Philippe Clevenbergh: An impatient man tackles HIV in Myanmar
Philippe Clevenbergh never imagined he would end up living in Myanmar when he came to The Union in 2004. He was a busy physician…
PICTS mobile TB clinic serves poor in Myanmar
Of the 100 people who took advantage of this service, 53 had chest X-rays; and the sputum of 46 was examined. One person needed fine…
Union course helps South Africa build strategy for TB-HIV in prisons
With 160,000 prisoners, South Africa has the largest prison population in Africa, according to a recent speech by Correctional Services…
M is for Monitor: The Union helps survey smokefree success in China
The Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS) is a subset of key questions from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) that was designed by…
44th Union World Conference on Lung Health will focus on “Shared air, safe air?”
The conference organised each year by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) will be held on 30…
WHO report shows consistent progress in global fight against tobacco
The WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2013 also highlights the long path ahead, with two- thirds of the world's population not…
TREAT TB launches online operational research training
"The need to build the capacity for programmatically relevant OR is as pressing as ever," says TREAT TB Director Dr I.D. Rusen, who…
Name change: Adult & Child Lung Health Section
The new section will serve members interested in:
• Adult Lung Health – including pneumonia, asthma, COPD, air pollution,…
The Union closes its office in Cairo
"The decision to close the office in Cairo was difficult, but one that had to be taken in order to streamline resources according…
“I have hope now!” A mother and daughter in Myanmar share their experience
The mother's name is Daw Yee Yee Hlaing, and she is 43 years of age. A divorcèe, she lives with her mother, sisters, two sons and…
The Union and its global partners call for bans on tobacco advertising
The Union called on world leaders to ban TAPS and help save the lives of up to 70 million people, seven percent of the world's current…
Buenos Aires sets a Guinness World Record at World No Tobacco Day celebration
In Argentina, World No Tobacco Day on 31 May was celebrated in a massive way. The Buenos Aires Ministry of Health, a Bloomberg…
SORT IT offers OR training to help address DR-TB in Eastern Europe
The programme for Eastern Europe was organised by the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) at the…
US campaign seeks to debunk the “Overhead Myth”
The campaign has been launched by three leading US organisations that monitor philanthropic activity – the Better Business Bureau's Wise…
Leadership transition at The Union
"All of us in The Union, the global public health community and the sick, poor and disadvantaged people to whom our work is devoted owe…
Health and NCDs a priority in the UN High-Level Panel report on post-2015
The UN Secretary-General's High-level Panel of Eminent Persons (HLP) released their final report on the post-2015 development agenda on…
A major victory for NCDs at the 66th World Health Assembly
The key decisions in the resolution are:
To endorse the WHO global action plan for the prevention and control of NCDs…Lanzhou Smokefree Law Passed
In China, Lanzhou People's Congress approved the local tobacco control law on 27 April 2013. The law will go into effect on 1 January…
TB-HIV workshop in Maputo: more lives can be saved through decentralisation
Participants in a TB-HIV workshop in Mozambique were advised by the World Health Organization (WHO) that more lives can be saved by…
Child TB training offered in Namibia
The Union's Child Lung Health Division recently facilitated training in child TB for four districts selected by the Namibia National TB…
From TB patient to TB educator through Myanmar’s PICTS programme
"In May of last year, I was in poor health and I found out that I had TB", said Ko Thia, a 28-year-old who works in a nylon rope factory…
Bangladesh passes new law to protect workers from second-hand smoke
A demonstration in Dhaka demanding a tobacco control law amendment at the next parliament. The demonstration was jointly…