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Spotlight on ending TB at the 72nd World Health Assembly (post)
Member States and partners at the 72nd World Health Assembly, held 20-28 May 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland, reaffirmed their commitment to the Political Declaration of the UN High-Level Meeting on TB and its targets, and shared actions taken in follow-up.
Nominations open for 2019 REACH Awards, honoring frontline health workers and innovators in disease elimination (post)
Awards established by Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and adjudicated by prominent global health leaders; recipients to be announced at Reaching the Last Mile Forum in November.
50th Union World Conference on Lung Health: Scholarship applications are now open (post)
The Union offers a limited number of scholarships for individuals affected by lung disease, invited symposia speakers, authors of accepted abstracts and community volunteers.
TB Europe Coalition: Capacity building workshop (post)
The TB Europe Coalition launched a call for applications for a three-day capacity building workshop on TB advocacy and service delivery that will take place in London, UK on 16-18 September 2019.
Transition of TB program in Romania: the role, opportunities and priorities for civil society (post)
35 participants including civil society representatives, CCM members, Global Fund Portfolio Manager, experts from neighboring countries and representatives of the governmental structures gathered in Bucharest on 13 – 14 of June at a workshop to discuss what they can do for a greater sustainability of the country’s responses to the TB and HIV epidemics.
Major R&D funding needed to reach 2030 goal for ending TB epidemic (post)
Nine months after a historic high-level UN meeting where countries pledged to end the global tuberculosis epidemic by 2030, a chronic lack of R&D financing jeopardises that ambitious goal, said expert panelists at a briefing on the TB R&D landscape last week in Geneva, hosted by South Africa’s Permanent Mission to the UN.
June 2019 edition of the Stop TB Partnership's newsletter (post)
The Stop TB Partnership released its June 2019 newsletter, presenting the initiatives and activities carried out during the month. It also contains information about upcoming events.
Stop TB Partnership and IAPAC sign Memorandum of Understanding (post)
3 July 2019 I Geneva, Switzerland – The Stop TB Partnership and the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC) are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will further focus their respective efforts on ending tuberculosis (TB) in large affected urban areas.
Regional meeting on capacity building on DR-TB treatment in the EECA region (post)
The TB Europe Coalition organized a regional meeting on capacity building of civil society to advocate for safe and affordable drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) treatment in the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA). The meeting took place on 18-20 June 2019 in Kiev, Ukraine.
WHO and the Indonesian Ministry of Health convene over 200 global youth in historic Town Hall to End TB (post)
Over 200 young people from all over the world pledged their commitment to end TB at the first-ever Youth Town Hall on ending TB in Jakarta on July 15, 2019. Through a bold Youth Declaration on the Fight to End TB, youth representatives including from high TB burden countries such as Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Kenya and the Philippines, outlined key commitments and actions they would lead to accelerate efforts to end TB. The declaration is aligned to and will contribute to reaching the targets set in the political declaration of the UN High Level Meeting by Heads of State, the WHO End TB Strategy and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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