Items tagged with Global TB response
Stop TB Partnership Community Award 2022 winners announced (post)
TBpeople Ukraine and Club des Amis Damien from the Democratic Republic of Congo were announced as the joint winners of the Stop TB Partnership Community Award 2022. The award ceremony was organized on the sidelines of the Stop TB Partnership Community Summit held in Bangkok, Thailand on 31 October - 4 November 2022.
Target COVID-19 catch-up interventions for TB to vulnerable groups, advise scientists (post)
Vulnerable populations in 45 high-burden countries worldwide must be prioritised in efforts to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis (TB) care, according to new research published in BMC Medicine.
Tuberculosis control: getting back on track in the era of COVID-19 (post)
A new report by WHO has laid bare the worrying extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted efforts to combat tuberculosis. At the centre of the 2022 Global Tuberculosis Report are the statistics on case notifications. In 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, 7·1 million new cases of tuberculosis were reported worldwide. In 2020, this number dropped to 5·8 million, before recovering somewhat to 6·4 million in 2021. WHO is confident that the reduced number of reported cases of tuberculosis does not represent a genuine drop in the disease burden. The most likely explanation is, instead, that the first 2 years of the pandemic saw dramatically reduced access to health care and diagnostic services.
Highlights from the 2022 Union World Conference on Lung Health: Official press statements (post)
For the third year in a row, the 2022 Union World Conference on Lung Health was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic on 8-11 November 2022 under the theme Combating Pandemics: Today & Tomorrow.
Global meeting on strengthening public-private provider engagement calls for greater collaboration with all care providers to get the TB response back-on-track and to enhance accountability (post)
Тhe World Health Organization and the Stop TB Partnership with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria convened a meeting of the Global Working Group on Public-Private Mix for TB Care and Prevention in Nairobi, Kenya on 2-4 November 2022.
World Diabetes Day: Joining forces to enable access to essential prevention and care services for people with diabetes and TB (post)
14 November 2022 | Geneva: Today marks World Diabetes Day and this year’s theme is “access to diabetes education”, which underpins the larger multi-year theme of “access to care”. The theme highlights the importance of empowering individuals and communities with the right information to help improve the lives of close to half a billion people living with diabetes worldwide. People with diabetes have a higher risk of developing tuberculosis (TB), and of poor TB treatment outcomes. Access to education on diabetes will therefore help increase awareness and improve the quality of life for people and families affected by diabetes and TB.
#EndTB webinar: Multisectoral engagement to improve gender equity in TB and ensure no one is left behind (post)
To mark International Men’s Day 2022, 19 November, the World Health Organization and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Working Group on Gender Equity in TB will host a webinar on multisectoral engagement to improve gender equity in TB and ensure no one is left behind on 21 November 2022.
Dr Madhukar Pai: Overcoming our socialisation for scarcity in TB (post)
Dr Madhukar Pai, Professor & Canada Research Chair at McGill University, Montreal, gave this thought-provoking speech during the opening ceremony of The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2022.
Consultation open: TB Community Accountability Report (post)
Consultations are open to inform the TB Community Accountability Report on the Global Response to End TB. The report is being developed under the leadership of the Stop TB Partnership Affected Community and NGO Delegations but is envisaged to be a product that is owned by all TB affected community and civil society. The report will be presented at the 2023 UN High-Level Meeting on TB.
Equality and inclusion, for every child affected by TB (post)
Every child has a right to life and to health, yet 1.2 million children and young adolescents fell ill with TB in 2021. Over 200 000 children lost their lives to TB in the same year, and as much as 80% of them had not reached their fifth birthday. This year’s World Children’s Day comes at a time when the world is battling a global COVID-19 pandemic, and is faced with geopolitical conflict, economic downturn and food insecurity, all of which are broader determinants of TB. The impact of these factors on the TB epidemic will be disproportionately felt by the vulnerable, including children.
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