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The Union Board of Directors is pleased to announce that ACC Liverpool in Liverpool, UK has been chosen to host the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health in 2016.

The event is the premier annual international conference for researchers, health programme managers…

The 68th World Health Assembly to be held on 18-26 May 2015

This coming week Mr José Luis Castro, Executive Director of The Union, and Dr I.D. Rusen, Senior Vice President – Research and Development, will represent The Union at the 68th World Health Assembly in Geneva…

The village of Hasegaonwadi in the Indian state of Maharashtra was declared a model Axshya village by the Latur district administration on World TB Day, 24 March 2015. It is one of many Axshya villages being established across India.

Axshya ‘model villages’ are…

As a young psychiatrist in India, Dr Jamie Tonsing worked in an institution where many patients were also afflicted with tuberculosis, and this brought her into contact with several WHO consultants who had been enlisted to assist in launching the country’s new Revised…

The Honourable Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, India, Shri J. P. Nadda has launched a nationwide campaign, TB Free India, to unite stakeholders to defeat TB in India.

Speaking at the launch on 23 April 2015 in New Delhi, he said, “The Government of India…

The Union’s Department of Tobacco Control is developing a new step-by-step guide for governments tackling the rising pandemic of non-communicable diseases [NCDs], including cancers, chronic lung diseases, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. With 80% of premature deaths…

Dr Riitta Dlodlo MD, DMCH, MPH has been promoted from her position as TB-HIV Programme Coordinator to Director of the Department of Tuberculosis and HIV. In this capacity, she’ll be responsible for managing all of The Union’s TB and HIV activities, with a large and expanding…

World Asthma Day is held each year on the first Tuesday of May to draw attention to and build support for a lung disease that affects up to 334 million people, according to the Global Burden of Diseases Study, published in 2012.

Asthma is an inflammation of the…

监测与评估培训，是国际防痨和肺部疾病联合会开发的国际管理发展计划系列培训中的一门课程。2015年3月23-27日在厦门举办了中国首次“监测与评估”培训班。22名学员来自中国政府机构、中国疾病预防控制中心和省市疾病预防控制中心、非政府组织和研究所等。培训鼓励学员参与的互动教学为主。通过培训学习，学员们掌握了项目监测、审查和评估的概念，亲自参与制定了烟草项目监测和评估的指标，了解了实施及汇报监测与评估结果的流程。

As one of the International Management Development Programme (IMDP) courses offered by The Union, the Monitoring & Evaluation training course was held in Xiamen on 23-27 March 2015. A total of 22 participants from Chinese government agencies, China CDC and local CDCs,…

The Union North America (UNA) in New York City has appointed several key new staff: two who are brand new to the organisation – and two well-known figures who have made outstanding contributions in other roles in the past.

 Dr Neil W Schluger, MD has been…

The Union will reopen its office in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Kinshasa this spring to support a new Challenge TB grant that will focus on improving access to high-quality, patient-centred care for TB, TB-HIV and MDR-TB; preventing TB transmission and disease…

Some 1,500 delegates attended the 28th Union Conference of The Middle East Region in Cairo, Egypt on 24-27 March 2015. The event was held in conjunction with the 56th International Congress of the Egyptian Society of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis (ESCT) at the Fairmont…

Australia’s leading TB experts, researchers and health advocates met with Federal Parliamentarians on the eve of World TB Day to launch the Australasian TB Forum and to call for TB elimination in the Asia Pacific region.

Dr Justin Denholm (Chair of the…

At a colourful World TB Day event in the Philippines' Batangas City, the Secretary of the Department of Health, the Provincial Governor, members of the Philippine Coalition Against Tuberculosis (PhilCAT) and TB survivors joined forces to call for an end to TB.

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Although effective therapy exists for treating asthma, it is presently not available for the majority of individuals with asthma living in low-income countries. This is due to a lack of quality-assured, affordable essential medicines, of well-organised health services, and of…

The Union in collaboration with World Health Organization has launched an interactive online course, Childhood TB for Healthcare Workers. The six-module curriculum covers how to diagnose, treat and prevent childhood TB, including how to perform contact screening. The modules…

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For more than 20 years, Edith Alarcon has demonstrated the wide range of contributions that nurses make to tuberculosis control.  In both her native Peru and internationally, she is recognised as a…

Now in its second year, the annual programme recognises young leaders in TB research and furthers a global health partnership committed to fighting TB in high-burden regions.

Honorees will receive grant to attend an international training in TB clinical management and…

Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al-Nahayan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, The World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) will officially open on Tuesday with an address by His Highness at the Inaugural Ceremony at 19:00 GST. The…

Her Royal Highness Princess Dina Mired, South Africa Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, Ireland Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Dr James Reilly TD, WHO Director General Margaret Chan, US Surgeon General Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy, Michael R Bloomberg, to address…