around the world. Anyone 
can contract TB, and our current efforts to find and treat latent TB 
infection and TB disease are not sufficient.
  We must raise awareness, enhance prevention, control, and treatment 
efforts, and develop new therapies to treat TB, especially for multi-
drug resistant (MDR-TB) and extensively-drug resistant TB (XDR-TB).
  Everyone has a role in ensuring that one day TB will be eliminated. 
As a co-chair of the Congressional TB Elimination Caucus and longtime 
advocate on this issue, I look forward to working with my colleagues in 
Congress and our partners to further the commitment to a world free of 
TB.

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