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    "id": 511965,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/511965/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I want to confirm that the Government sponsored three Members of this House to Barcelona. They were hon. (Dr.) Pukose, hon. Murgor and I. At this conference, Members of Parliament from Kenya and five other countries, led by Nick Herbert from the UK Parliament, launched the Barcelona Declaration. It calls for coordinated global action to drive down rates of Tuberculosis across the world and to accelerate progress towards ending Tuberculosis as a threat to global public health. It is in our interest to tackle the disease. Tuberculosis is an airborne, infectious disease with no respect for boundaries. If we do not act to eliminate Tuberculosis, and the spread of drug-resistant Tuberculosis is allowed to continue unabated, patients, families and health systems of nations will struggle to deal with the costs. That is why, today, I am calling on our Government, in conjunction with others across the world, to intensify its response to Tuberculosis and act to scale up existing interventions, improve the pace in the development of new drugs, diagnostics and vaccines, and invest in innovative programmes to diagnose and treat everyone who has this disease. Since our economies are global, our approach to this disease must also be global. I, therefore, want to urge the 11th Parliament to sign the Barcelona Declaration as a demonstration of our combined commitment to address Tuberculosis in the country---"
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