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Early in 2015, the South African Health Minister and Chair of the Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, announced that he was introducing 100% regular screening for tuberculosis for all inmates in South African prisons, as well as for their…

The Union North America Region and the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association are holding a joint 20th annual conference in Denver, Colorado (USA) on 24-27 February 2016.

This year's agenda includes wide-ranging clinical, scientific and programmatic topics.…

A post-graduate course on “Using Epidemiology for Data-Driven Decision-Making in Tuberculosis Programs” will be offered in conjunction with the NAR conference on 24 February 2015 in Denver, Colorado.

This jointly sponsored course put on by The Union and the US TB…

Prof Denis A Mitchison, one of the great pioneers of tuberculosis research was awarded The Union medal, at the Inaugural Session of the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Cape Town, South Africa. The Union Medal is bestowed on members who have made an outstanding…

Awards sponsored by The Union and its partners were presented throughout the week at the plenary sessions of the 46th Union World Conference in Cape Town.

The Karel Styblo Public Health Prize: Stephen M Graham (Australia) The Karel Styblo Public Health Prize…

At the General Assembly in Cape Town, three longstanding Union members received Honorary Member status.  This lifetime status is granted to individuals who have become distinguished through active participation in The Union's activities and the fulfillment of its goals.…

A New Agenda has shaped the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Cape Town and inspired a community of over 4,000 delegates to take up the fight of this new era. 

As well as being the largest World Lung Health conference to date, this year’s event offered…

Plenary session III on Sunday explored how governments are innovating to transform under-funded areas of public health through taxing products that harm health, and earmarking these increased revenues for specific programmes.

The three speakers discussed the current…

Wars, conflict and persecution have displaced more people today than at any other time since records began. Nearly 60 million people are now refugees or internally displaced in their own countries. The war in Syria, now in its fifth year, is the largest driver of displacement…

A series of new studies on TB among incarcerated persons, bovine strains of TB found in cattle that are transmitting to humans, and TB in children show that key affected populations are facing unique risks. These risks must be addressed in order to end TB by 2035, as called…

Initial results show 80% success rate using 9-month treatment option for MDR-TB, compared with 24-month treatment standard

Thursday, 3 December 2015 (Cape Town, South Africa) – New findings from clinical studies presented at the 46th Union World Conference on Lung…

An op-ed by Paula I Fujiwara and Linda-Gail Bekker, reprinted from South Africa's Mail and Guardian

Just last month, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released new data showing that, despite being curable, tuberculosis (TB) has overtaken HIV and AIDS as the world’s…

During a press conference on Wednesday at the 46th Union World on Lung Health in Cape Town, TB Alliance and its partners announced the availability of the first child-friendly TB medicines.

Each year, at least one million children get TB and 140,000 die from the…

Day two of the Global TB Summit (30 November) began with a site visit to Ubuntu Clinic, a facility supported by Médecins Sans Frontières, which provides HIV, AIDS and TB-related treatment and support services, and ended with a strong endorsement of the Stop TB…

INAUGURAL SESSION

Thursday, 3 December 2015, 17:30–19:00Auditorium I, Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC)

Welcome to the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health

E Jane Carter, President of The Union

Inaugural lecture: Turning the…

Dr von Groote-Bidlingmaier, a specialist physician in Internal Medicine and Pulmonology, gave a presentation on the research agenda of Cape Town's Brooklyn Chest Hospital to parliamentarians who visited the hospital on Sunday as part of the 2nd Global TB Summit.

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MPs from nearly 30 countries started arriving in Cape Town on Saturday for the Global TB Summit – a series of sessions held from 28–30 November aiming to identify priorities for addressing TB issues, share common goals and pursue the research of new diagnostics and vaccines…

There is a growing national and international need for operational research (OR) and related capacity building in global public health. Since 2009, The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and Médecins sans Frontières-Brussels-Luxembourg (MSF…

“There are substantial barriers to accessing TB services for those who live in the townships and villages of Yunnan Province,” says Dr Chiang Chen-Yuan, The Union’s Asia Pacific expert in both TB and MDR-TB. “This results in long delays in the diagnosis and treatment of TB…

Prof Rudolf Ferlinz, who served as President of The Union from 1991 to 1994, passed away this year at the age of 87 in his hometown of Salzburg Austria. One of his lasting contributions to The Union was to change the World Conferences from an event that took place every four…

The Union, the Peruvian Ministry of Health and Janssen, the pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson, joined forces to host a recent workshop facilitated by, Dr A José Caminero from the MDR-TB Unit of the Department of TB and HIV.

More than 50 members of the…

As a pulmonologist working in India, Dr Rana Singh came across people with lung diseases caused or exacerbated by tobacco use, day-in, day-out. Many of his patients had tuberculosis.

‘India has the highest burden of tuberculosis and the second highest burden…

Imbizo community space featuring performance and discussion will be open to the general public.

An opening plenary session on HIV/TB coinfection on Friday, 4 December featuring UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé, Global Fund Executive Director Mark Dybul and the…