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Dear colleagues,    As The Union enters its 95th year, I write you with an urgent appeal to join us in revitalising the global fight against tuberculosis.

Given the tools we have, many of which were developed by Union members, TB should have already been…

J. A. Caminero (lead author)

The Union is offering Comprehensive Clinical and Operational MDR-TB training in all the world for more than 10 years. Based on The Union's 93-years of working in the field, the new guide tackles the challenges of fulfilling each patient's…

The Centennial Campaign honours the upcoming 100th anniversary of The Union, which was founded in Paris in 1920 by 31 national lung associations to create a central resource that could leverage their separate efforts to stop tuberculosis (TB). The Union has been organising…

HCV is a prevalent—and deadly—coinfection among people living with HIV/AIDS, especially people who inject drugs. An estimated five million people are HCV-coinfected – although surveillance data in many low- and middle-income countries range from limited to nonexistent.

The Roadmap for Childhood TB: Toward Zero Deaths, launched today by global TB leaders[1] in Washington D.C., estimates that US$120 million per year could have a major impact on saving tens of thousands of children’s lives from TB, including among children infected with both…

Prof Ross Anderson MD MSC FFPH FRCP FMEDSci is an epidemiologist and public health specialist with a medical background. He is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Scientific Advisory Committee for the Review of Evidence of Health Aspects of Air Pollution (REVIHAAP…

TB experts gathered in New Delhi in August to review two decades of operational research conducted in India with the goals of disseminating the data most relevant to meeting today's TB control challenges and setting an agenda for future research.

The meeting on 26–27…

Among the issues that the 5-day intensive course addressed were how to handle TB patients who present with immune systems badly compromised by HIV, and those who delayed coming in for diagnosis and treatment. In addition to covering TB and HIV case management, the course…

The Union and CTFK co-manage the Bloomberg Tobacco Control Grants Programme, as partners in the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use (BI). During his visit, the Mayor also attended a meeting with the grants team, which assembled in Paris to select recipients for Round…

The Union / MSF Access Campaign

The purpose of this joint Union / MSF publication is to provide transparent information on prices and quality-assured sources for drug-resistant tuberculosis medicines, as well as a summary of the challenges limiting still their access…

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The TPP is a free trade agreement involving 12 countries that are part of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, USA and Vietnam. In order that this agreement does not become a…

 The declaration – adopted by delegates to the 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health held last week in Chiba, Japan – also requests that Indonesia refuse to host World Tobacco Asia 2014 scheduled to be held in Bali next year. World Tobacco Asia is a tobacco…

Baja California has an estimated population of 3.1 million people with visitors to the state far exceeding that number. Up to 23% of the state's adult population and 13% of teenagers are smokers. 54% of adults are exposed to tobacco smoke in workplaces, and 50% of teenagers…

“Meeting the health needs of children in low- and middle-income countries is central to The Union’s vision of health solutions for the poor, and our programmes address some of the key issues outlined in the plan”, says José Luis Castro, Interim Executive Director of The Union…

The September issue of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease is now online. This issue includes articles such as a "State of the Art" article on TB screening in high HIV-prevalence settings, a case study on novel paediatric delivery systems for second-…

Detjen A, Gnanashanmugam D, Talens A 

Published by the Core Group and The Union, this guide aims to outline ways to decentralise childhood TB activities and integrate them into community-based maternal and child programs to reach children who remain currently…

Both the World Health Organization and The Union recognise that smear microscopy remains an important tool for the laboratory diagnosis of TB and in monitoring the patients' response to treatment. This practical guide, an effort of the Global Laboratory Initiative, is meant…

TBTEAM, the Tuberculosis TEchnical Assistance Mechanism, whose secretariat is hosted in the WHO Global TB Programme, is a global coalition of partners, countries and funding agencies. It aims to build up the national capacity of countries and focuses on assisting national TB…

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…