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Since the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC) was introduced in 2005, the tobacco industry has invested millions of dollars in legal expertise focused on combating its provisions, including a range of tactics to avoid liability for…

Two recent advocacy meetings organised by the Program to Increase Catchment of Tuberculosis Suspects (PICTS) have greatly increased the support network for this TB case finding project in Mandalay.

The first meeting brought together 160 General Practitioners (GPs) to…

The Union and its partners in SORT IT (Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative) completed its first three-module operational research course focused on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Estonia last month. The participants, who came from eight Eastern…

Executive Director José Luis Castro represented The Union as one of 400 invited guests at the inaugural presentation of the Genesis Prize in Jerusalem on Thursday, 22 May.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented the US $1 million award to American…

UNITAID, the public health funding mechanism supported largely by a tax on airline tickets, has pledged more than US $60 million to speed the uptake of newly approved MDR-TB drugs in low- and middle-income countries.

“This grant demonstrates that a broad-based…

The 16th World Conference on Tobacco or Health will be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE on 17-21 March 2015 and focus on the theme of “Tobacco and Non-Communicable Diseases”.  The aim is to highlight the fact that tobacco use is a major risk factor for the four major non-…

José Luis Castro, Executive Director of The Union, issued the following statement in response to this week’s announcement of a new clinical trial for a TB and multidrug-resistant TB treatment regimen.

The TB Alliance has announced that it plans to move into stage 3…

The Board of Directors of The Union has announced the unanimous confirmation of José Luis Castro as Executive Director. The Executive Director is the chief executive of the organisation, responsible for directing day-to-day operations, fundraising and strategic partnerships.…

Two of The Union’s MDR-TB experts have been chosen by the Stop TB Partnership for leadership positions in the global fight against drug-resistant TB. Dr Chen-Yuan Chiang will serve on the Core Group of the Global Drug-Resistant TB Initiative (GDI) and Dr Raimond Armengol is…

The Union and Population Services International launched a free TB helpline at a World TB Day event in New Delhi on 27 March.  The helpline is a service of Project Axshya and is designed to provide callers free information about TB, available diagnostic and treatment…

Dr Stephen Graham of The Union’s Child Lung Health Division has been selected to chair a new Western Pacific Region Taskforce on Child TB. The initiative came out of a meeting held in March in Viet Nam, which aimed to facilitate the development of a childhood TB action plan…

The Union recently brought together national tuberculosis programme (NTP) managers and pediatricians from eight francophone African countries for the region’s first joint workshop on childhood TB. The objectives of this Union workshop were to examine the current state of…

Experts from The Union's Department of Tobacco Control will participate in the 6th European Conference on Tobacco or Health (ECTOH), taking place in Istanbul, Turkey from 26 to 29 March. Department Chair Dr Ehsan Latif will chair and speak at a session on  “Moving…

The Union’s successful approach to improving TB services in the urban slums of Uganda’s capital, Kampala, will be replicated in 12 additional Ugandan cities, thanks to a Wave-4 TB REACH grant. 

Since 2011, the Slum Partnerships to Actively Respond to Tuberculosis…

In late 2013, Guinea Conakry was set to scale up its efforts to address multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) with support from The Global Fund. A full course of second-line drugs had been ordered from the Global Drug Facility, but other aspects of the programme were not…

Tuberculosis has a hidden impact on child survival, both directly and indirectly, according to a Viewpoint article published in the Lancet on World TB Day (24 March). Written by The Union’s Steve Graham, Anne Detjen and others, the article illustrates how the full impact of…

24 March 2014 – Research published today provides critical new insight on the harmful links between smoking tobacco and developing tuberculosis (TB). Regular tobacco smoking doubles the risk that people who have been successfully treated for TB will develop TB…

This year’s Union North America Region Conference in Boston included a custom-designed workshop offered by the International Management Development Programme (IMDP) on 'Maximizing the Impact of Public Health Messages'.

The half-day workshop introduced participants to…