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In its recently released (16 April) “Final Opinion on Electronic Cigarettes,” the European Union’s Scientific Committee on Health,…

On April 28th, Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies voted unanimously to strengthen its tobacco control law; 415 Congressional members supported…

A huge body of research demonstrates that tobacco growing is neither safe—it results in green tobacco sickness—nor lucrative, with the…

With support from The Union, Mexico’s National Institute of Health conducted a systematic literature review of nearly one thousand…

All content in PHA is Open Access and free to read. PHA covers all areas of operational research including: infection control, nutrition…

Indonesia is unduly burdened by tobacco: it has a has a 63% male smoking prevalence, and smoking causes approximately 235,000 deaths…

India’s Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act 2003 (COTPA) bars tobacco company corporate social responsibility (CSR) as does…

The authors conducted a retrospective analysis to determine the proportion of asymptomatic COVID-19 in the workplace during lockdown in early 2020. Nearly 45% of cases were asymptomatic, which has implications for interventions, such as enforcing quarantine of all close contacts of COVID-19 cases regardless of symptoms.

The Union in partnership with TB Alert, WHO Regional Office for Europe and the Stop TB partnership today released a new guide “…

On 8 April, Muhammadiyah, one of Indonesia’s largest, most influential civil society organisations, organised a high-level meeting to…

At a meeting on 31 March, newly appointed Makassar Mayor Mr Ramadhan Pomanto urged the 1.5 million residents of Eastern Indonesia’s…

In this recently accepted article for IJTLD, the authors performed a cohort-comparison study to assess Pretomanid in a regimen to treat drug-resistant TB: patients receiving the BPaL regimen had a significantly better 6-month post-treatment outcome than those on the B–L regimen. The preprint is free to read.

In this recently accepted Review for IJTLD, the authors summarise the evidence available at a country level, identifying broad mechanisms by which COVID-19 may modify TB burden and mitigation efforts.

Tobacco industry interference in public health policies is not new but has, over the past few years, significantly intensified in Mexico…

The Jharkhand legislative assembly approved, on 22 March, an important amendment to national legislation—The Cigarettes and Other…

World TB Day marks a time when we join with others and call for global action to end tuberculosis, an airborne disease that…

In the lead up to World TB Day, an article in PHA calls for increased funding and renewed leadership to coordinate the global fight against TB. A relatively small investment in TB control has the potential to transform TB care, saving millions of lives and trillions of dollars in the global economy.

In 2015 the Bangladesh government began to levy a 1 percent Health Development Surcharge (HDS) for all tobacco products, an amount of…

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), together with the University of Cape Town and The Union, pays tribute to…

This study reports on the rate of co-infection with influenza A in a cohort of COVID-19 patients and its impact on the clinical course and outcome.