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The Global Indigenous Stop TB Initiative (GISI) Working Group of The Union has operated for over 15 years as a networking space for researchers, care practitioners, and advocates, to network and share our activities globally. To achieve our objective of increasing Indigenous…

The MPOWER Research Group on Tobacco Control was formed in the year 2017 with a goal to scale-up global tobacco control research for feeding into policies at regional/country level. The group was set up with the felt need of systematically mapping, identifying and…

Goal: To serve as a community of practice for investigators, program managers, and advocacy groups who are working to improve TB prevention, detection, and treatment for women and children by integrating TB and TB/HIV services in maternal and child health settings

This working group focuses on chronic respiratory problems, across the life course with the goal of advocating for challenge-focused research that is inclusive, equitable and strengthens links between researchers, communities and policymakers.

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The Zoonotic TB (ZTB) Sub-section was formed in the early 2000’s when it became clear that there was a general lack of understanding and attention regarding ZTB by public health and animal health agencies, physicians and veterinarians, politicians, and the general public. It…

The TB Undernutrition working group was established to highlight the importance of undernutrition as a risk factor for TB disease by engaging key stakeholders, providing critical analysis of bottlenecks to addressing this modifiable risk factor, and by helping identify…

This working group was formed to set up a community of practice in tuberculosis multimorbidity, aiming to develop and promote a strategic research, awareness, advocacy and policy agenda and initiatives on physical and mental multimorbidity in tuberculosis care. 

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Overall Goal

To establish a child pneumonia hub within the Union that has an overall theme of capacity building and two sub-themes of advocacy and implementation research.

Background

Each year pneumonia kills more children less than five years of age…

Globally, people deprived of liberty (PDL) have extremely high rates of tuberculosis, often more than 10 times greater than the general population.1,2 Overcrowding, poor ventilation, limited access to healthcare resources, substance abuse and undernutrition are all risk…