Items tagged with Global TB response

New Australian-based TB forum calls for end to tuberculosis in the Asia Pacific (post)

Australia’s leading TB experts, researchers and health advocates met with Federal Parliamentarians on the eve of World TB Day to launch the Australasian TB Forum and to call for TB elimination in the Asia Pacific region.

US: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria prompts “National Action Plan,” with global strategies targeting pathogens that include multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (post)

“Antibiotic resistance is a global health problem that requires international attention and collaboration because bacteria do not recognize borders”, National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.

March 2015 issue of PHA now online (post)

Public Health Action is The Union's free access, online journal. The journal aims to promote the vision of The Union, Health solutions for the poor, by disseminating new knowledge on health systems and health services for vulnerable groups, with a priority on tuberculosis, lung health, non-communicable diseases and related public health issues.

New Stop TB Partnership infographics & factsheets (post)

Global Fund: Co-infections and co-morbidities framework approved (post)

The Board approved a recommendation submitted by the Strategy and Investment for Impact Committee to allow countries to use some of their allocations to fund interventions in response to co-infections that can exacerbate HIV, TB or malaria.

Bending the curve: A global investment framework to win the fight against TB (post)

13 April 2015 - Paris, France - A first draft of the next Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020 was today shared for review on the fringes of the opening of the 26th Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board meeting in Paris tomorrow. The Plan will call for a paradigm shift from just controlling TB to ending TB in the fight against the disease over the next five years if the world is to achieve an end to TB, as the World Health Assembly committed in 2014.

IJTLD May 2015 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).

The Global Fund 2014 annual financial report (post)

This document presents the financial statements of the Global Fund for the financial year 2014.

Eastern Europe and Central Asia moving forward in NFM process (post)

Sixteen Eastern European and Central Asian countries (EECA) will submit a total of 27 concept notes to the Global Fund under the new funding model, to access their share of the $659 million allocated to the region. For some of these countries, this is likely to be their last allocation of Fund grants as they transition out of eligibility towards state-funded programs for the fight against HIV and TB.

Coordinating Board Meeting concludes with several critical decision points endorsed (post)

15 April 2015 – Paris, France – The 26th Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board has approved the first draft of the Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020 following a period of review by the Task Force and members of the Board. Over the next four months, online and regional consultations will seek input from anyone working with or affected by TB.