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Mexico closes gaps in national tobacco control law, becoming 100% smoke and emissions-free and ninth country in the Americas to completely ban any form of tobacco advertising, promotion & sponsorship (TAPS).

A 16-year assessment of TB treatment outcomes in Uzbekistan has helped identify those who need special attention during treatment to improve future success rates.

• The 2021 update of the Index of Tobacco Control Sustainability (ITCS) – a tool to assess and guide national tobacco control programmes to become sustainable.

• Professor Guy Marks, President and Interim Executive Director, shares his thoughts on The Union's centennial year and thanks all those who made it possible.

   

  Read the message from the President.

• Read about the work The Union's departments and country offices have done and the impact we have achieved around the world in 2020.

• The Union gratefully acknowledges all those that supported our work in 2020.

  Read the list of acknowledgements.

• Financial Statement 2020 Auditor's Report 2020 (in French)
• Annual Report 2020 in English Annual Report 2020 in French

• Early in 2020, it was apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic would have major repercussions for our publishing activities. Given the potential devastating impact of COVID-19 for people with related lung health risk factors and co-morbidities we immediately launched a ‘Call for…

During 2020, Union Courses organised 55 training events, face-to-face and online, for a total of 562 hours of training, which is the equivalent to 70 days. Over 8,740 people have been trained globally.

2020 was a landmark year for The Union World Conference on Lung Health.

Hear from tobacco control implementation experts who share their experiences of achieving high compliance with tobacco control laws, through real-world case studies.

• Kick-off meeting and overview

  The CETA project aims to contribute to the elimination of tuberculosis (TB) in Africa by 2035. The kick-off meeting took place virtually on 30 July 2020, with the eight national tuberculosis programme managers and several partners (…

• The COE is a virtual regional platform established in 2019 by The Union in collaboration with CDC-Global TB Branch, following a regional stakeholder meeting convened in Kampala, Uganda. The overall goal of the COE is to pursue the bold vision of the Childhood TB Roadmap by…

• Project Axshya was established in 2010 with support from the Global Fund Grant, to improve access to quality tuberculosis (TB) care and control through a partnership between the government and civil societies. The project supports India’s National Tuberculosis Elimination…

• The iDEFEAT TB Project is a flagship program of USAID that provides support to the National Tuberculosis Elimination Program (NTEP) through technical assistance, capacity building, e-learning, bridging gaps with human resources, and other critical needs. The project's overall…

• Americas

  The Union in collaboration with global partners published “Smoking in times of COVID-19”. The report answers two key questions, ‘Are people who smoke more at risk of acquiring a SARS-COV-2 infection and developing COVID-19?’ and ‘Do people who smoke have a…

Since 2005, The Union has implemented health programmes in Myanmar, including tuberculosis (TB) active case finding, integrated HIV care and community based multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB). They are all entirely integrated “in, by, with the public health services” and are…

Gan Quan, The Union's Director of Tobacco Control, looks back at COP9 for Health Policy Watch.

• Indonesia

  In Indonesia, the Ministry of Finance released a decree to increase tobacco tax at an average rate of 23% and at an average rate of 35% on tobacco products. In addition to tobacco taxes, the decree also included taxes on foods that contain high amounts of…

18 November to 9 December 2021 (3 weeks)
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New study finds the consequences of post-tuberculosis adds substantially to the disease burden caused by tuberculosis. The Centre for Operational Research at The Union was part of the global research collaboration.

The 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health took place virtually from 19-22 October and it was an engaging and eye-opening virtual event.

It was four days filled with pathbreaking science, some of which got extensive media…

The Union has developed a DR-TB Academy to train physicians, nurses and other health workers on detection, diagnosis and treatment of Drug Resistant TB.

Despite the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and cessation of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) funding, the Centre for Operational Research (COR) continued with its impressive work through the year collaborating with other partners, such as the…

• COVID-19 and Smoking Publications

  In May 2020, the Tobacco Control team published the first of eleven scientific briefs on COVID-19 and smoking. The briefs, which were disseminated to Union staff, posted on our website, and shared with tobacco control and non-…

• Watch the 'Inclusion of Child and Adolescent TB activities in the Global Fund Submission 2021 -2023' training webinar.

• This webinar for members of the Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Child and Adolescent TB Centre discusses the guidance that has been given to programmes from the World Health Organization (WHO), with global strategies for child and adolescent TB programmes to mitigate the impact…

• Watch the 'Best practices for a functioning national child and adolescent TB Technical Working Group: Maintaining and strengthening' through The Union YouTube channel.

• Watch the 'How to use high-quality child and adolescent TB data to develop and improve TB care cascades for child and adolescent TB and MDR TB' training webinar.

• Visit The Union's YouTube channel to watch 'Optimising diagnosis of TB in children: Balancing clinical and laboratory based methods to close the detection gap' and other webinar training.

• Watch 'Scaling up Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment (TPT) among children and adolescent, including children living with HIV and child contacts' on The Union YouTube channel.

• You can watch 'The role of chest X-ray TB in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB in children and adolescents' on The Union YouTube channel.

• Visit The Union's YouTube channel to watch 'Operationalising the new WHO guidelines on management of TB in children and adolescents'.

• Watch ‘Grand Rounds: A Review and Discussion of Challenging Clinical Child and Adolescent TB Cases' on The Union YouTube channel

• Diagnosis and Management of DR-TB in children and adolescents

• Nutrition and tuberculosis: considerations for national programs and child and adolescent tuberculosis

• Assessment of severity of tuberculosis disease in children and adolescents.

The authors of this Letter assess the impact of COVID-19 on a series of patients with Down syndrome. The preprint is free to read.

• On 12 October Myanmar’s Ministry of Health (MOH) announced the adoption of standardised packaging—also known as plain packaging—on all tobacco products, The comprehensive policy, which includes cigarettes, cheroots, cigars, and other smokeless tobacco products, requires…

• British American Tobacco (BAT) and its American unit, R.J. Reynolds, are undoubtedly having a very good week, but the same cannot be said of the public health sector, never mind the tobacco control community. While the former are reveling in the just announced U.S. Food and…