Items tagged with Global TB response

The Union highlights child TB on the International Day of Families (post)

Today, May 15, on the United Nation’s International Day of Families, The Union highlights the urgent call to action against child tuberculosis (TB).

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

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer

Leveraging technology and innovation to end AIDS and TB (post)

Leaders from both the private and public sectors have called for fresh investment models for new technologies and the smarter roll-out of innovations to end AIDS and tuberculosis by 2030.

Global Fund posts highlight importance of investment in its efforts to end HIV, TB, malaria epidemics (post)

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

Venezuela faces a complex humanitarian emergency that is expanding and cascading throughout the Latin American region and around the globe. New research from ICASO and ACCSI reveal that health, economic, security and social wellbeing projections are far worse than previously estimated.

TB, among the oldest infectious diseases, is now the world’s deadliest – It’s Time to invest in solutions (post)

GENEVA  (May 22, 2019) - This week at the Seventy-second World Health Assembly, TB Alliance is joining our partners in global health and product development to urge increased global funding and action to eradicate tuberculosis (TB). Today, delegates are assessing progress made since last year’s UN High Level Meeting (HLM) on TB as well as the 2017 HLM on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

Gender inequality is seriously harming the global fight against TB (post)

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious airborne disease that attacks the lungs of the person it infects. Statistically, more men contract TB around the world, but health experts in developing countries argue that the disease's social impacts on women affect far more than their physical health.

Tuberculosis: Seminar (post)

A seminar published in The Lancet presents an overview of the global TB response (epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, care and political will to end TB) and the challenges that need to be addressed.

IJTLD May 2019 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).

Stop TB Partnership newsletter: What did you do? (post)

The Stop TB Partnership released a newsletter, presenting the progress countries have made on the UN High-Level Meeting on TB targets and commitments. It also contains information about initiatives and activities carried out by the Stop TB Partnership.