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
New Union report exposes silent epidemic of child TB
Launched at side meeting of the World Health Assembly
The Union launched a new report today, Silent Epidemic: A Call to Action…
$100,000 landmark donation will aid The Union’s programmatic and advocacy work on childhood TB
The Union is delighted to announce that its work in childhood tuberculosis (TB) has been significantly boosted by the generous gift of…
Union study in Francophone Africa combats childhood TB
Childhood tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most urgent challenges facing the lung health community and is made particularly challenging…
Systematic review reveals extent of childhood TB epidemic
Tuberculosis has once again become the world’s deadliest infectious disease, surpassing HIV/AIDs in 2015 and killing an estimated 1.8…
Union launches new study on prevention and treatment of childhood TB
The Union launched a new observational study investigating tuberculosis transmission in children in February. Close to 2,000 children…
New childhood TB online course launches
The Union in collaboration with World Health Organization has launched an interactive online course, Childhood TB for Healthcare Workers…