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TB survivor makes an impact as an OR fellow in India
Myanmar programme called “best TB/HIV collaboration”
Tobacco control training has far-reaching impact
Technical training has far-reaching impact on tobacco control The Union’s tobacco control technical training is having a marked impact on advancing tobacco control policies, according to a survey of nearly 400 participants in the 22 workshops offered between 1 January 2009…
Ethics Advisory Group (EAG) reviewed 64 protocols in 2010
The Ethics Advisory Group (EAG) was established to provide ethical guidance on The Union's work at national and international levels. Its roles are to safeguard the dignity and rights of study participants and to promote ethical standards in lung health services…
Dr Kjell Bjartveit, former Union president, dies in Oslo
Dr Bjartveit was a Senior Officer in the Norwegian Mass Radiography Service (later the National Health Screening Service) from 1959 to 1963 and held the position of Director there from 1963 until his retirement in 1997. He was a pioneer in cardiovascular…
NCD Alliance puts focus on the impact of NCDs on women
- The four main NCDs – cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes – are chronic, costly, but largely preventable diseases that share common modifiable risk factors. Notable among them are tobacco use and obesity, both of which are becoming…
The Union and MSF approach to operational research (OR)
Desmond Tutu helps children in South Africa kick TB!
Mayors’ alliance to accelerate sub-national smokefree efforts in Indonesia
The current 12 members of the alliance will draft a charter with a mandate to develop and implement local regulations for 100% smokefree public places and workplaces. Their mandate will also include provisions to ban outdoor tobacco advertisements over the next 12…
Smoking cessation and smokefree environments for tuberculosis patients
K. Bissell, T. Fraser, C-Y. Chiang, D. Enarson
This guide addresses the association between tobacco smoke and tuberculosis and offers recommendations for health service providers who want to help their patients with TB to stop using tobacco.
Guide on the management of TB in HIV-infected children
M. Cotton, S. M. Graham, H. Jaspan, et al
The risk for developing confirmed TB in HIV-infected infants in a TB endemic setting has been reported to be over 20 times higher than in HIV-uninfected infants. To assist health care workers in district and regional hospitals…
How Eliminating the Global Illicit Cigarette Trade Would Increase Tax Revenue and Save Lives
Luk Joossens Framework Convention Alliance Brussels, Belgium
David Merriman Institute of Government and Public Affairs and Department of Public Administration University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Hana Ross International Tobacco Control Research American Cancer…
A WHO/The Union Monograph on TB and Tobacco Control
World Health Organization / The Union
This monograph provides guidelines to managers of TB and tobacco control programmes on implementing tobacco control activities as an integral part of TB case management at primary health care facilities.
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