Items tagged with Global TB response
Digital patient tracking aims to tackle TB crisis in Southern Africa (post)
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, 27 October 2017 — Every year, 500,000 men travel across southern Africa to work in South Africa’s mines. In doing so, they find themselves triply vulnerable to contracting tuberculosis.
Now available: Tools to help support activists in engaging national policy makers on TB (post)
Two unprecedented political opportunities are rapidly approaching– the Global Ministerial Conference and the UN High-Level Meeting on TB. Civil society and community groups have a critical role to play in raising the profile and understanding of the issues we face in TB among government officials and ensuring that the commitments they make at high-level meetings are translated into urgent investments and actions.
Zero TB Cities Initiative in Bangladesh (post)
28 October - Dhaka, Bangladesh - The Bangladesh health ministry launched the Zero TB Cities Initiative in Dhaka on 28 October in the presence of the US ambassador and representatives from the Stop TB Partnership, Harvard Center for Global Health Delivery-Dubai, International Union Against TB and Lung Disease, and other partners.
‘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.
Aidspan publishes new issue of ‘Global Fund Observer’ (post)
Aidspan: Global Fund Observer
Kaiser Family Foundation releases updated fact sheet on U.S. government, global TB efforts (post)
Kaiser Family Foundation: The U.S. Government and Global Tuberculosis Efforts
GHTC releases series of fact sheets on global health R&D (post)
Global Health Technologies Coalition: Fact Sheets on Global Health R&D
Opinion: The intersection between global health and security (post)
A couple of years ago a reporter asked me how I, as the U.N.’s special envoy on Tuberculosis, could emphatically state that TB was a threat to the security of the United States. I often get asked this question, and before giving an answer an agreement must be reached on the definition of global health security.
JID supplement: Using patient pathways to accelerate the drive to ending TB (post)
The Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID) released a special supplement on TB. All articles included in the supplement are open access.
Fighting TB stigma: we need to apply lessons learnt from HIV activism (post)
BMJ Global Health published an article on TB stigma and how lessons learnt from HIV activism can be successfully applied to confront the TB-related stigma.
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