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“Smokefree Hyderabad” will ensure that smokefree laws are implemented in all public places in the city to protect people from secondhand smoke exposure
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Study shows that empowering staff at local-level TB clinics to collect, tabulate, analyse and use their TB data, led to improvements in diagnoses and treatment.
World No Tobacco Day
The Union calls for renewed efforts to strengthen tobacco control in all countries and integrate tobacco control into health promotion and disease control programmes
World No Tobacco Day
A joint press release to mark World No Tobacco Day 2019 was made by the Framework Convention Alliance and The Union
Webinars
The webinar examines various treatment regimens for latent tuberculosis infection, which is essential in preventing TB before the disease progresses.
"Smokefree Hyderabad" will ensure that smokefree laws are implemented in all public places in the city to protect people from secondhand smoke exposure
Study results showed that empowering staff at local-level TB clinics to collect, tabulate, analyse and use their TB data, led to improvements in diagnoses and treatment.
Results from a new study show that Brazil’s tobacco control actions may have contributed to significant reductions in neonatal and infant mortality over the last two decades.
A joint press release to mark World No Tobacco Day 2019 was made by the Framework Convention Alliance and The Union
The Union calls for renewed efforts to strengthen tobacco control in all countries and integrate tobacco control into health promotion and disease control programmes
The Union alongside members of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies calls for renewed efforts for stronger implementation of the WHO FCTC in order to work towards achieving the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development
Associate Professor Justin Denholm is a member of The Union and serves on its Ethics Advisory Group
At the 72nd World Health Assembly, The Union read out an intervention urging Member States to implement human rights-based approaches to TB and fulfill their commitments to close the TB funding gaps.
At the 72nd World Health Assembly, The Union submitted a statement urging Member States to ensure that future TB treatments and vaccines are affordable and accessible to everyone.
At the 72nd World Health Assembly, The Union calls on Member States to ensure the strategic involvement of tuberculosis as part of the response to antimicrobial resistance.
Union authors have published the following response to a recent article published in The Lancet Global Health titled 'Now is the time for shorter all-oral regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis'.
The NCD Alliance, founded on the vision for a world where everyone has the opportunity for a healthy life, free from preventable suffering, stigma and death caused by non-communicable diseases, celebrated its 10th anniversary this week.
The Union read out an intervention urging Member States to ensure that the upcoming 2019 political declaration on UHC synergises with previous political declarations on TB and other disease areas
The Union today welcomed the filing of a lawsuit by the Government of Brazil against British American Tobacco (BAT) and Philip Morris International (PMI)
The webinar, LTBI: New guidelines from the WHO; getting away from INH, examines various treatment regimens for latent tuberculosis infection – essential in preventing TB before the disease progresses.
Joining Project ECHO provides opportunities for The Union to use this model for other training and knowledge sharing activities.
Today, on the United Nation’s International Day of Families, The Union highlights the urgent call to action against child tuberculosis.
The Union welcomes a report published today by The Economist Intelligence Unit that highlights the huge gaps in the current...
On World Asthma Day, 7 May, FIRS calls for health professionals to evaluate their approach to testing and treating people with this deadly condition and to improve access to basic, effective asthma treatment around the world.
The Union is concerned with the FDA decision this week to authorise Philip Morris International’s IQOS – which heat rather than burn tobacco using a battery-powered system – for sale in the United States.
Hundreds of delegates from across the Asia Pacific region came together last week in Manila, Philippines for a wide range of sessions and symposia, covering TB and other respiratory diseases at the 7th Conference of the Union Asia Pacific Region.
The Union will hold its 19th Conference of The Union Latin America Region from 3-6 July in Panama, in conjunction with the Latin American Thorax Association’s (ALAT, for its initials in Spanish) 12th Annual Congress.
A profile of Professor Kevin Mortimer, The Union’s Director of Lung Health
The Union formally submitted a statement at an interactive multi-stakeholder hearing in New York, as part of the preparatory process for the UN High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage.