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Ralph Nader, noted consumer advocate and graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, is the founder of Princeton Project 55 (PP55) and its Tuberculosis Initiative. Princeton Project 55 is an independent, non-profit, public interest organization established by Princeton University's Class of 1955, at the suggestion of Mr. Nader, to encourage more effective involvement in combating social problems that face our nation. Mr. Nader's interest in tuberculosis was originally sparked by the "WHO Report on the TB Epidemic 1996." As a board member of PP55, he presented his idea for a new initiative, along with the testimony of several recognized tuberculosis (TB) experts at the September 1996 board meeting. With the agreement of the board, the PP55 Tuberculosis Initiative was born.
The mission of the PP55 Tuberculosis Initiative is to increase public awareness of tuberculosis, encourage United States leadership of tuberculosis prevention and control programs and facilitate tuberculosis vaccine development by garnering government and industry support. PP55 seeks to remedy the shortcomings in domestic and international TB control efforts by affecting systemic change in the United States' strategies to control the disease.
With the support of the primary international TB control agencies, PP55 hosted a conference in February 1997, entitled "Tuberculosis: A Global Emergency," that was attended by representatives of 25 TB control organizations and a general audience of about 150 people. The message from the 25 participating organizations was that PP55 should devote its efforts to raising awareness of the seriousness of the epidemic. They emphasized that TB has lacked the attention of non-profit organizations like PP55, and there was a need for a "disinterested" advocate who can stimulate collaboration, facilitate innovation and provide a vocal appeal for greater efforts to control TB.
In November 1997, along with the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, the TB Initiative convened the world's leading experts in TB control for a symposium, entitled "The Global Tuberculosis Pandemic: A Strategy for Unified Global Control and Ultimate Elimination." This meeting was a forum for examining the shortcomings in recent efforts to control the resurgence of TB, and establishing what objectives must be met to attain long-term control of tuberculosis.
In the past two years, the TB Initiative has been responsible for generating needed awareness about the epidemic. It has helped generate nearly 50 letters-to-the-editor, opinion-editorials and other articles. It has communicated with top officials within the Clinton administration on various topics relating to TB, including making global health an important piece of U.S. foreign policy, and establishing TB research as a priority within the National Institutes of Health. Currently, the TB Initiative is collaborating with other international health non-governmental organizations to target the foreign operations appropriations subcommittee in Congress for $60 million to go toward TB control programs abroad in the year 2000.
PP55 seeks to increase awareness about the TB epidemic by keeping decision makers informed about regional trends, methods of control and the roles that various organizations can play; through media advocacy to increase attention paid to the epidemic and expand the media's understanding of the complexities of this threat; and finally, by working with other agencies to develop positions on key TB issues. We are dedicated to ensuring that the world's number one infectious cause of death is treated with the urgency and gravity it deserves.
