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On World Diabetes Day, José Luis Castro, The Union’s Executive Director and Chair of the NCD Alliance, speaks of working together to ensure all those living with NCDs live full, healthy lives.

Speaking at the Global NCD Alliance’s inaugural ceremony, taking place in…

Dear Friends, 

I am overwhelmed and outraged by these barbaric acts of terror in our city.  

We have reached out to all of the staff in our Paris headquarters and can confirm that everyone is safe and unharmed. 

As people who fight…

The NCD Alliance is convening the first-ever Global NCD Alliance Forum from 13 to 15 November 2015 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE) in partnership with local host organisation, Friends of Cancer Patients (FoCP).

Patron of the Forum is Her Highness, Sheikha…

The Union recently participated in a panel on the rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) at the Sanofi Partners in Patient Health Asia Pacific Forum 2015 in Singapore.  Speaking to patient advocates at the event, Matthew Coghlan, Director of The Union Asia…

According to the World Health Organization, an estimated eight million lives are lost due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) each year in the Southeast Asia region. That accounts for 55 per cent of all deaths in the region.

To prevent and control NCDs, The Union has…

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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.

“We have the ability and responsibility to address a growing public health crisis that needs urgent action. I am here to say we at The Union accept this challenge. We have to unite efforts in the fight against TB and diabetes. And we must take action now,” said The Union’s…

New data show 1 in 4 people with TB also have diabetes in hot spots in India

After convening a two-day Summit this week in Bali, the Indonesian Ministry of Health, together with The Union and the World Diabetes Foundation, today signed the Bali Declaration, uniting…

Tobacco packs in Nepal now have 90 per cent of their surface area covered with hard-hitting pictures of the health impacts of tobacco use – the strongest tobacco control measure of its kind in the world. Shelves have been stacked with the new packs since the directive came…

An ambitious 24k run covering the seven hills of Edinburgh was held last month to raise funds for The Union's Centennial Campaign 2012­–2020.  Participants trained for several months in advance and tackled the challenge on 11 September. The formidable trail began at the…

Myra Wisotzky chose to work in public health “because it offered an opportunity to empower people to engage in the health system” and began to focus that energy on tobacco control when she was asked to lead a start-up venture, the Coalition for a Smoke-Free Valley in…

The National Press Foundation has announced the journalist fellows who will be travelling to Cape Town in December to attend the J2J Lung Health Training Programme and the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health. 

Fifteen journalists have been selected from a…

India’s Ministry of Health has announced that pictorial health warnings covering 85 per cent of the display surface of all tobacco products will now be introduced in April 2016.

First issued in October last year, this bold directive to protect public health has been…

Today, the World Health Organization released new guidelines on when to start antiretroviral therapy (ART) and pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV. This is a significant step towards improving and saving lives, since the new guidelines stipulate that ART should begin immediately…

Project Axshya, an innovative – and enormous – five-year project designed to improve access to TB diagnosis and treatment in India, has been approved by The Global Fund to continue through 2017 under the New Funding Model. The decision was based on the consistently high…

Seven health professional organisations in Indonesia have joined together to sign a consensus statement on tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus – two diseases whose inter-relationship is causing great concern.

In 2014 there were 387 million people with diabetes, 77…

‘We know that we are making significant progress because the tobacco industry has really stepped up its game, challenging everything we do,’ says Dr Fouad Aslam, The Union’s focal point for tobacco control in Pakistan. The country’s high and Supreme Court dockets…

In an historic moment for the non-communicable disease (NCD) community, world leaders formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the United Nations in New York on 25 September. These 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets will drive…

At an event in New York, USA, (Thursday, 24 September) to celebrate the important milestone of the inclusion of NCDs in the Post-2015 Agenda being adopted at the UN General Assembly this week, Executive Director of The Union, José Luis Castro, formally assumed the role of…

As part of the Call to Action for a TB-Free India, representatives from 46 civil society organisations working on TB prevention and care met in New Delhi to discuss the steps necessary to achieve a TB-Free India and the vital role of civil society in this effort. The meeting…

3,000 researchers, health professionals, government officials and activists sectors to convene in Cape Town on 2–6 December 2015

2nd Global TB Summit to precede the conference

The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) will host…