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PHA3 mobilisation: Africa Update Various pre- PHA3 mobilisation activities have begun in the region and in attempt to have a coordinated efforts towards the assembly, mobilisation committees have been set up. Four sub-regional committees have been formed: West Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa and Central. Contacts of PHM exist in the following countries West Africa: Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Senegal East Africa: Tanzania, Kenya, Djibouti, Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia Southern Africa: Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Malawi, Angola and South Africa Central Africa: Cameroun, Gabon, DRC and Congo. A regional mobilisation committee will be developed from representatives of these sub-regions. Recently the East Africa sub-regional committee held their first meeting on Wednesday 13 July 2011 to identify possible mobilisation ideas, themes, terms of reference and identifying two representatives for

People’s Health Movement- Sierra Leone Chapter PRESS RELEASE Freetown , 15th June 2011 TB DRUGS NOT AVAILABLE AT HEALTH CENTRES IN SIERRA LEONE – PATIENTS ARE DYING We, people infected and affected by HIV and Tuberculosis and health workers in the People’s Health Movement- Sierra Leone Chapter , are alarmed by the absolute shortage of supply of TB drugs at health centres in the country for over two months now. Over this period of drug shortage , TB patients who have started treatment have stopped treatment prematurely because health care workers cannot provide the drugs either in intensive or continuation phases . This appalling state of national health care service that exists without explanation is shameful , demonstrating wide cracks in the National Health system that allows vulnerable persons to fall through. In spite of repeated enquiries to get clarification on theshortage of drugs no information seems to come through . We doubt