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• Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases and their four primary shared risk factors—tobacco, poor diet, physical inactivity, and excessive alcohol—plague the Caribbean, serving as leading causes of…

New, significant and innovative findings in TB, COVID19, Lung Health (Submissions closed; Notifications on acceptance/non acceptance sent)

• After nearly a decade, the commitment and perseverance of tobacco control advocates including The Union will dramatically alter Jakarta’s implementation of smokefree, TAPS bans, and tobacco product bans at point-of-sale locations. On 9 June, the Governor of Jakarta issued a…

• India has the highest burden of TB in the world. Global targets to end TB by 2030 will only be met if India plays its part - successfully treating 11.47 million people with TB, including 1.13 million children and 439,660 people with DR-TB; and initiating 6.9 million people on…

• On 1 June, The Union, in coordination with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Association of all Indonesia Health Offices (ADINKES), and the WHO held a high-level webinar to commemorate World No Tobacco Day and launch the WHO’s “Commit to Quit” campaign…

Inspire, engage and give a voice to the community (Submissions are closed; View Community Connect Schedule here)

Basic and translational TB research
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This desk guide outlines a comprehensive approach to respiratory health, which health facilities can adapt and implement in resource-limited settings. Its development was supported by a review committee consisting of Union members with…

• The Centre for Operational Research at The Union, working in close collaboration with the National TB Programme and National AIDS Programme in Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe as well as the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases at WHO (TDR) and Vital…

• The first edition of Basic occupational safety and health for respiratory diseases: A desk guide for health facilities outlines a comprehensive approach to respiratory health, which health facilities can adapt and implement in resource-limited settings. 

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• While all six of the World Health Organization’s cost-effective, high-impact MPOWER measures are critical to ending the global tobacco burden, the “O” in this acronym—“Offer help to quit tobacco”—has, to date, been under implemented. When the WHO issued its last Report on The…

• Earlier this week, Mr. Navid Ahmed Shaikh, Commissioner Karachi Division, directed his seven deputy commissioners to create district implementation and monitoring committees (DIMCs) and tobacco control cells (TCCs) in each of their respective districts. DIMCs and tobacco…

• The Union congratulates the Kathmandu Institute of Child Health (KIOCH) for rejecting a ‘donation’ of US$ 400,000 and declining a partnership offer from Surya Nepal Private Limited, the country’s largest tobacco company.

  The donation was offered for a new children’s…

• In its recently released (16 April) “Final Opinion on Electronic Cigarettes,” the European Union’s Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental, and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) highlights concerns about e-cigarettes and finds insufficient, or “weak,” evidence that they help…

• 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…