Items tagged with Global TB response
Grow food, not tobacco, to end TB (post)
Undernutrition and tobacco use are major determinants of TB globally. In 2021, of the 10.6 million people who fell ill with TB, 2.2 million were attributable to undernutrition and nearly 0.7 million to tobacco smoking. People who smoke tobacco have double the risk of TB disease, slower recovery, and a higher risk of unfavourable TB treatment outcomes, including recurrence of TB, death, and post-TB pulmonary and cardiovascular disease. Smoking cessation during TB treatment can improve treatment outcomes and has been shown to reduce the risk of TB infection and TB disease among household contacts as well. Improving food security and reducing tobacco smoking globally will therefore contribute significantly to the fight to end TB.
WHO and the Global Fund announce commitment for enhanced collaboration (post)
8 June 2023 | Geneva -- Today the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) signed a new and revised Strategic Framework for Collaboration, designed to build stronger and more resilient health systems and maximize collaboration and impact in support of country, regional and global responses to major communicable diseases.
The resurgence of ‘ticking timebomb’ tuberculosis (post)
Tuberculosis is set to overtake Covid-19 as the world’s most deadly infectious disease, with medical experts warning its resurgence represents a “ticking timebomb” healthcare emergency.
Ready Next Time: Beating TB today and preparing for pandemics tomorrow (post)
Ready Next Time is a report by Campaigns in Global Health that maps the intersection between efforts to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response systems and efforts to end TB. It sets out how policymakers and funders can deliver impact across both agendas, saving lives today and tomorrow and helping to make the case for sustained investment in public health.
Hope away from home: Providing support for refugees with TB, wherever they live (post)
Worldwide, more people are on the move than ever before, with an estimated 103 million forcibly displaced people globally including an estimated 32.5 million refugees. Refugees and other populations in humanitarian settings face considerable threats to their health, wellbeing and survival, including crowded living conditions, poverty, undernutrition, precarious legal status, discrimination and poor access to health and social protection services, all conditions in which tuberculosis (TB) thrives. In most settings, refugees are more likely to be exposed to TB, develop TB disease once exposed and have poor health, social and economic outcomes as a result of it.
IJTLD July 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).
Adopting an equitable, person-centered strategy to eliminate TB in a post-COVID-19 era (post)
The following is a summary of “Ending tuberculosis in a post-COVID-19 world: a person-centred, equity-oriented approach,” published in the February 2023 issue of Infectious Diseases by Ryckman, et al.
June 2023 issue of Public Health Action now online (post)
Public Health Action is the peer-reviewed open access journal of The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. It communicates and reports new knowledge across all relevant areas of operational research including: infection control, nutrition, TB, HIV, vaccines, smoking, COVID-19, microbial resistance and disease outbreaks.
WHO launches new platform featuring digital resources on ending TB (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Programme has created an online platform to help users find practical advice to implement digital technologies to support TB care worldwide. The platform includes easy access to guidelines and job aids developed by WHO and technical partners, as well as links to key literature and country examples. The content is organized around four functions: person-centred care, programme management, surveillance and monitoring, and eLearning. The online platform will be updated regularly with the most recent guidance and tools.
WHO launches two new e-courses on TB (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) launched two new e-courses on national strategic planning for TB and systematic screening for TB disease. The new WHO e-courses have been added to the End TB Channel in OpenWHO. They are free of charge and self-paced. A certificate can be downloaded if a 80% score or higher is achieved in the final assessment.
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