Items tagged with Global TB response
Request for submission of Good Practices on implementation of the Tuberculosis Action Plan for the WHO European Region, 2016–2020 (post)
The Tuberculosis Action Plan for the WHO European Region, 2016–2020 has been developed to operationalize the global WHO End TB Strategy in the regional context. The Plan sets a regional goal and targets for the care and control of TB and drug-resistant TB from 2016 to 2020. It is currently in a midway of its implementation.
GCTA newsletter: November 2017 issue (post)
The Global Coalition of TB Activists (GCTA) released the latest edition of its quarterly newsletter highlighting the GCTA's activities at the Global Ministerial Conference on TB held on 16-17 November 2017 in Moscow, Russia and the 48th Union World Conference on Lung Health held on 11-14 October 2017 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
World Human Rights Day, the human right to health requires urgent unified action (post)
On World Human Rights Day, The Union restates the need for greater political action in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for health, including ending the deadly epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) by 2030 and to ensure that all people can fulfil their human right to health.
Aidspan publishes new issue of ‘Global Fund Observer’ (post)
Aidspan: Global Fund Observer
No UHC without strong TB response, no ending TB without UHC (post)
Geneva, 13 December 2017 – On the occasion of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day, dedicated to ensuring that everyone in the world can access the health services they need without suffering financial hardship, the side event “Reaching the underserved and vulnerable: TB responses as a pathway to UHC” took place yesterday in Tokyo in the framework of the UHC Forum 2017.
IJTLD January 2018 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).
2017 year in review (post)
The WHO Global TB Program, the Stop TB Partnership and The Union released publications highlighting the major achievements in the global TB response in 2017.
December 2017 issue of Public Health Action now online (post)
Public Health Action is the free access, online journal of The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. The journal focuses on tuberculosis, lung health, non-communicable diseases and related public health issues.
Tuberculosis: criteria for global leadership? (post)
Tereza Kasaeva is to be the new Director of WHO's Global Tuberculosis (TB) Programme. She joins WHO from Russia's Ministry of Health. But instead of a warm welcome, she will arrive in Geneva amid potentially disabling controversy.
WHO: New directors in leadership team selected on merit first (post)
The new World Health Organization director general last month announced a range of officials to serve as programme directors, touting the unusual achievement of naming almost all women to add to an overall women’s majority in the senior leadership of the organisation – a first for the UN. Now after some questions arose over the choice of a Russian official to head up efforts against tuberculosis, the WHO defended its choices as fully merit-based, including in an email to Intellectual Property Watch and its sister publication Global Health Policy News.
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