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Nepal's Legislature-Parliament passed a tobacco control law on Monday, 11 April, which will take effect 90 days after the President endorses it. The bill was presented at the parliament by Deputy Prime Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara and includes…

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Le projet Axshya est en cours, et il est prévu que le projet sur cinq ans pour le contrôle de la tuberculose et l’organisation des soins parmi la société civile atteigne 744 millions de personnes dans 374 districts et 23 états indiens d’ici 2015. Le Gouvernement indien,…

Key questions regarding the new tools and new challenges facing TB control and prevention today are being addressed through an innovative international initiative, TREAT TB. TREAT TB (Technology, Research, Education and Technical Assistance for Tuberculosis) is managed by…

Desk guide for diagnosis and management of TB in children Tuberculosis in children is an important problem that is beginning to receive welcome attention. To support efforts to improve the care of children with TB, The Union and partners from sub-Saharan Africa have…

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…

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 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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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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