31 August -- In early 2009, a meeting was held in Geneva between the World Health Organization (WHO) Stop TB Department and Department of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion, the World Diabetes Foundation and The Union to discuss how to respond to the growing threat of diabetes-associated tuberculosis. Now after much collaborative work between these and other stakeholders, the WHO/Union Collabor...

Many are encouraging rapid and wide implementation of the new TB diagnostic test Xpert ® MTB/RIF. In the December issue of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD), The Union's TB experts offered their perspective on this issue.

This year has seen The Union's grantees under the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use make important advances in tobacco control. As acknowledged by a recent five-year report on the Initiative, country by country, progress is being made.

In January 2012, Professor Guy Marks, of the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia, replaces Professor Donald Enarson as Editor in Chief for Lung Diseases in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD). Read more ...

The TREAT TB Initiative has published two new guides for public health professionals and other researchers: Operational Research: A Guide to Country Level Implementation and Programme Support and Operational Research to Improve Health Services: A Guide for Proposal Development. Read more. . .