Students take the lead on TB education in their schools, homes and communities
In the densely populated State of Madhya Pradesh, where there is a high burden of TB, the ACSM team is working…
Annual Union Values award winner: Madhava Sai Sivapuram
Since 1920, The Union has been at the centre of the fight against tuberculosis (TB) and lung disease. Along the way The Union…
Annual Union Values award winner: Alpha Panda
Since 1920, The Union has been at the centre of the fight against tuberculosis (TB) and lung disease. Along the way The Union became…
Annual Union Values award winner: Thazin
Since 1920, The Union has been at the centre of the fight against tuberculosis (TB) and lung disease. Along the way The Union…
From training to impact: Improving childhood TB notification in Lesotho
Mpho Matlotliso Maketekete Khesa is the Programme Childhood TB and Training Coordinator at the Ministry of Health in Lesotho, where she…
Accelerating an end to TB in urban India
In close collaboration with national and local partners, The Union is leading two initiatives designed to accelerate the elimination of…
TB is not a fact of life: Break the chain of transmission - World TB Day 2026
Each year, every World TB Day statement you read will start: “We have the knowledge, tools and skills to treat, cure and…
Union DR-TB Working Group awarded grant to support nurses
Researchers at the University of Virginia, in collaboration with colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Boston…
Women in Lung Health: Prof Marieke van der Zalm
Prof Marieke van der Zalm is an Associate Professor in Paediatrics and Child Health at Stellenbosch University, with a decade of…
Women in Lung Health: Dr Garima Bhatt
Dr Garima Bhatt is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of York and a public health professional focused on tobacco…
Women in Lung Health: Prof Anete Trajman
Professor Anete Trajman is a Full Professor of Internal Medicine at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro …
Union members invited to help drive our strategic direction
As part of The Union’s drive to strengthen our ability to achieve a world free of tuberculosis and lung disease, our members are invited…
Can we optimize the TB response amid funding constraints using evidence-based, cost-effective strategies
An article in a forthcoming issue of IJTLD OPEN examines cost-effective and integrated strategies to sustain and strengthen the TB response in low- and middle-income countries amid declining donor funding.
Experts call for the gap to be closed on chronic respiratory diseases: launch of new journal to address inequity
World leading lung health experts are calling for greater coordinated action to reshape the global response to chronic respiratory…
A reflection on 2025
Uniting the lung health community in Copenhagen and New Delhi
Despite devastating global funding cuts and geopolitical turmoil,…
Lung health community unite in Copenhagen to reaffirm commitment to end tuberculosis and lung disease
Despite devastating global funding cuts and geopolitical turmoil, over 3,000 lung health experts took part in the Union World Conference…
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