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The team covered 42 of the 51 core symposia and 14 of the 15 oral abstract sessions, but not the pre-meetings, posters, plenaries or satellite symposia. They organised the sessions under the topics:

• Basic Science and Laboratory Issues

• Clinical…

The Union awards consist of a full fellowship to attend the Union World Conference on Lung Health (including full delegate badge, travel and hotel), US$ 2,000 and a certificate presented at the conference. Honorees unable to attend the…

In her welcome address at the Inaugural Session on Wednesday, 14 November, Union President E Jane Carter described the theme as fitting not only to describe the goal for global health programmes, but also as a description of The Union itself and how its members support and…

In courses that finished in June 2012 in Paris and Luxembourg, 22 participants from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the South Pacific completed the final module and submitted their papers (23 in total) to peer-reviewed journals within four weeks, as…

The Government of Sri Lanka released new tobacco control legislation on 8 August 2012 that will see the country adopt some of the world's largest pictorial health warnings on tobacco packaging.

The Union has been working with Sri Lanka's…

The Union's MDR-TB Unit organised the course and led the faculty. The curriculum called for half of the time to be devoted to updating participants' knowledge of the most recent scientific evidence, with a focus on publications from African countries, including…

The TREAT TB Modeling Initiative is using operational and transmission modeling to project the performance, resource requirements and costs associated with using new tuberculosis diagnostic tools in real-world settings. On 14 September, Dr I.D. Rusen, TREAT TB…

Prof Pierre Chaulet  "Le quotidien d'Algérie"

P. I. Fujiwara, R. A. Dlodlo, O. Ferroussier, et al.

This guide summarises The Union's experience in developing approaches to integrated TB-HIV care for adults in resource-limited settings. It is recommended for health professionals at the implementation level and…

The Emvie citation for the "out of home" category described the campaign as a captivating and fresh approach to raising awareness about a very serious public health issue. Further evidence of the campaign's success is demonstrated by the…

One of the activities of Myanmar's Program to Increase Catchment of TB Suspects (PICTS) is to build a strong community among TB patients, so that they can support each other and serve as TB ambassadors. This has led to the formation of PATB (People Affected by…

Uttar Pradesh (UP) is a focal point of India's battle with TB as the country's most populous state and home to nearly a fifth of the country's active TB patients. In 2010, 277,245 patients registered for TB treatment in UP out of a total 1,522,147 new TB cases…

Wednesday, 14 Nov. 2012, 17:30-19:00

Sir John Crofton Memorial Lecture

Timebomb revisited ten years later: can we sustain progress or are we losing the war?

Speaker: Lee Reichman (USA), Founding Executive Director of the New Jersey Medical…