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Tuberculosis is not just a medical disease: it also has a significant socio-economic impact on patients and their families. The cost of treatment and loss of livelihood due to TB can lead to catastrophic expenditure and put patients and families deeply into debt. While free…

Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, celebrated her country’s progress on tobacco control at the first-ever South East Asian Speakers’ Summit on Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, held in Dhaka.

In her speech to senior representatives from five…

The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases at WHO (TDR), The Union and its partners in the Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT) have been awarded a $500,000 grant to help Sierra Leone and Liberia use operational research…

The Union Office in Myanmar hosted an interactive information session on tuberculosis in a high school in Kyauk Mee, a town outside of Mandalay, this month as part of the Programme to Increase Catchment of Tuberculosis Suspects (PICTS). This session, attended by some 500…

The latest issue of Public Health Action includes a retrospective cohort study of 2013 records from a primary healthcare clinic in Zimbabwe, which showed that, of patients who were diagnosed with both HIV and TB, 90 percent were initiated on antiretroviral treatment…

CSR Intervention Critical to Reduce India’s Tuberculosis Burden

Aiming to fast-track India’s goal to end tuberculosis (TB), the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) Foundation hosted a conference on 2 February in Bengaluru inviting the…

The submission period for research abstracts and proposals for symposia, workshops and post-graduate courses to be considered for the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health is now open, with a submission deadline of 22 March 2016.

The conference will be held in…

Tobacco use is the single greatest cause of preventable death worldwide, claiming nearly six million lives each year. Many of these are cancer-related.

Although tobacco use remains the greatest risk factor for cancer, consumption is still on the increase. The number of…

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The Union in partnership with experts from TB endemic countries has produced for NTPs a desk guide of child TB management for health workers aimed at the district or more peripheral level of care.

Research carried out in six cities with dangerous levels of air pollution indicates that air quality inside venues that allow smoking is even worse than outdoors. The study, published today in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, was co-authored by tobacco…

A new course on building sustainable funds for tobacco control programmes has been successfully piloted in Bangladesh.

The pilot launched the next phase of The Union’s innovative work to help develop sustainable funding mechanisms that are tailored for the legal and…

Using a colourful, illustrated Patients’ Charter, Project Axshya sensitised just over 30,000 TB patients in 2015. The charter, which has been translated into 19 regional languages, empowers patients by ensuring that they understand their rights, make informed choices and…

While all issues of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease become open access six months after publication, authors who require it may now have their articles published as immediate open access for a fee of 1500 euros.

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Indian parliamentarians across party lines met on 21 December 2015 to demand and sustain high-level domestic commitment to end TB in India. As a result, honorable members of parliament from both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha pledged to drive political, administrative and…

The Union Zimbabwe and Uganda offices recently received a two-year grant from the World Diabetes Foundation, which will support the integration of tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus care in the two countries.  The overall goal of the project is to pilot the feasibility…

The Union Zimbabwe Office has been awarded a Global Fund New Funding Model Sub-Recipient grant for Tuberculosis Community Systems Strengthening, proving additional funding to complement traditional funding streams from the United States Agency for International Development (…

The Union Zimbabwe Office delivered a postgraduate course for the first time at the 46th Union World Lung Conference on Lung Health in Cape Town, South Africa. The course introduced a user-friendly, step-by-step guide for healthcare workers on the collection, analysis and use…

To build research capacity in the Pacific region, a SORT IT operational research (OR) course is being offered under the aegis of The Union Asia Pacific. The SORT IT programme offers an intensive course in operational research that consists of three six-day modules offered…

Indonesia was the patron for the recent Bali summit on TB and diabetes organised by The Union and World Diabetes Foundation, as a country deeply impacted by this looming co-epidemic. It ranks fifth in terms of TB incidence globally, but there are approximately 9.1 million…

Each year The Union offers technical courses to strengthen capacity in clinical and programmatic management of all forms of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) at locations around the world.  The five-day International Course on the Clinical Management of Drug-Resistant…

Dear Union friends and colleagues,

2015 is a year that all of us in public health have focused on since the beginning of the century – the moment when we would stop and assess our progress towards our joint Millennium Development Goals and set new ones in the agenda…

An image capturing the moment a magistrate orders the public burning of illegal tobacco advertising in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has been selected as one of the The Lancet’s Highlights for 2015.

The striking photograph was selected as ‘capturing a health issue in a powerful…

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) are challenging tuberculosis control globally. Early identification of patients with MDR-TB and XDR-TB and the complex pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance are key to providing…

The Union mourns the passing of Kraig Klaudt. He was a leading advocate and visionary in the fight to end TB and other killers, and his efforts over many years have left a lasting impact on global public health. 

Kraig was instrumental in popularising the concept…

Dr Sarabjit Chadha leads the largest project The Union has ever undertaken – and it serves
the country with the world’s greatest TB burden, India. Project Axshya’s mission is to strengthen TB control through civil society engagement and improve access to services for…