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World TB Day 2022: Campaign highlights (post)
The World TB Day 2022 campaign reached more than one billion people. The Stop TB Partnership provided a selection of campaign highlights.
The Union: The latest TB training and education news (post)
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) released its first quarterly training and education newsletter, sharing the latest news and updates from Union courses.
Q&A: We did it for COVID-19 — so why not for TB? (post)
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, a much less headline-grabbing disease was responsible for the majority of infectious disease deaths: tuberculosis. In 2020 alone, it killed 1.5 million people according to the World Health Organization’s latest “Global Tuberculosis Report.” The same year, COVID-19 claimed the lives of 1.7 million people but received wall-to-wall media coverage — and much more attention and investment than TB.
India: TB activists start monthly meetings to resolve issues faced by TB patients (post)
Mumbai: With the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic causing a setback for the country’s programme to eliminate tuberculosis (TB), non-government organisations (NGO), TB activists, survivors, and officers will hold a meeting every month to discuss the needs and challenges of its treatment in the country.
Webinar: From evidence to action: Community-led monitoring for access to TB screening and diagnostic testing - materials now available online (post)
On 4 May 2022, Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the Coalition of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (COWLHA) hosted a webinar on how community-led monitoring can be used to generate evidence for advocacy to improve the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of TB screening and diagnostic services.
Stop TB Partnership’s 35th Board meeting: Highlights (post)
The 35th meeting of the Stop TB Partnership Board, held on 19-20 May 2022, called for an urgent enhancement of political commitment and funding to end TB by 2030, and for placing TB high on the political agenda ahead of 2023 UN High-Level Meeting on TB.
WHO Town Hall for civil society and affected communities on ending TB (post)
On 9 June 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) will convene a civil society Town Hall on ending TB in close collaboration with the WHO Civil Society Task Force on TB. The Town Hall will be led by WHO Director-General, senior WHO leadership and members of the Task Force.
Global TB Caucus newsletter (post)
The Global TB Caucus released a newsletter listing the key activities and outcomes of the Caucus for the first half of 2022.
Global TB Caucus: TB video series (post)
The Global TB Caucus released a three-part video series: shorter-form primers that can easily inform people on key topics in the discussion surrounding TB.
Call for new membership: Communities Delegation to UNITAID Board (post)
The Communities Delegation to the UNITAID Board represents people living with and affected by HIV, TB and malaria and those co-infected with HIV and HCV, at the UNITAID Board and Committee level. The Communities Delegation is currently recruiting new members for the period 2022-2025. Interested individuals are invited to express their interest by 15 July 2022.
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