Items tagged with Advocacy

The Union survey: Civil society feedback for better engagement (post)

Civil society members are invited to fill out a short survey to provide feedback to the Union on how to better engage with civil society.

Global TB community reaction to exclusion of TB from WHO list of bacteria in need of new antibiotics (post)

On 27 February 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a Global priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to guide research, discovery, and development of new antibiotics.

Candle Light Vigil held at India Gate in memory of the lives lost to TB (post)

On the eve of World TB Day, the Global Coalition of TB Activists (GCTA) and the Global Coalition Against TB (GCAT), supported by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, conducted a Candle Light Vigil to honour the memory of the nearly 500,000 people who lost their lives to TB over the past year in India.

TAC and SECTION27: We cannot endorse the HIV and TB plan in its current form (post)

GFAN Speakers Bureau now accepting nominations for 2017-2018 (post)

The Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) is seeking a new group of people for the GFAN Speakers Bureau. These individuals will, as much as possible, represent the diversity of people who are affected by HIV/AIDS, TB and/or malaria.

STREAM community engagement workshop held in Tbilisi, Georgia (post)

The STREAM trial, which is evaluating the effectiveness of shorter treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), held a community engagement workshop in Tblisi, Georgia, where the Stage 2 trial is planned to initiate shortly. Stage 2 will study a six-month MDR-TB treatment and a nine-month all oral regimen.

Call for applications: Regional members for the Union Community Advisory Panel (post)

The Union Community Advisory Panel (UCAP) is a committee formed to meaningfully engage civil society organizations (CSOs) and affected community members in all aspects of the work of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and to improve communication mechanisms between The Union and the CSOs and community.

MSF open letter to G20 Health Ministers highlights 3 global health priority areas (post)

Médecins Sans Frontières: Open letter from MSF to the Meeting of the G20 Health Ministers

Global TB Caucus consultation on the role of parliamentarians in ending TB (post)

The Global TB Caucus is seeking to better understand what the role of parliamentarians should be in relation to the Global Ministerial Conference on TB in November 2017 and the United Nations High-Level Meeting on TB in 2018, what should be the primary objectives, and what the desired outcome should look like.

Powerful campaign shows tobacco use fuelling India's TB epidemic (post)

New Delhi [India], May 31 : The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India, has launched the world's first national tobacco control mass media campaign to warn people of the increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) and dying from TB associated with smoking cigarettes or bidis, or being exposed to second-hand smoke.