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The mother's name is Daw Yee Yee Hlaing, and she is 43 years of age. A divorcèe, she lives with her mother, sisters, two sons and daughter in Taungoo town.

"I was really frightened when I heard from my relatives that my ex-husband suffered from AIDS," she explained. "…

In Argentina, World No Tobacco Day on 31 May was celebrated in a massive way. The Buenos Aires Ministry of Health, a Bloomberg Initiative grantee, and the Anti-Cancer Argentinean Coalition (LALCEC) organised a campaign for people to measure the carbon monoxide (CO) in their…

The programme for Eastern Europe was organised by the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) at the World Health Organization, which leads SORT IT (Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative), in collaboration with the WHO European…

The Union called on world leaders to ban TAPS and help save the lives of up to 70 million people, seven percent of the world's current one billion smokers. The Union worked with current grantees under the Bloomberg Initiative grants programme to reinforce this message…

The campaign has been launched by three leading US organisations that monitor philanthropic activity – the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator and GuideStar. It seeks to correct the misconception about overhead and asks donors instead to focus on…

"All of us in The Union, the global public health community and the sick, poor and disadvantaged people to whom our work is devoted owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Dr Billo for more than two decades of extraordinary dedication and achievement," said Dr E Jane Carter,…

The UN Secretary-General's High-level Panel of Eminent Persons (HLP) released their final report on the post-2015 development agenda on 30 May. The report sets out a preliminary universal agenda to build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and deliver on the promise of…

  The key decisions in the resolution are:

Participants in a TB-HIV workshop in Mozambique were advised by the World Health Organization (WHO) that more lives can be saved by improving implementation in decentralised and integrated settings than by centralised and specialised HIV care and antiretroviral therapy (ART)…

"In May of last year, I was in poor health and I found out that I had TB", said Ko Thia, a 28-year-old who works in a nylon rope factory to support his wife and two-year-old son. "I started TB treatment but it cost a lot even for a couple of weeks."

Then Ko Thia…

In China, Lanzhou People's Congress approved the local tobacco control law on 27 April 2013. The law will go into effect on 1 January 2014, making Lanzhou the fourth city, after Guangzhou, Harbin and Tianjin, to pass a local tobacco control law supported by the International…

The Union's Child Lung Health Division recently facilitated training in child TB for four districts selected by the Namibia National TB and Leprosy Programme (NTLP). NTLP and health workers from the districts were updated on child TB management and planned operational…

A demonstration in Dhaka demanding a tobacco control law amendment at the next parliament. The demonstration was jointly organised by WBB Trust, Oruonodoyer Tarun Dol and Green Mind Society. Photo by: Aminul Islam Sujon, WBB Trust

On 29 April in…

 The Union launched a pilot project in collaboration with Eli Lilly and Dimagi, aimed at strengthening the process of patient referral and tracking through mobile technology in the tribal district of Khunti in Jharkhand, India. The intervention covering nearly 300,000…

Whilst congratulating governments on their commitment to reduce overall mortality from NCDs by 25 per cent by 2025, they warned that this target can only be achieved by ensuring NCD prevention and control is central to the future development agenda.

NCDs – mainly…

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Whilst congratulating governments on their commitment to reduce overall mortality from NCDs by 25 per cent by 2025, they warned that this target can only be achieved by ensuring NCD prevention and control is central to the future development agenda.

NCDs – mainly…

 "It's time to control asthma", according to this year's World Asthma Day theme, but The Union says the low availability and the prohibitive cost of asthma inhalers continue to be serious challenges in low- and middle-income countries. With the vast majority of the 235…

Technical experts from The Union and other organisations participated in the first joint monitoring mission initiated by the Lao PDR's National TB Programme (NTP) with support from the WHO Western Pacific Region. Dr Steve Graham of The Union's Child Lung Health Division…

Minister of Health Jaime Mañalich said implementation of the new law is one of the priorities of the country, since Chile has the highest rate of smoking in Latin America, with more than 40% of adults and 34% of teenagers aged 13 to 15 using tobacco.

The two-day…

The Union coordinated with the Ministry of Health to train the 200 people who gave tuberculin skin tests to 7,740 school children attending 251 public and private educational institutions in cities with populations over 20,000 across 9 selected regions of the country. The…

The Union's phase II pharmacokinetic (PK) study assessing different doses of rifabutin in combination with protease inhibitor-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV-infected patients with tuberculosis in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam (ANRS 12150b Trial) has been completed.…