ACTON releases an advocacy tool exploring what funding gaps in the Global Fund’s Grant Cycle 7 mean for the fight against TB and what happens if they are not filled.

International Civil Society Support (ICSS), ACTION and the Global TB Caucus invite community and civil society members to attend a pre-meeting ahead of the 49th Union World Conference on Lung Health on October 23 (full-day) and October 24 (half-day) in the Hague, the Netherlands.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (July 23, 2018) — In preparation for the first ever United Nation’s High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on tuberculosis (TB), to be held September 26, in New York, advocates are calling on the HIV/AIDS community to use the 22^nd International AIDS Conference to draw attention to the deadly link between TB and HIV. The conference, which runs from July 23 to 27, is the last major gathering of both the TB and HIV advocacy communities before the highly anticipated UNHLM on TB. Scores of delegates from across the world are here for the conference.

The first ever phase III trials for multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) finally yielded results. Treatment Action Group (TAG), ACTION, and the Drug-Resistant TB Treatment Scale-up Action Team (DR-TB STAT) presented the results in a webinar held on 12 December 2017. The webinar explored implications for the field, from the delamanid C213 trial and the STREAM trial to evaluate the shorter regimen for MDR-TB.

Exploring the implications of the delamanid phase III and STREAM trial results

The week of 30 January 2017, ACTION will host a public speaking and media skills training for TB research and development (R&D) researchers and affected communities.

A new research report from ACTION shows that while countries have taken steps in the right direction since 2014 to combat the deadly duo of TB and HIV, policy improvements have not all translated into changes at the facility level. Moreover, the burden to carry out TB-HIV activities still falls heavily on under-resourced TB programs.

From October 5-8 2015, the ACTION global health advocacy partnership (www.ACTION.org) will host a public speaking and media skills training for TB and Global Fund advocates working in countries with high burdens of tuberculosis (TB).

The Community Corner is a space for all Union conference attendees to gather, discuss, debate and share ideas on the most pressing issues facing the fight against tuberculosis.

A new research report from ACTION global health shows that joint TB-HIV activities are neglected by HIV programs and overwhelmingly carried out by TB programs, and that global guidelines to address TB-HIV have not been prioritized by leading donors and affected countries.