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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 cartridges can be used to detect COVID-19 in approximately 45 minutes in Cepheid’s more than 23,000 automated GeneXpert® Systems worldwide.

Letter to the IJTLD regarding the data that will be need to be collected in African health facilities for monitoring COVID-19.

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.

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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 TB

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.

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.

Statement from Her Imperial Highness The Crown Princess of Japan on World TB Day 2020.

• “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…

The Union stands in solidarity and with resilience in the fight against two airborne diseases: TB and COVID-19

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.

Dr Jeremiah Chakaya Muhwa, immediate past-President of The Union (2016-2019), remains personally dedicated to the common goal of TB elimination.

• 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…

A curated collection of featured content from The Union’s monthly, peer-reviewed scientific journal, the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) is now free to mark World TB Day 2020.

• COVID-19: "The Union remains committed to fulfilling its mission to provide health solutions to those most at-risk”

  José Luis Castro, 19 March 2020

  As the world adjusts to the realities of the new coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, The Union remains committed…

• 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…

The Union undertakes to use its resources, including its membership network, its conferences, webinars and publications, its communications team and its technical team to support the global response to the challenge of 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…

In-depth analysis revealing the scale of Philip Morris International (PMI)’s current campaign to deceive the public, infiltrate health policy and profit from an epidemic.

In 2017, Bogor became the first Indonesian city to implement a point-of-sale tobacco display ban as part of its smokefree law.

The Union is joining today’s celebrations of the 15th anniversary of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Geneva, Switzerland

• Technical Consultants of The Union

  This is our fourth position statement on e-cigarettes (earlier documents in 2013, 2015, and 2018 addressed e-cigarettes and HTPs separately). In 2020, The Union feels it imperative to point out that while the current discourse – in…

The Union welcomes the announcement that a new global collaboration of philanthropic, non-profit and private sector organisations will work together to accelerate the development of novel treatment regimens capable of treating all forms of TB.

This three-day scientific conference brings together experts of national and international renown to focus on topics of importance to public and respiratory health, with particular emphasis on TB and lung disease.