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STOP finds Big Tobacco front group still spending millions on spin, not science
The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World’s 2019 tax return provides further evidence that it operates primarily as a publicity function of tobacco giant Philip Morris International.The Union backs calls for harmful products including tobacco to be declared non-essential within pandemic responses
Legally binding policies on tobacco control, NCD prevention and responding COVID-19 must be created and implemented for greater transparency, accountability, monitoring and enforcement in order to achieve good health for all.At 73rd World Health Assembly, The Union urges Member States to prioritise TB care and treatment during the pandemic
The Union statement is reproduced here in fullNew devices could transform COVID-19 patient treatment and protect health care workers
Studies on two innovative new devices have been published today by The Union. The development of these devices, a negative pressure procedural tent and a portable helmet device, has the potential to protect healthcare workers and transform the care of COVID-19…
Rapid development of a portable negative pressure procedural tent
A new tent system has been designed to provide healthcare workers separation and protection from exhaled droplets and aerosols, while allowing contact and support for procedures.
Rapid development of a novel portable negative pressure device
A portable, negative pressure environment is one means of confronting these challenges, and could offer benefits to patients, healthcare workers, and institutions alike.
More investment and greater collective efforts needed now if global TB preventive treatment targets are to be met
National TB programmes must plan and launch a systematic and invigorated drive to boost contact investigation, TB Preventative Treatment and treatment for TB.COVID-19 in Africa: preparing for the storm
In response to COVD-19, Africa should develop robust collaborative research programmes, funded by African governments and partners, to include epidemiological, health system, implementation, clinical trials, immunological and virological…
Study shows regimen for short-course preventive therapy for TB for children is valuable alternative
Results from the TITI Study, published in the IIJTLD, demonstrates that a three-month rifampicin-isoniazid (3RH) regimen was found to be a valuable alternative to the six-month isoniazid (6H) regimen for preventing TB in young children.STOP findings expose tobacco industry exploitation of sustainability to improve image and profits
STOP reveals tobacco industry 'greenwashing' tactics - whereby companies engage with sustainability initiatives to distract from their environmentally destructive business activities.“The need to bring zoonotic TB to the front burner, both in Nigeria and globally, has always inspired me.”
Prof Simeon Cadmus, Professor at the Centre for Control and Prevention of Zoonoses at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, is Chair of The Union’s Zoonotic TB Sub-section.Message from the Executive Director
The transformative power of data to diagnose, treat and prevent TB
Message from the Executive Director, 29 April 2020
Like many of us in the global health community, I am increasingly concerned by the potential impact of COVID-19 on people affected by…
Dr Sean Wasserman, winner of the Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize, profiled in The Lancet
The Lancet has profiled Sean Wasserman: rising star in TB-HIV research and medicine, as part of Dr Wasserman’s prize for winning the Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize in 2019.Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine and the COVID-19 pandemic: responsible stewardship is needed
Letter highlighting that responsible stewardship of the bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic is urgently needed.
Transforming essential services for tuberculosis during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from New York City
To ensure that scientific research of immediate concern is shared as rapidly as possible, The Union is fast-tracking accepted articles from the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) and publishing them in full on our website, prior to their…
Union led paper says TB prevention has to be better embraced, properly implemented and scaled up
A new article discussing the research and innovation needed to improve the uptake and delivery of TB preventive therapy has been published by The Union’s Centre for Operational Research.Successful treatment of patients severely ill with COVID-19
To ensure that scientific research of immediate concern is shared as rapidly as possible, The Union is fast-tracking accepted articles from the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) and publishing them in full on our website, prior to their…
Concern over a COVID-19-related BCG shortage
To ensure that scientific research of immediate concern is shared as rapidly as possible, The Union is fast-tracking accepted articles from the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) and publishing them in full on our website, prior to their…
Union warns the COVID-19 pandemic must not divert attention from the needs of children and adolescents in TB-endemic African countries
If resources are diverted away from child and adolescent TB programmes in order to fight COVID-19, the consequences for children and adolescents in the African region needing TB and multidrug-resistant TB care each year could be devastating.Indonesian civil society calls for urgent action on tobacco control to reduce impact of COVID-19
42 Indonesian organisations have signed a letter to the President of Indonesia and the national government calling for strong action to address the relationship between tobacco and the virus.Mask wearing to complement social distancing and save lives during COVID-19
To ensure that scientific research of immediate concern is shared as rapidly as possible, The Union is fast-tracking accepted articles from the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) and publishing them in full on our website, prior to their…
Union study in Zimbabwe shows reduction of TB case notifications with scale-up of antiretroviral and isoniazid preventive therapies
An operational research study, published in BMJ Open, shows reduction in the total number of notified cases of tuberculosis disease by 66 percent at the national level in Zimbabwe over the study period.Impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis services in India
Letter to the editors of the IJTLD addresses the impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis services in India, and the need to ensure the availability of key equipment to care for patients and to ensure the safety of health care workers.
Sustaining essential healthcare in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
To ensure that scientific research of immediate concern is shared as rapidly as possible, The Union is fast-tracking accepted articles from the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) and publishing them in full on our website, prior to their…
Union statement on World Health Organization funding
The Union expresses its indignation at the decision by US President Trump to announce the suspension of its funding of the World Health Organization.