Our work in child & adolescent TB
The Union works to develop, test, implement and scale up routine screening of child contacts of people with TB. We run observational studies and advocate to ensure children and adolescents are included in clinical trials that target diagnostics, vaccines and treatment of TB disease and infection.
The Union’s Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis Centre of Excellence is a virtual network of tuberculosis (TB) professionals and organisations in the sub-Sahara Africa region, providing a community of learning and practice for childhood and adolescent TB. It currently covers Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Eswatini, Zimbabwe.
Other areas of our work in tuberculosis
You might also be interested in our work on drug-resistant TB and TB-HIV, TB-diabetes and co-morbidities.
Two Union-led projects, in Uganda and four french-speaking countries, successfully developed influential models which saw local health workers trained to identify and treat children with TB as well as identifying those who would benefit from TB preventative therapy.
Part of The Union membership TB section, the maternal and child TB working group has provided technical support to countries considering potential safety of intermittent preventive therapy in pregnancy. As advocates, they collected stories from women around the world affected by TB in pregnancy, developed posters for the UNHLM for UNICEF and a briefing document, ‘The Dangers of TB in Pregnancy.’ These resources are available on The Union Childhood TB Learning Portal.
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Child & Adolescent TB Union news
The Child and Adolescent TB Centre of Excellence
The Union is launching the Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis (TB) Centre of Excellence in Uganda, to promote collaboration and learning…
The Union highlights child TB on the International Day of Families
Today, on the United Nation’s International Day of Families, The Union highlights the urgent call to action against child tuberculosis (…
Results of Union pilot project show simple model for significantly improving child TB services
Results of DETECT Child TB, a Union pilot project in Uganda that decentralised health services to detect and treat tuberculosis (TB) in…
Child TB workshop looks at lessons learned and implications for future
A workshop in Cotonou, Benin, recently brought together representatives from the four countries participating in The Union’s TITI study…
The Union Calls on UN Member States to Implement New Child and Adolescent TB Roadmap
Monday 24 September – In advance of the first-ever United Nations High Level Meeting on Tuberculosis, 11 leading health agencies and…
The Union demonstrates impact of child TB in Uganda to visiting parliamentarians, in advance of first ever UN HLM on TB
Between 6-8 August, a parliamentary delegation hosted by The Union in coordination with the Global TB Caucus and other partners visited…