Items tagged with Global TB response

Less than one week to go: First WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending TB (post)

75 Ministers, 114 country delegations and over 1000 participants registered

World Antibiotic Awareness Week 13-19 November to draw attention to global AMR threat (post)

World Antibiotic Awareness Week will take place next week from 13-19 November, shining a spotlight on the growing crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The first descriptions of infectious diseases becoming resistant to the antimicrobial treatments available were in 1948 and were for drugs used to treat tuberculosis (TB).

Tuberculosis makes it onto the international political agenda for health...finally (post)

On the eve before the First WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending TB in Moscow, Lancet Global Health published a Commentary on the Conference and the political spotlight on TB in the global political agenda.

IJTLD December 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).

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

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer

World AIDS Day 2017 messages (post)

WHO and Global Fund sign cooperation agreement (post)

01 December 2017 | GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) extended their close partnership with a new cooperation agreement to help countries accelerate efforts to end the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic by 2030. The overall agreement includes financing support for all three diseases - HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria, as part of efforts to achieve universal health coverage.

UN Missions meet in New York to build momentum towards the UN High-Level Meeting on TB (post)

Member States’ UN Missions convened at UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday 29th November for a briefing on next year’s UN High-Level Meeting (HLM) on tuberculosis (TB).

Advancing political will to end the tuberculosis epidemic (post)

A comment published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases reflects on the state of the global TB response.

TB epidemic desperately needs new vaccination strategies (post)

At the beginning of November, a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Minnesota killed six people and made front page news. A single case in New York State made regional news last week. And so it goes, here in the U.S.. Wherever it appears, TB is an unexpected and frightening intrusion likely to draw media attention.