Items tagged with Advocacy
The Union: The latest TB training and education news (post)
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) released its quarterly training and education newsletter (January - March 2023), sharing the latest news and updates from The Union courses.
Opinion: No more excuses — we can end TB in children (post)
Every year, 1.2 million children develop tuberculosis — an airborne, deadly disease that has been around for centuries. Even worse, more than half of these children are never diagnosed, much less treated, and 18% do not survive.
The Union: New Community Advisory Panel elected (post)
The Union has elected a new Community Advisory Panel.
The Union Conference: Community Connect submissions & Track Lead applications now open (post)
Session submissions for Community Connect for The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2023 are now being accepted. Submissions will be open until 5 June.
Call for applications: Vaccine Community Advisory Board (post)
The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) and the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) launched a call for applications for the Vaccine Community Advisory Board (Vax CAB).
MSF welcomes passage of World Health Assembly resolution to help increase access to disease testing (post)
NEW YORK/GENEVA, MAY 26, 2023 — The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes today’s passage of a resolution at the 76th annual United Nations World Health Assembly to strengthen countries’ diagnostic testing capacity. With almost half of the global population having little or no access to disease testing, this resolution is an essential step towards improving global access to diagnostic tools, said MSF. Increasing access to testing for a variety of diseases is critical as it is necessary in order to put people on the best medical treatments possible.
Spotlight on ending TB at the 76th World Health Assembly (post)
Ongoing efforts to end TB were in the spotlight at the 76th World Health Assembly, held 21-30 May 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland. The theme of this year’s Health Assembly was: WHO at 75: Saving lives, driving health for all.
Grow food, not tobacco, to end TB (post)
Undernutrition and tobacco use are major determinants of TB globally. In 2021, of the 10.6 million people who fell ill with TB, 2.2 million were attributable to undernutrition and nearly 0.7 million to tobacco smoking. People who smoke tobacco have double the risk of TB disease, slower recovery, and a higher risk of unfavourable TB treatment outcomes, including recurrence of TB, death, and post-TB pulmonary and cardiovascular disease. Smoking cessation during TB treatment can improve treatment outcomes and has been shown to reduce the risk of TB infection and TB disease among household contacts as well. Improving food security and reducing tobacco smoking globally will therefore contribute significantly to the fight to end TB.
UC TB-CAB: Call for applicants (post)
The University of California at San Francisco and Berkeley Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (UC TRAC) is launching a Tuberculosis Community Advisory Board (UC TB-CAB) in August 2023.
The ABC for a TB Activist: 1/4/6×24 Campaign and supportive diagnostics (post)
On 15 June, 2023, TB Europe Coalition (TBEC) organized a webinar featuring a presentation by Treatment Action Group’s TB Project Officer, David Branigan, on the practical actions advocates can take to promote the adoption and scale up of shorter, safer 1/4/6 regimens for TB prevention and the treatment of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB as well as supportive diagnostics. The webinar discusses specific advocacy strategies to ensure these regimens and diagnostics are included in Global Fund proposals as well as in National Strategic Plans, to promote increased availability and access in countries. This webinar is part of the TBEC webinar series: The ABC for a TB Activist.
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