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The Union’s Department of Tobacco Control participated in a two-day workshop in March to support the passing and implementation of a law that would ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS) in Peru. The Union’s legal advisor for tobacco control, Gustavo Soñora…

The Union launched a new observational study investigating tuberculosis transmission in children in February. Close to 2,000 children under five years of age will be enrolled in the research, which is taking place in four francophone African countries:  Benin, Burkina…

The Union Zimbabwe Office and the Health Journalists Association of Zimbabwe (HEJAZ) have launched a partnership and mentoring programme to increase awareness of TB, multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and TB-HIV, and to empower journalists to report on these and other related…

The Structured Operational Research and Training IniTiative (SORT IT) courses, delivered by The Union and partner Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), have received an A+ rating in a 2015 evaluation by the funder, the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID…

The Union and the University of Aberdeen

A toolkit for completing smoke-free compliance assessments of cafes, bars, restaurants and other hospitality venues using low-cost equipment. The method can be used anywhere in the world; it was tested in low and middle…

The New Year is a time to look forward to challenges ahead and to reflect on progress made in the previous year. The remarkable achievements of 2016 were testament to our staff and membership who deliver The Union’s life-changing work…

 A new year’s message from…

The Union North America Region Conference… Enabling global conversations on lung health

A message from José Luis Castro, Executive Director, The Union  

Between 22-25 February, the 21st Annual Conference of The Union North America Region (NAR) assembled…

The 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health on 26–29 October in Liverpool, UK offers opportunities for companies and organisations to build partnerships with delegates from more than 100 countries by becoming exhibitors or sponsors.  

The exhibition area…

The Union is actively calling for members to renew their commitment to the organisation in a year that promises to be one of the most significant in its history.

In a letter to stakeholders, Dr E Jane Carter, President of The Union, said, 'In 2016, all of us…

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…