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The Union's Community Advisory Panel (UCAP) is a voluntary group of engaged members of affected communities and civil society who advise The Union’s board and management on how to best address the needs of affected communities and civil society across the organisation.…

Through its Integrated HIV Care (IHC) Programme, The Union Office in Myanmar currently provides services to nearly 34,000 People Living with HIV, more than 33,400 of which are taking antiretroviral treatment.

• TB and HIV are the leading infectious causes of death worldwide. For people living with HIV, TB is the most significant co-infection, 40 percent of HIV deaths in 2016 were due to TB. TB continues to disproportionately affect the most vulnerable individuals and communities. If…

• The ‘universal test and treat’ approach – whereby people in high burden areas are actively offered TB and HIV testing and linkage to care – has been proposed by the public health community as a strategy to achieve steep reductions in HIV and TB.

  To encourage countries…

• Colleen, 22, was diagnosed with TB through the TREATS study and is now on treatment. In Bloekombos, Cape Town, South Africa. Photo credit: Will Boase / The Union

• TREATS is now measuring whether the PopART intervention was similarly successful in reducing the prevalence and incidence of TB in the same communities – whilst also raising awareness of TB and HIV through community engagement and linking anyone who tested positive for TB or…

• The Union's elected leadership is comprised of the Board of Directors, the Conference Scientific Committee, and the Community Advisory Panel (UCAP)

• The Union's Management Team, headed up by the Executive Director, comprises the Heads of Managed Units, Scientific Departments and Country Offices, as well as a core team of Central Services.

• Our members inform, support and help steer the organisation

• The Board Members are elected by the organisation's membership. It welcomes appointments from all races, colour, nationality or ethnic origin, gender, disability, marital status, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation or any other condition that cannot be justified.…

The Conference Scientific Committee coordinates the development of the scientific programme of The Union World Conference on Lung Health.

• The Union's Management Team, headed up by the Executive Director, comprises the Heads of Managed Units, Scientific Departments and Country Offices, as well as a core team of Central Services.

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• Until recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) TB treatment guidelines recommended treatment regimens that lasted 20-24 months and required frequent injections, which posed a significant burden both for patients and for health systems tasked with administering treatment…

• Given the duration and poor outcomes from the long MDR-TB treatment, The Union established he world’s first multi-country randomised clinical trial to test the efficacy, safety and economic impact of shortened MDR-TB treatment regimens, the Standardised Treatment Regimen of…

• Victorien lives in Benin. He contracted TB at 18 years old, but after treatment, he was diagnosed with MDR-TB, at which point he was included in the nine-month study. He finished his treatment in 2013 and went on to studying a chemistry, biology, geology joint degree at…

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  In parallel to the STREAM trial, The Union implemented an operational research study into the STREAM stage one, short course regimen in nine countries in francophone Africa.

  The study began in January 2013 and was concluded in 2016. The objectives were…

• In order to share scientific research of immediate concern as rapidly as possible, The Union is fast-tracking the publication of certain accepted articles from the IJTLD and PHA and publishing them in full on our website, prior to their publication in the Journals. …

The Union’s approach to tackling the above global problems is unique; we start with developing knowledge through global research (KNOW), which we then share as widely as possible (SHARE) and turn that into the real action that is needed to save lives on a local level (ACT).

The Union welcomes today’s announcement that a new treatment developed by TB Alliance has been approved by the European Commission for some of the most drug-resistant forms of TB

In support of World Lung Cancer Day, FIRS, of which The Union is a founding member, calls for more awareness and understanding of lung cancer risk factors, as well as the importance of early screening and treatment

The Union’s Senior Program Manager for STOP

A letter to the editors of the IJTLD arguing that we should avoid restrictions on children’s lives during any new waves of COVID-19 – and avoid school closures.

This month, The Union's Past President, Dr Jeremiah Chakaya Muhwa, writes a special feature about the Black Lives Matter movement.  

An article co-authored by The Union has estimated that 186,000 new tuberculosis (TB) cases and 88,000 additional TB deaths could be expected in India in 2020 as a consequence of the COVID-19 lockdown.

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