Items tagged with Global TB response

Report shows growing HIV, TB and malaria crisis in Venezuela (post)

Triple threat: Resurging epidemics, a broken health system, and a global indifference to Venezuela’s crisis

Highlights from the 48th Union World Conference on Lung Health (post)

IJTLD November 2017 TB Stigma supplement 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).

CRS releases new report on U.S. global health assistance from FY01-FY18 request (post)

Congressional Research Service: U.S. Global Health Assistance: FY2001-FY2018 Request

Unitaid-led working group will study how to fight antimicrobial resistance through access to innovative treatments and diagnostics (post)

Geneva, 18 October 2017 – Unitaid has been chosen to chair a new working group on innovation and access for the UN’s Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (IACG), a role that supports global efforts to avert a “post-antibiotic era” in which treatments for common infections no longer work.

IJTLD November 2017 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).

‘Science Speaks’ blog posts present highlights from the 48th Union World Conference on Lung Health (post)

The 48th Union World Conference on Lung Health took place on 11-14 October 2017 in Guadalajara, Mexico under the theme Accelerating Toward Elimination.

The Union reinforces commitment to beating AMR as part of global event (post)

The Union announced a series of commitments to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at a conference, in Berlin on 12 and 13 October 2017, organised by Wellcome in partnership with the UK, Ghanaian and Thai governments and the UN Foundation.

Opinion: We can address, control, and mitigate tuberculosis. Here's how. (post)

The major global health crises of recent decades have, at times, felt insurmountable. The onset of the HIV epidemic in the late 1970s and the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak are prime examples. Yet through concerted and sustained collaborative action, in significant part led by civil society and the affected communities, such crises have over time been addressed, controlled, and increasingly mitigated.

Aidspan publishes new issue of ‘Global Fund Observer’ (post)

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer