Items tagged with Global TB response
Opinion: Engaging the private sector is vital to ending TB (post)
Over two-thirds of people with symptoms of tuberculosis initially seek care in the private sector. TB is a disease that thrives in areas with poor living conditions such as overcrowded spaces and poorly ventilated housing, and among those with weakened immune systems due to living with HIV, diabetes, or undernutrition.
2023 TB HLM Affected Communities and Civil Society Coordination Hub: Deep dive calls - February calls recording & registration for March calls (post)
The 2023 TB HLM Affected Communities and Civil Society Coordination Hub has been constituted to support and provide a platform for the affected communities and the civil society to engage with all processes of the upcoming 2023 UN High-Level Meeting on TB (TB HLM) scheduled for September this year in New York, USA. The Hub is hosted by the Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) and supported by the Stop TB Partnership.
General Assembly adopts a resolution deciding format, focus of the upcoming High-Level Meeting on TB in September (post)
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a text, titled “Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis”, by which it decided that the one-day high-level meeting convened by its President shall be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 22 September 2023 during the general debate of the Assembly’s seventy-eighth session and shall consist of an opening segment, a plenary segment for general discussion, two multi-stakeholder panels and a brief closing segment.
IJTLD March 2023 issue now online (post)
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) is the official publication of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union).
Consultancy opportunity: TB Accountability Policy Report (post)
RESULTS UK is seeking a consultant to write an accountability policy report to support the policy advocacy efforts in the run up to the 2023 UN High-Level Meeting on TB. Further details and scope of the work are available here.
Fast-tracking progress to End TB: high-level opportunities for investment and action (post)
In the lead up to World TB Day, Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director and Ms Hannah Monica Dias, Cross-Cutting Lead, of the WHO's Global TB Program along with Prof Madhukar Pai, Associate Director of McGill International TB Centre and Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health, co authored a commentary in The Lancet on fast-tracking progress to End TB, emphasizing high-level opportunities for investment and action.
WHO World TB Day 2023 newsletter (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a special edition of its newsletter in commemoration of World TB Day, 24 March.
TB: The unseen pandemic (post)
Q: When do we ignore a deadly pandemic?
A: When it’s called tuberculosis (TB)
Global TB Caucus: World TB Day video series (post)
To commemorate World TB Day, the Global TB Caucus produced three videos to briefly discuss TB: giving context on the current status of the epidemic, discussing how work in the sphere is currently ongoing, what role the Caucus plays in the fight against TB, and how audiences might involve themselves in the cause. The Caucus adopted a creative approach to make the video messages more accessible to all audiences. Access the video series here.
IJTLD April 2023 issue now online (post)
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) is the official publication of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union).
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