Items tagged with Advocacy
ICOH calls for a strong global effort to promote occupational safety and health strategies to prevent TB in high-risk worker populations (post)
The International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) recently put out two statements advocating for work place interventions to prevent TB among health workers and silica exposed workers (e.g. construction and mining). ICOH is also hoping to have these opportunities to prevent TB highlighted in the final declaration of the UN High-Level Meeting on TB in September.
Members of U.S. Congress sign letter supporting the UN High-Level Meeting on TB (post)
On 8 August 2018, 106 members of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to the U.S. President Donald Trump encouraging him to ensure meaningful U.S. engagement in the upcoming UN High-Level Meeting on TB in September.
The need for a strong UN declaration on TB (post)
There is a concerted effort to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) from the world. The shift in the global threat perception of the disease was evident at the first ever Global Ministerial Conference on ending TB in Moscow late last year. There, 120 nations adopted the Moscow Declaration, which included commitments on universalizing access to TB care, ensuring adequate financing of TB programmes, investing in research and development (R&D) and building mechanisms to review progress.
Support South Africa at UN – we need better & affordable TB medicines (post)
Negotiations are currently underway in New York for a United Nations (UN) political declaration on tuberculosis. In order to have a meaningful impact on the TB epidemic, members states must make concrete commitments to address the global TB crisis – a crisis that kills more than 1.5 million people globally every year and that remains South Africa’s leading reported cause of death.
2018 Union World Conference: Community and civil society pre-meeting (post)
International Civil Society Support (ICSS), ACTION and the Global TB Caucus invite community and civil society members to attend a pre-meeting ahead of the 49th Union World Conference on Lung Health on October 23 (full-day) and October 24 (half-day) in the Hague, the Netherlands.
August edition of The Union's newsletter (post)
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) released its August newsletter, presenting the initiatives and activities carried out during the month. It also contains information about upcoming events.
Strategic Initiative to Find Missing People with TB launches the online platform to boost information and knowledge exchange and monitor progress (post)
20 August 2018 | GENEVA - Stop TB Partnership launched today a new online and interactive platform as part of the Strategic Initiative to Find the Missing People with Tuberculosis (TB). The platform is available at http://stoptb-strategicinitiative.org/. The new interactive platform is part of joint efforts among Stop TB Partnership, The Global Fund to Fight, AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the World Health Organization (WHO) to improve TB case detection, notification and treatment. It is designed to display new information and learnings, experiences and best practices that implementers and partners acquire as they boost their efforts.
August edition of the Stop TB Partnership's newsletter (post)
The Stop TB Partnership released its August newsletter, presenting the initiatives and activities carried out during the month. It also contains information about upcoming events.
The Union: Official briefing of United Nations Correspondents ahead of HLM on TB (post)
As part of a series of press briefings, Paula I Fujiwara, The Union's Scientific Director, briefed members of the United Nations Correspondents Association in New York on the forthcoming UN High-Level Meeting (HLM) on TB taking place on 26 September.
TAG consultant opportunity: TB Project Consultant (post)
Treatment Action Group (TAG) seeks a consultant to work with its TB team on two grant-specific projects.
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