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How to demystify COVID-19 and reduce social stigma
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…
Face masks – a sustainable measure to mitigate 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…
African Union of Consumers appeals to governments and health specialists to protect Africa from the devastating consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic
A press release, issued by The Union’s Daouda Adam, Chairperson of the African Union of Consumers on its behalf, called attention to attempts by pharmaceutical companies to use Africans as test subjects for a possible vaccine against COVID-19.Collaboration in TB and COVID-19 control in Moscow
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…
Preparing national tuberculosis control programmes for 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…
Predictive models for COVID-19-related deaths and infections
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…
Helping Africa to breathe when COVID-19 strikes
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…
Survey reveals 60 percent of SORT-IT alumni are currently involved with the COVID-19 response
Alumni trained through the Structured Operational Research Training Initiative are using their training to tackle the pandemic.The Union’s statement on COVID-19 and Smoking
The Union is concerned about COVID-19’s impact on the world’s 1.3 billion smokers.Serology-positive but minimally symptomatic COVID-19 may still cause lung injury and lung function impairment
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…
Critical changes to services for TB patients during the COVID-19 pandemic
Letter to the IJTLD outlining key adaptations to TB service delivery that should be considered in high TB burden settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.The Union’s Global Implementation Programme launches in Pakistan with Smoke Free Karachi
The Smoke Free Karachi initiative has launched in Pakistan to ensure that the city’s citizens are protected from the harms of second-hand smoke.Tackling the threat of COVID-19 in Africa: an urgent need for practical planning
Letter to the IJTLD highlighting that it will be crucial to quickly develop practical national plans in Africa with clear objectives and strategic interventions to tackle the threat of COVID-19.Global Indigenous Stop TB Initiative working group calls for solidarity on World TB Day
The GISI working group, part of the TB section of The Union, issued a statement calling for solidarity as the global community fights the novel coronavirus which causes COVID-19.The Global Drug Facility includes cartridges for rapid testing of COVID-19 in their catalogue
The cartridges can be used to detect COVID-19 in approximately 45 minutes in Cepheid’s more than 23,000 automated GeneXpert® Systems worldwide.Monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa: focusing on health facility admissions and deaths
Letter to the IJTLD regarding the data that will be need to be collected in African health facilities for monitoring COVID-19.In memoriam: Prof John F Murray, M.D
The Union is saddened to announce that Prof John F Murray passed away yesterday, Tuesday 24 March, in Paris of acute respiratory failure associated with COVID-19.Basic page: New innovations and strategy in TB prevention for people living with HIV in India
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Forum of International Respiratory Societies calls to advance prevention as critical strategy to end TB
FIRS and The Union call for urgent action globally to advance TB prevention through the rapid scale up of access to preventive treatment for TB infection for those most at risk of falling ill of TBAdapting a TB contact investigation strategy for COVID-19
Letter to the IJTLD regarding the use of contact investigation as an important strategy to detect and isolate infection sources and reduce continuing transmission of COVID-19.World TB Day statement on CEPHEID rapid testing for COVID-19
CEPHEID rapid testing for COVID-19 designed to operate on any of Cepheid's more than 23,000 automated GeneXpert® Systems worldwide, with a detection time of approximately 45 minutes.Her Imperial Highness The Crown Princess of Japan shares message of support on World TB Day
Statement from Her Imperial Highness The Crown Princess of Japan on World TB Day 2020.Message from the Executive Director
“On World TB Day, join me in calling on world leaders to ensure that the political will and funding we are seeing for COVID-19 continues well after this crisis is resolved.”
Message from the Executive Director, 24 March 2020
Every evening across Paris, my…
COVID-19 in focus on World TB Day: The Union stands in solidarity and with resilience in the fight against two airborne diseases - TB and COVID-19
The Union stands in solidarity and with resilience in the fight against two airborne diseases: TB and COVID-19Impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis control in China
Letter to the IJTLD regarding actions and strategies to combat COVID-19 in China and the potential adverse effects on the control of other infectious diseases, especially TB.