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  • Global Strategy for TB Research and Innovation is adopted by WHO Member States

    The Union welcomes the adoption of the global strategy for TB research and innovation by Member States of the World Health Organization through a written silence procedure of the 73rd session of the World Health Assembly last week.

  • Early Career Researcher Award

    Established in 2025, the Early Career Researcher Award recognises of outstanding and promising early career research in the fields of TB and lung health. The goal of this award is to encourage and reward Early Career Researchers in the fields of tuberculosis and lung health.…

  • Tobacco Control in Philippines

    17.3 million adults (28% of the population) use tobacco in the Philippines. Men (48%) have higher rates of smoking than women (9%). 55% of youth (ages 13-15) and 40% of adults are exposed to second-hand smoke in their homes. As a consequence, tobacco kills approximately 87,…

  • Tobacco tax

    OUR IMPACT: 3.87 billion people in 28 countries through higher tobacco tax*

  • The Union shares protocol to measure the impact of COVID-19 on people with TB and HIV/AIDS

    The Centre for Operational Research has made publicly available a protocol for a project in sub-Saharan Africa to determine the impact of COVID-19 on TB case detection and HIV testing, diagnosis and care through strengthened real-time surveillance.

  • Tobacco advertising

    The Union has helped 4.13 billion people in 28 countries through advertising bans.

  • Labelling and packaging

    OUR IMPACT: 3.29 billion people in 32 countries through graphic health warnings*

  • Smokefree

    OUR IMPACT: 3.69 billion people in 37 countries through smokefree laws*

  • Join The Union as a tobacco control member

    As well as being a scientific institute, The Union has members in 147 countries around the world. From clinical researchers, university faculty, students, and health ministry officials to activists, advocates, nurses and allied health professionals, plus numerous global health…

  • What we do

    • The Union's goal is to advance the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) – an international health treaty that provides a coordinated strategy to reduce tobacco use. Our work centres on the WHO’s MPOWER - a package of evidence-…

    • The Asia Pacific Cities Alliance for Tobacco Control and NCDs Prevention (APCAT) was established in 2016 by The Union Asia Pacific Office in Singapore as a network and forum for subnational leaders working to advance tobacco control in the region. Recognising that subnational…

  • The Union's Global Implementation Programme

    • The programme is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies under the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, which promotes evidence-based tobacco control policies in low- and middle-income countries around the world to combat the tobacco epidemic.

      In 2023, The…

  • Past Presidents of The Union

    The Union President is responsible for carrying out the decisions of the Board and ensuring the correct functioning of the organisation. 

  • Integrated HIV Care Programme - Myanmar

    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.

  • Community-Based MDR-TB Care Programme

    • Established in 2015, the Community-Based DR-TB Care Programme, partners with healthcare workers, nurses, and community volunteers to establish an extensive group of people equipped to provide drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) care and support services. It is implemented in…

  • TREAT TB

    Read more about TREAT TB (Technology, Research, Education and Technical Assistance for Tuberculosis), an ambitious initiative that was launched by The Union, seeking to contribute new knowledge regarding shorter, more tolerable treatment…

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  • Regional and Country Office Directors

  • Community Advisory Panel (UCAP)

    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.…

  • TREATS

    • 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…

  • Leadership

    • 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

  • Board of Directors

    • The Union's Board of Directors are elected by our 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.

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  • Conference Scientific Committee

    The Conference Scientific Committee coordinates the development of the scientific programme of The Union World Conference on Lung Health. , Members have a two year terms.

  • Management Team

    • 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.

  • About The Union UPDATED

    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).

  • Union study supports shorter treatment for multidrug-resistant TB

    • 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…