Items tagged with Global TB response

The key to overcoming the dual burden of TB and HIV (post)

For people living with HIV, tuberculosis is a big problem. It is the leading cause of death among those with HIV, who are 14 to 18 times more likely to fall ill with the disease than those without HIV, according to the World Health Organization. Latent TB infections can more easily progress to full disease due to the weakened immune system of people with HIV. Around 1 in 3 AIDS-related deaths in 2021 were also due to TB.

Global meeting on strengthening public-private provider engagement outlines key actions to accelerate the TB response towards reaching commitments made by world leaders at the 2023 UN HLM on TB (post)

Over 130 participants from countries, partners and civil society came together at the Global Meeting of the Working Group on Public-Private Mix for TB prevention and care (PPM Working Group). The meeting, held on 12 November in Paris, France, was convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Stop TB Partnership with support from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Global Fund. The meeting was organized on the sidelines of the 53rd Union World Conference on Lung Health.

2023 Union Conference: Official press releases (post)

After three years being held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2023 Union World Conference on Lung Health (Union Conference) took place in-person on 15-18 November 2023 in Paris, France under the theme 'Transforming evidence into practice'.

How governments and global aid agencies use TB as a political tool (post)

As yet another conference kicks off, it underscores the way such collaborations to end the infectious disease only serve to maintain the colonial status quo.

BRICS TB research summit opens in South Africa (post)

JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- The BRICS Tuberculosis Research Network Innovation Summit kicked off on Monday in Durban, South Africa's coastal city, with scientists and senior officials from BRICS countries gathering together to facilitate collaborative research on innovations in tuberculosis diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics and drugs and health systems strengthening.

IJTLD December 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).

December 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.

To prepare for the next pandemic, we must spend now on TB and other major diseases (post)

IJTLD January 2024 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).

Nutritionally acquired immunodeficiency must be addressed with the same urgency as HIV to end TB (post)

TB is the leading infectious killer worldwide, with 10.6 million cases and 1.6 million deaths in 2021 alone. One in 5 incident TB cases were attributable to malnutrition, more than double the fraction attributed to HIV. Like HIV, malnutrition is a cause of secondary immunodeficiency and has even been dubbed nutritionally acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (N-AIDS). However, malnutrition remains the neglected cousin of HIV in global TB elimination efforts. Malnutrition increases the risk for TB progression, increases disease severity, and worsens TB treatment outcomes. Thus, it is both a TB determinant and comorbidity.