Union webinars

Hear from tobacco control implementation experts who share their experiences of achieving high compliance with tobacco control laws, through real-world case studies, and learn how to use these experiences to improve compliance rates.

Digital adherence technologies for TB are increasingly being used in a variety of contexts to monitor adherence to TB medications. This presentation aims to acquaint online attendees with the range of DATs being used in high and low TB burden settings.

Speaker Leo Martinez, winner of the 2017 Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize, will provide an overview review of transmission dynamics of M. tuberculosis in settings where both tuberculosis and HIV are endemic.

Smokeless tobacco (SLT) users are exposed to a large and varied number of health hazards. It has been estimated that 90 percent of the world's SLT users live in the Southeast Asia region. This webinar will inform the latest research and policy developments on smokeless…

Article 5.3 in Framework Convention on Tobacco Control provides guidance to protect public health policies from the tobacco industry. This webinar will inform on the straties and challenges for implementing Article 5.3’s Guidelines, address approaches to strong implementation…

This webinar is hosted by The Union’s TB and Mental Health working group, in partnership with Survivors Against TB, a community group that works with TB survivors and diverse stakeholders to advocate on creating patient and community focused paradigms of care in TB in India…

The session reported on the survey of Union members and members of Global Drug Initiative and Global Laboratory Initiative about the availability of drug susceptibility testing, followed by a discussion of potential strategies to expand this availability.

Determining the source of a zoonotic infection is generally limited to whole-genome sequencing. In this webinar, leaders in the development of new rapid TB diagnostic tests discussed the challenges and progress, including rapidly identifying cases of ZTB.

Although the primary risk of coronavirus infection in young people with co-morbidities such as TB, HIV, or severe malnutrition is still uncertain, the negative impact of the pandemic on this already vulnerable population is becoming clear.

Speakers highlight recent literature on epidemiology, diagnosis, clinical signs, risk stratification, pulse oximetry, treatment approaches, including CPAP, clinical trials, air pollution, stakeholder perspectives and prevention efforts, as well as the latest on COVID-19 as a…

Portuguese language webinar

French language webinar

Speaker: Mark Jackwood, University of Georgia
Moderator: Liliana Salvador, University of Georgia, USA

Expert speakers will discuss The Union's new position paper 'Where bans are best: Why LMICs must prohibit e-cigarettes and heated tobacco product sales to truly tackle tobacco' which considers the potential impact that novel products could have on low- and middle-income…

This webinar will discuss the importance of stigma in health care facilities and amongst health care providers, and how to recognise and effectively address it. Recognising and addressing stigma in health care facilities and improving the well-being of care providers offers…

This Union member-led webinar builds on this IJTLD article, describing the TB and COVID-19 situation in Zimbabwe, and discussing safeguarding the provision of TB and collaborative TB-HIV services in Africa. Recent international guidance on TB-HIV care during COVID-19 will…

Portuguese language webinar
Facilitadores: Anete Trajman (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) e Anna Cristina Carvalho (Fiocruz, MS). Apresentadores: Dr Denise Arakaki, Ministério da Saúde, Prof Ethel Leonor Maciel, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Carla…

Spanish language webinar
Los facilitadores serán el Dr. Gustavo Zabert y el Lic. Gustavo Sóñora.
Los expositores serán la Dra. Laura Llambí, el Dr. Rogelio Pérez Padilla y el Dr. Carlos Jiménez Ruiz. Con comentario especial del Dr Eduardo Bianco.

TB remains the number one global infectious-disease killer and prevention remains key to its elimination. While prevention of any infectious disease makes intuitive public health sense, TB prevention has been a relatively neglected area in TB control efforts until recently.…

Kate O’Brien and Ezio Tavora Dos Santos Filho, both TB survivors, will chair the discussion. The panellists will be: Claire Forlani, film and television actor and Union Ambassador. Dr Purna C. Kashyap, a COVID-19 survivor, based in the USA. Ms Athira Elssa Johnson, who is…

Speakers: Former Union President Jeremiah Chakaya, Leo Martinez, Anthony D Harries.

Spanish language webinar:
Moderadores: Gustavo Sóñora y Cristiane Vianna
Participación especial: Dra Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva
Expositores: Silvana Rubano Turci, Jorge Vega Cárdenas, Rodrigo Bolaños

Moderator: Victoria MacDonald, Channel 4 news
Panellists: Lucica Ditiu, Stop TB Partnership, Marijke Wijnroks, The Global Fund, Tereza Kasaeva, WHO, Cheri Vincent, USAID, Catharina Boehme, FIND, José Luis Castro, The Union, Subrat Mohanty, The Union

French-language webinar
Modérateurs : Kobto Ghislain Koura et Bertrand Kampoer
Topic 1. COVID-19 : Considérations pour la prise en charge de la tuberculose. Présentateur : Dennis Falzon
Topic 2. Comment la communauté peut aider les PNT dans le contexte du…

Chairs: Amanda Christensen, Australian Respiratory Council and Niesje Jansen, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation
Speakers: Dr Carrie Tudor, International Council of Nurses, Dr Grigory Volchenkov, Vladimir Regional Tuberculosis Control Center, End TB Transmission Initiative (…