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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory disease – kill approximately 36 million per year, with 80% of these deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries. If current trends continue, this figure is projected…

The Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS) is a subset of key questions from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) that was designed by WHO and the US CDC to produce national and sub-national estimates on tobacco use, exposure to secondhand smoke and quit attempts among adults…

"The need to build the capacity for programmatically relevant OR is as pressing as ever," says TREAT TB Director Dr I.D. Rusen, who facilitates the course. "To have the widest reach, we need to explore innovative options to bring people together to learn – even when face-to-…

With 160,000 prisoners, South Africa has the largest prison population in Africa, according to a recent speech by Correctional Services Minister Sdu Ndebele. Overcrowding is also a serious problem, and that makes South Africa ripe for two other problems: TB and, given the…

The WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2013 also highlights the long path ahead, with two- thirds of the world's population not provided any form of protection from the tobacco epidemic. Tobacco use and exposure to second-hand smoke remain serious threats to global…

Of the 100 people who took advantage of this service, 53 had chest X-rays; and the sputum of 46 was examined. One person needed fine needle aspiration cytology. Four people were identified as having TB.

PICTS' mobile chest X-ray team travels around every three months…

The conference organised each year by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) will be held on 30 October–3 November 2013 at the Palais des Congrès In Paris, France. Registration is now open (early-bird discount offered through 31 July); to…

Philippe Clevenbergh never imagined he would end up living in Myanmar when he came to The Union in 2004. He was a busy physician treating HIV/AIDS patients at Paris’s Hôpital Lariboisière.

Nevertheless, in 2006, he launched The Union’s Integrated HIV Care for TB…

The new section will serve members interested in:

• Adult Lung Health – including pneumonia, asthma, COPD, air pollution, occupational lung disease and non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

• Child Lung Health – Childhood TB, HIV, childhood pneumonia, other child…

 "The decision to close the office in Cairo was difficult, but one that had to be taken in order to streamline resources according to our strategic funding priorities", said José Luis Castro, Interim Executive Director of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and…

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…