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This factsheet discusses how effective health warnings—those with large, shocking pictures and strong, clear language—on tobacco packs encourage smokers to quit and discourage non-smokers from starting.

Mass media campaigns are an essential part of a comprehensive tobacco control programme, as they reduce tobacco consumption and are cost-effective compared to other healthcare interventions. This factsheet focuses on stop smoking campaigns.

Dear colleagues: We recently bid farewell to 2014 and, as I imagine many of you are, I’m looking forward to 2015 with excitement and anticipation. It’s going to be an important year for The Union, and not only because it marks our 95th anniversary. Last December, The Union…

This factsheet focuses on tobacco dependency as a recognised medical condition; providing assistance for smoking cessation and tobacco dependency treatment are key tobacco control measures. 

This factsheet covers the connection between smoking and tuberculosis. Active smoking is significantly associated with TB disease and deaths, while exposure to second-hand smoke is significantly associated with TB disease, and with TB infection among children and young people…

Our illustration shows seals from the Korean National Tuberculosis Association (Republic of Korea), 2nd prize winner in the 2014 Christmas Seals Contest.

Now is the time to renew your Union membership for 2015 in order to remain connected to our 3,000+ network of health experts and advocates and receive professional benefits, including:

Performance indicators are essential tools for reporting on a project’s progress, informing stakeholders of the quality of the implementation and providing a framework for evaluating the project’s success. However, many public health programmes have difficulty designing…

The Union recently brought research partners together in Washington, DC to share results from five years of TB research that began in 2009. Carried out through the TREAT TB initiative supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), researchers worked with…

In 1999 Matthew Allen was asked to join the New Zealand government’s delegation to the negotiations on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Allen was then National Drug Policy manager for the Ministry of Health, and, with his background as a…

Brazil has stepped up its fight against tobacco-related diseases by tightening the tobacco control legislation that has contributed to a 300 percent drop in the number of smokers between 1989 and 2013. The new regulations are aimed at continuing this decline in a country that…

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The Government of China, the world’s most populous nation, has drawn up a tobacco control law, which, if adopted in full, will reduce smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke on a staggering scale.…

First Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day on 12 December marks anniversary of UN endorsement of  UHC goal

 On Monday this week, the World Health Organization announced that 6,330 people have now died from Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone—the three…

December 1 is World AIDS Day, a day to solemnly reflect on the more than 35 million lives lost to HIV/AIDS, to stand in solidarity with communities affected and to mobilise action against the epidemic. TB is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV, making…

The Word Health Organization 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…

The 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health, recently concluded in Barcelona, Spain, not only had record attendance with over 3,300 delegates from 134 countries, but also created the broadest international impact with The Global TB Summit, participation from civil society…

The links between diabetes and unhealthy eating, obesity and lack of exercise are well known, but this World Diabetes Day (14 November), The Union and the World Diabetes Foundation are hoping to increase awareness of another dangerous link – between diabetes and tuberculosis…

At last week’s 45th World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona, Spain, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and World Diabetes Foundation jointly issued a call to action against a global co-epidemic of diabetes mellitus and…

The 6th annual World Pneumonia Day on Wednesday, 12 November aims to highlight the fact that pneumonia remains the world’s leading killer of children under five years old. While pneumonia affects children in every country around the world, in 2013, nearly all of the 900,000…

One of the world’s smallest countries – Nepal - has taken a large step toward combating tobacco-related disease this week. Ninety percent of the surface area of all tobacco packaging must now be covered with harrowing images designed to warn consumers of the health…

New Treatment Regimen Is First-Ever Injection-Free Regimen Tested to Date

6 November 2014, Paris, France – The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) announced plans for new clinical research that will evaluate the effectiveness of two…

One of the greatest barriers to eliminating TB has nothing to do with germs or medicine or technology. It has to do with money. Even though TB has killed well over 10 million people in the last decade, the world is somehow failing to invest the resources necessary to stop it…

The Union Medal and Honorary Membership were conferred on three long-time Union members at the General Assembly in Barcelona, Spain on Saturday, 1 November 2014.  Honorary membership is a lifetime status granted to a person who has become distinguished through active…

The Inaugural Session of the 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona featured calls to action in the fight against TB from Nick Herbert, MP and chair of the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB, South Africa Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi…