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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…

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…