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The People’s Forum for Tobacco Control, a civil society group in Tamilnadu launched a new app, with Union support, that creates a platform for reporting violations of tobacco control law. All reports submitted via the app will be reviewed by civil society at national level…

In Pakistan, Minister of Health Saira Afzal Tarar received an award from the WHO for ‘outstanding work in fighting the global tobacco epidemic’. During her tenure, Minister Tarar has presided over legislation enforcing stricter bans on tobacco advertising, formation of a…

In Hanoi, Minister of Health Mdm Nguyen Thi Kim Tien received a WHO medal for her commitment to tobacco control and her team’s efforts to progress this work. At same time, the Ministry of Health presented The Union with a special award for its tobacco control support…

The 2nd Indonesian Conference on Tobacco or Health took place in Jakarta from 27 to 29 May. Attended by more than 500 public health practitioners, tobacco control advocates, researchers, policy makers, media and youth, the conference focused on the need to protect young…

Beijing, capital city of China, heralded the introduction of its new smokefree law on World No Tobacco Day with a vibrant celebration at the Birds’ Nest Stadium, led by dance troupes and actors. The new legislation, a powerful tool to protect Beijing’s 20+ million citizens…

Ukraine’s lawsuit against Australia, claiming that its plain tobacco packaging law constitutes an illegal barrier to trade, has been dropped much to the relief of tobacco control and public health supporters around the world.

Adjudicators for the World Trade…

World No Tobacco Day serves as an annual reminder for the public health community that tobacco control is integral to the urgent goals of promoting lung health and reducing the enormous global impact of non-communicable disease.

Observed each year on this day under…

Honge Liu was first drawn to disease prevention while studying for her medical degree. Although the course focused on curative medicine, preventative work had a greater appeal for her from the start.

“We saw so many people suffering with incurable diseases –…

Over the past decade, The Union’s Department of Tobacco Control has focused its work on policies proven to have the greatest population-…

Dear colleagues,

During the recent 68th World Health Assembly in Geneva, I had the opportunity to speak at various side events about the pandemic of non-communicable diseases – and the role of The Union and our partners in the NCD Alliance in tackling this enormous…

Dr Arnaud Trébucq

Dr Hans L Rieder

Dr Arnaud Trébucq of France and Dr Hans L Rieder of Switzerland, two of The Union’s long-standing and highly regarded tuberculosis experts, are transitioning to new roles and positions this spring.

Over the last 23…

The STREAM clinical trial has enrolled its 400th patient, meeting the recruitment target for Stage 1 of the comparison of a shorter 9-month treatment regimen for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) with the World Health Organization-approved treatment regimen.  …

The Union has been providing technical support to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Control and Prevention-Tuberculosis (CAP-TB) project in China, a five-year project designed to improve case detection and treatment for multidrug-resistant TB (MDR…

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…