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• On April 28th, Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies voted unanimously to strengthen its tobacco control law; 415 Congressional members supported an amendment that would make the country 100% smokefree and place a comprehensive ban on all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and…

• A huge body of research demonstrates that tobacco growing is neither safe—it results in green tobacco sickness—nor lucrative, with the World Bank noting that most Indonesian farmers rely only partially on tobacco income. Nonetheless, the industry frequently uses farmers as…

• With support from The Union, Mexico’s National Institute of Health conducted a systematic literature review of nearly one thousand articles published between 2017 and 2020. Focused on how new products impact vast issues—conflict of interest, cessation, recruitment, physical…

• Indonesia is unduly burdened by tobacco: it has a has a 63% male smoking prevalence, and smoking causes approximately 235,000 deaths each year. There is also significant evidence that smokers are at greater risk of more advanced COVID-19. The infectious disease—it had claimed…

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• India’s Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act 2003 (COTPA) bars tobacco company corporate social responsibility (CSR) as does Article 13 of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which notes that such activities are a form of…

• The Union in partnership with TB Alert, WHO Regional Office for Europe and the Stop TB partnership today released a new guide “Psychosocial counselling and treatment adherence support for people affected by tuberculosis (TB)”. This new Union guide on psychosocial support…

• A new technical guide ‘Psychosocial counselling and treatment adherence support for people affected by tuberculosis’ has been created by TB Alert, with support from The Union, the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO EURO) and the Stop TB Partnership (…

The authors conducted a retrospective analysis to determine the proportion of asymptomatic COVID-19 in the workplace during lockdown in early 2020. Nearly 45% of cases were asymptomatic, which has implications for interventions, such as…

• On 8 April, Muhammadiyah, one of Indonesia’s largest, most influential civil society organisations, organised a high-level meeting to consolidate tobacco control efforts and support government’s strategies to curb tobacco use. Participants emphasized that tobacco use is…

• At a meeting on 31 March, newly appointed Makassar Mayor Mr Ramadhan Pomanto urged the 1.5 million residents of Eastern Indonesia’s largest city to work together on a COVID-19 recovery program. “There are 11 key elements of the Makassar recovery program,” he explained, noting…

In this recently accepted article for IJTLD, the authors performed a cohort-comparison study to assess Pretomanid in a regimen to treat drug-resistant TB: patients receiving the BPaL regimen had a significantly better 6-month post-treatment…

In this recently accepted Review for IJTLD, the authors summarise the evidence available at a country level, identifying broad mechanisms by which COVID-19 may modify TB burden and mitigation efforts.

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• Tobacco industry interference in public health policies is not new but has, over the past few years, significantly intensified in Mexico. To document the scale and scope of the industry’s tactics, Ethos Public Lab, a Union grantee, spent a year conducting five comprehensive…

• The Jharkhand legislative assembly approved, on 22 March, an important amendment to national legislation—The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003 (COTPA)—that will strengthen tobacco control and protect the state’s 39 million people.

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In the lead up to World TB Day, an article in PHA calls for increased funding and renewed leadership to coordinate the global fight against TB. A relatively small investment in TB control has the potential to transform TB care, saving millions…

• In 2015 the Bangladesh government began to levy a 1 percent Health Development Surcharge (HDS) for all tobacco products, an amount of over BDT 600 Cr (~$71M) per year. The funds collected were intended to support key government programs including tobacco control and NCD…

• The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), together with the University of Cape Town and The Union, pays tribute to Professor Stephen Lawn with a lecture in his honour. This year's memorial lecture entitled "The ongoing clinical challenges posed by…

This study reports on the rate of co-infection with influenza A in a cohort of COVID-19 patients and its impact on the clinical course and outcome.

• Convening 229 participants, Jakarta’s provincial government held a virtual inter-departmental seminar on 18 February to enhance a whole of government approach to tobacco control, even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The session built accountability and commitments from all…

The authors investigate the potential impact of COVID-19 on people with RR-TB.