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The Union World Conference on Lung Health is the largest and most influential gathering of stakeholders in the fight against tuberculosis, and this year, the customary lively week of discussion and debate will kick off a few days early with the launch of World Health…

Prof Simon Schaaf has received the National Order of Mapungubwe (silver) for excellence in the field of medical sciences from South African President Jacob Zuma. The award specifically recognises Schaaf’s groundbreaking research on managing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (…

A coast-to-coast sponsored cycle ride and walk in Scotland has raised more than £2,000 for The Union’s Centennial Campaign.

The Union’s President, Jane Carter and her husband Tom, travelled from America to participate, along with Union colleagues from Paris and…

The Union's Department of Tobacco Control, represented by all regional and country leads, attended the 6th Session of Conference of Parties (COP6) to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) this month. Their role at the meeting in Moscow was to support the…

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that an international consortium of leading organizations in tuberculosis control, including The Union, will manage its new global programme, Challenge TB.  Over the next five years, USAID will…

Tobacco use kills more than 6 million people each year and is a major risk factor for both lung and other diseases. Consequently, at the 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona, Spain next month, tobacco control will be a key theme.  

In response…

In the Journal of the American Medical Association this month, Tom Frieden, Karen Brudney and Anthony Harries remind readers that a key challenge in TB control is “forgetting”: political leaders forget the poor; health leaders forget simple, low-tech interventions; patients…

New working groups focus on current public health concerns

The Union is pleased to announce the formation of two new working groups that each address the synergy between different public health challenges. The goal of both working groups is the bring together …

The World Health Organization (WHO) and The Union have released a training toolkit to combat childhood tuberculosis (TB). The training focuses on building the capacity of health care workers at the primary and secondary level to address and manage TB in children. 

The main…

About 3000 attendees from government, civil society, the private sector and the research and academic communities expected to convene in Barcelonafrom 28 October – 1 November 

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The International Standards of Tuberculosis Care (ISTC) focuses on the contribution that good clinical care of individual patients and public-private collaborations make to TB control. A balanced approach emphasizing both patient care and…

A background paper based on the literature and international experience in the development of sustainable funding models for tobacco control, to date. Sustainable funding models result in reduced tobacco use within a country where tobacco taxes are increased and these funds…

A scholarship programme supporting the participation of delegates from low- and middle-income countries in the World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) is now open for applications. More than 3,000 delegates are expected to attend the event, which will be held in Abu…

The 17th Conference of The Union Latin America Region was held on 22 August in conjunction with the Congreso Nacional de Neumologia at the Hotel Las Dunas in Ica, Peru.  Close to 250 delegates from Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and Peru gathered for…

The Union is proud to announce that its International Management Development Programme (IMDP) is now a member of the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) , supporting its efforts to strengthen human resources for health (HRH) by delivering accredited management training to…

The Union is pleased to offer 100 free registrations for civil society members for our annual Union World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona 28 October–1 November. The deadline to apply for these scholarships has been extended to 15 September 2014.

In addition,…

In China only 5–8,000 of an estimated 260,000 children with tuberculosis are registered and reported each year. Experts acknowledge that this huge disparity is due to a combination of under-diagnosis and under-reporting.  This month a workshop sponsored by The Union and…

After a battle almost five years long, Indonesia’s law on tobacco pack health warnings has finally been implemented – pictorial health warnings must now feature across 40 per cent of the front and back of all tobacco packaging. However, implementation will be challenging. The…

With three-quarters of the expected patients now enrolled in the STREAM clinical trial of a shortened MDR-TB regimen, investigators and partners working on the trial met in Johannesburg, South Africa  on 8-9 July to discuss progress and next steps.

STREAM – which…

Operational research training provided through a collaboration between The Union, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the World Health Organization is attracting significant attention. In June, three peer-reviewed journal articles discussed the potential impact of the courses…

Uruguay has introduced stringent new bans on all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS), including cigarette displays at point of sale.

When this legislative upgrade comes into force in August, Uruguay will be fully implementing the World Health…