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• Tobacco Vendor Licensing (TVL) reduces tobacco product availability and accessibility, particularly to vulnerable youth. A key tobacco control measure, TVL can limit tobacco retailer density around schools, parks, and hospitals; this is critically important because vendor…

• The Ethics Advisory Group (EAG) of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease is seeking one or more new members. Members of the EAG contribute to all aspects of its work, with a particular emphasis on review of research applications and encouraging ethical…

An Editorial in the next issue of the IJTLD examines lessons learned from the Asthma Drug Facility and how this informs future plans for asthma management. The preprint is free to read.

• A research project undertaken by The Union has featured in the WHO’s second report of country success stories in mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB services.

  The Union’s Centre for Operational Research delivered the study across 36 health facilities…

• Over 61.4 million people in Indonesia smoke, with 65% of all adult men smoking. In 2020, the Joint External Monitoring Mission on Tuberculosis (TB) for Indonesia found that 36% of all TB cases (about 300,000 TB cases) were attributable to tobacco smoking. In response, The…

• After acknowledging that it is critical to ensuring and protecting the public health, the North-Eastern Indian state Manipur issued a notification severing all future collaborations and partnerships with the tobacco industry. The notification also created an “empowered…

• The Bangladesh railway system—this includes stations, platforms, and train compartments—is now entirely smokefree, following a February directive from Railway Minister, Mr. Md. Nurul Islam Sujan. Working in conjunction with The Union, the Minister launched  the “…

• As part of this week’s G20 Indonesia summit, The Union President and Interim Executive Director Prof Guy Marks spoke at a side event about financing the tuberculosis (TB) response.

  Prof Marks stated: “We do need more investment in TB control to end TB, but we need to…

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  This week, The Union launched the 29th edition of Cours International pour la lutte contre la Tuberculose. This training course, developed in partnership with the National Tuberculosis Programme of Benin, has been completed by more than 550 health services…

Correspondence in a forthcoming issue of IJTLD examines the impact of the war in Ukraine on healthcare systems in the area, including both Eastern and non-Eastern European countries and future management of TBI and TB disease. The preprint is…

• The Diagnostic CXR Atlas for Tuberculosis in Children: A Guide to Chest X-ray Interpretation (the Atlas) has been extensively revised, with the aim of assisting non-specialist healthcare workers in high tuberculosis (TB)-burden settings to interpret chest x-rays (…

• World TB Day is an opportunity for us to celebrate our achievements, while focusing ourselves on the task at hand – eliminating TB. The COVID-19 pandemic and other global adversities have made this task more challenging, but we must remain positive and work together…

• Despite substantial progress in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) since the first edition of this publication in 2003, approximately 250,000 children are still dying from this curable disease every year. At the United Nations first-ever high-level meeting…

• The Union is very pleased to announce that the World Health Organization (WHO) has released updated and consolidated guidelines on the management of TB in children and adolescents for World TB Day 2022, along with a detailed operational handbook to facilitate and support…

• As part of a drive to support the next generation of lung health leaders, The Union is accepting applications for free student memberships. This has been thanks to the generosity of Union members who have been donating the memberships.

  During the week of World TB Day…

• The Union has commenced a study into the integration of smoking cessation within National Tuberculosis Programmes in Benin and Burkina Faso.

  Smoking has negative consequences for people with tuberculosis (TB), such as the progression of TB infection to active TB…

• The implementation of contact investigation in eight Francophone Africa countries has helped protect children and people living with HIV from tuberculosis (TB).

  From October 2020 to June 2021, 94% of children under five years and 95% of people living with HIV…

A selection of articles from IJTLD to mark World TB Day 2022.

• Policy brief on the importance of prioritising the nutrition of people with TB and wider population to achieve End TB goals. Produced by TB Undernutrition, a working group of The Union TB Scientific Section.

• The Union, in collaboration with the national tuberculosis programme (NTP) and a local non-governmental organisation, built the tuberculosis (TB) care and prevention capacity in Kenya.

  From 2016 to 2021, majority of the TB coordinators across the country were trained…

• On International Women’s Day 2022, we celebrate all of the inspirational women at The Union, as we stand against inequality.

  The Union is a diverse organisation, with female staff, consultants and members across the world in a variety of roles and fields. Today we…