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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…

More than 1.2 million people die and 20-50 million people are severely injured in road traffic crashes around the world every year

The Union North America (UNA) has been named as one of eight Road Safety partners who will support the next phase of the Bloomberg…

The Union’s tobacco control activities in Latin America, Europe, Africa and South-East Asia have contributed to recent smokefree laws, new graphic health warnings and a smokeless tobacco ban.

SMOKEFREE LAWS

MEXICO: Oaxaca State’s new smokefree law will protect 3…

A surgeon who entered public health to work with NGOs and health ministries in several countries on HIV, TB, malaria and cyclone recovery, Dr Bala Thandan has now taken on the responsibility of running one of The Union’s largest endeavours – the Myanmar…

Dr Anthony Harries is Senior Advisor and Director of The Union’s Department of Research, and along with Dr Rony Zachariah of Médecins Sans Frontières and The Union’s Ajay Kumar, oversees the Center for Operational Research. In 2012, The Union and MSF entered into a global…

Conference theme to be Tobacco and Non-communicable Diseases 

The Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards for Global Tobacco Control and

The American Cancer Society's Luther R Terry Awards

to honour outstanding contributions to global tobacco control…

The Union is extraordinarily fortunate to welcome four respected, talented and innovative public health professionals to our leadership team. Bringing diverse and accomplished backgrounds to their new positions, they have joined us as Regional or Country Directors in the past…

Health care workers dealing with tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in war-torn Iraq recently participated in a five-day Union course on infection control (IC). Trainings specifically focused on IC are a relatively new endeavor for The Union and…

Dr Dermot Maher has been appointed the new Editor-in-Chief of Public Health Action (PHA), The Union’s quarterly online open-access journal. 

Dr Maher is also the coordinator of research capacity strengthening for Tropical Diseases Research, a Special Programme…

Zimbabwe is one of 19 countries whose TB control campaigns have been awarded funds through Challenge TB, the new funding mechanism for global TB response, launched by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In December, it became the first country to…

The 5-day World Conference on Tobacco or Health (17-21 March in Abu Dhabi) will offer a Youth Conference, a full-day update on the WHO FCTC and MPOWER and tracks on new tobacco products, supply and demand issues, the globalisation of tobacco industry interference and the post…

This factsheet discusses smokefree policies that ban smoking in certain establishments, venues or defined areas; bans are most effective when mandated by legislation with penalties for non-compliance.

A Union expert has joined Pakistan’s technical working group on tobacco taxation, following the launch of a report co-published by The Union which demonstrated that tobacco tax reform could lead to 500,000 people quitting cigarettes, and increase tax revenues by 27.2 billion…

Bangladesh's distinctive approach to tobacco control policy enforcement may offer a sustainable and flexible model for other countries, new Union research suggests.

Taskforces working at district levels to implement tobacco control laws are indicated to be both…

The tobacco industry markets its products through advertising, promotions and sponsorship (TAPS). This factsheet covers why TAPS bans must be comprehensive and cover traditional and emerging platforms for marketing.