Items tagged with Global TB response
UNICEF and Unitaid join forces to improve the health of children, adolescents and mothers (post)
Geneva, 29 May 2019 –Unitaid and UNICEF will collaborate to save the lives of more children, adolescents and mothers, an agreement formalized by a memorandum of understanding signed today.
May 2019 edition of The Union's newsletter (post)
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) released its May 2019 newsletter, presenting the initiatives and activities carried out during the month, including The Union's interventions at the 72nd World Health Assembly, a message from the Executive Director José Luis Castro on World No Tobacco Day 2019 with a focus on smoking as a major risk factor for TB, information about new available resources online and upcoming events.
Dr Tereza Kasaeva: World No Tobacco Day message (post)
Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director of the World Health Organization Global TB Program, released a message on World No Tobacco Day 2019 (May 31) with a focus on tobacco and lung health. Tobacco smoking more than doubles the risk of developing TB and increases the risk of dying from respiratory failure.
Spotlight on ending TB at the 72nd World Health Assembly (post)
Member States and partners at the 72nd World Health Assembly, held 20-28 May 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland, reaffirmed their commitment to the Political Declaration of the UN High-Level Meeting on TB and its targets, and shared actions taken in follow-up.
Aidspan publishes new issue of ‘Global Fund Observer’ (post)
Aidspan: Global Fund Observer
Major R&D funding needed to reach 2030 goal for ending TB epidemic (post)
Nine months after a historic high-level UN meeting where countries pledged to end the global tuberculosis epidemic by 2030, a chronic lack of R&D financing jeopardises that ambitious goal, said expert panelists at a briefing on the TB R&D landscape last week in Geneva, hosted by South Africa’s Permanent Mission to the UN.
June 2019 edition of The Union's newsletter (post)
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) released its June 2019 newsletter, presenting the initiatives and activities carried out during the month, including a message from the Executive Director José Luis Castro on lung health and well-being after TB. It also contains information about upcoming events.
June 2019 edition of the Stop TB Partnership's newsletter (post)
The Stop TB Partnership released its June 2019 newsletter, presenting the initiatives and activities carried out during the month. It also contains information about upcoming events.
USAID signs Statement of Partnership with Health Ministry to combat TB in Bangladesh (post)
Dhaka, Tuesday, June 25 –Today, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) committed to deepen their partnership to end Tuberculosis (TB) in Bangladesh. The new Statement of Partnership (SP) establishes a shared framework between the MoHFW and USAID to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis by 2022 through increasing case detection and treatment of all forms of TB. This partnership marks the latest example of USAID’s new model of partnership, the “Global Accelerator to End Tuberculosis,” which aims to catalyze investments and aid countries across the world and meet the UN target of treating 40 million people by 2022. Through their signature, the MoHFW also reaffirmed Bangladesh’s commitment to significantly reduce cases of TB by 2022. At the signing, USAID Mission Director Derrick Brown noted, “Today, by signing the Statement of Partnership, we at USAID recommit ourselves as a close partner of the Bangladesh government, as the country accelerates its efforts to achieve their targets by 2022. Bangladesh needs to detect and treat more than 1.5 million new TB cases over the next five years. USAID Bangladesh will strongly collaborate with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in their mission of identifying, preventing, and treating all undetected forms of TB cases.”
Stop TB Partnership and IAPAC sign Memorandum of Understanding (post)
3 July 2019 I Geneva, Switzerland – The Stop TB Partnership and the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC) are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will further focus their respective efforts on ending tuberculosis (TB) in large affected urban areas.
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