Tuberculosis webinars

Hear from tobacco control implementation experts who share their experiences of achieving high compliance with tobacco control laws, through real-world case studies, and learn how to use these experiences to improve compliance rates.

Digital adherence technologies for TB are increasingly being used in a variety of contexts to monitor adherence to TB medications. This presentation aims to acquaint online attendees with the range of DATs being used in high and low TB burden settings.

Speaker Leo Martinez, winner of the 2017 Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize, will provide an overview review of transmission dynamics of M. tuberculosis in settings where both tuberculosis and HIV are endemic.

This webinar is hosted by The Union’s TB and Mental Health working group, in partnership with Survivors Against TB, a community group that works with TB survivors and diverse stakeholders to advocate on creating patient and community focused paradigms of care in TB in India.

The session reported on the survey of Union members and members of Global Drug Initiative and Global Laboratory Initiative about the availability of drug susceptibility testing, followed by a discussion of potential strategies to expand this availability.

Determining the source of a zoonotic infection is generally limited to whole-genome sequencing. In this webinar, leaders in the development of new rapid TB diagnostic tests discussed the challenges and progress, including rapidly identifying cases of ZTB.