Items tagged with Global TB response

Stop TB Partnership launches tools for TB programs and TB communities on TB and COVID-19 (post)

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the world, countries are rushing to put in place strategies to ease the burden on health systems and to mitigate disruption in routine health services. The current social distancing and stay-at-home measures will make it particularly challenging for tuberculosis (TB) programs to provide the necessary diagnosis, treatment and care for the people and communities affected by TB.

Virtual Innovation Spotlights on health tech solutions for TB and COVID-19 (post)

To support country programs, communities, people affected by TB, and partners during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stop TB Partnership’s Strategic Initiatives & Innovative Financing (SIIF) Team, as part of its Re-Imagining TB Care initiative, is organising a series of Virtual Innovation Spotlights to share various health tech solutions that can be used to:

Strengthening accountability to end TB (post)

WHO offers national assessment Checklist for the Multisectoral Accountability Framework for TB (MAF-TB)

Innovative and people-empowered approaches to end TB deaths (post)

There is clear urgency for bringing quality and effective tuberculosis (TB) prevention, treatment and care closer to communities. These efforts should entail empowering communities to use innovative community-based TB services, which have been shown to have a high impact and to be cost-effective.

News coverage of COVID-19 impact on TB services (post)

Study tracking total spending on TB efforts in LMICs (post)

TB programs, trials pause as COVID-19 spreads (post)

MANILA — As the Indian health ministry considers banning the export of anti-tuberculosis drugs to ensure sufficient domestic supply, aid groups have expressed concern.

March 2020 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 TB, lung health, non-communicable diseases and related public health issues.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Apply to be a member of the WHO Civil Society Task Force on TB (post)

Call for expressions of interest from the World Health Organization (WHO) Region of the Americas with an extended deadline until 3 May 2020. The aim of the Task Force is to intensify the voice of civil society in ending TB at all levels.

The COVID-19 pandemic must not divert attention from the needs of children and adolescents in TB-endemic African countries (post)

Wednesday, 22 April 2020 (Paris, France) – If resources are diverted away from child and adolescent tuberculosis (TB) programmes in order to fight COVID-19, the consequences for the estimated 400,000 children and adolescents in the African region needing TB and multidrug-resistant TB care each year could be devastating, warned the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) today.