| Description Of Item | Includes correspondence with headings Farmer, Cassis, Hiatt and Kramer. Papers relating to the two meetings have been mixed together. Letter from Paul Farmer, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School to Crofton on George Soros' willingness to lead a global crusade against TB enclosing letters from Nick Banatvala and Soros and a paper titled 'The Dilemma of MDRTB in the Global Era' with Crofton's reply; letters from Crofton to Henry Cassis, Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Harvard Medical School on the meeting in Geneva; letter from Marcos Espinal, WHO [World Health Organisation] Global Tuberculosis Programme enclosing a working draft report of the Geneva meeting; papers for both meetings including lists of participants, 'Protocol for Implementation of Individualised Treatment Regimens (ITR) for MDRTB in Resource-Poor Settings', 'Task Force on MDR' a memo by John Crofton, update from Peru on efforts to treat and control MDRTB, 'Public Health Implications of Tuberculosis in Prisons and Jails in Eastern Europe and Central Asia', 'Use of Standard Third-Line Treatment Regimen for Tuberculosis Patients Failing Treatment on a Standard Second-Line Regimen - Generic Guidelines for Protocol Development; correspondence relating to a memo by Crofton titled 'Task Force on MDR' and his offer to lead the task force; 'The Contribution of Treatment to the Prevention of Tuberculosis' by John Crofton; |