Bring Tuberculosis Out Of The Dark Into Light....

...So said Gerry Elsdon, the very svelte TV broadcaster from South Africa, during the 10th anniversary celebrations of  theGlobal Alliance for TB Drug Development  (TB Alliance), during the  41st Union World Conference on Lung Health, Berlin, Germany...

The Union's approach to child pneumonia cuts deaths

WORLD PNEUMONIA DAY, 12 November 2010Every 20 seconds pneumonia causes a preventable tragedy somewhere in the world. That's how often a child under five dies of a disease that is preventable, treatable and curable with existing vaccines and antibiotics. World Pneumonia Day,...

Stop The Child From Turning Blue: Fight Pneumonia

[World Pneumonia Day, 12 November 2010]The second World Pneumonia Day is being held on November 12, 2010. World Pneumonia Day was launched in 2009 by a broad coalition of public and non profit organizations, the Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia, to mobilize efforts to...

TB Alliance Launches First Clinical Trial of a Novel TB Drug

Berlin 2010: TB Alliance Launches First Clinical Trial of a Novel TB Drug RegimenShobha Shukla - CNS***************************On the eve of the 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health, being held in Berlin, Germany (11-15 November 2010), the Global Alliance for TB Drug...

47 per cent TB patients remain unreached in Chhattisgarh

"47% of TB cases are being missed by the state TB programme" said Dr DN Dewangan, State TB Officer in Chhattisgarh (every year, expected number of TB cases in Chhattisgarh is 51,840 and number of those TB patients registered under revised national TB control programme...

Poverty impedes access to existing tuberculosis (TB) services

Poverty not only makes poor people more vulnerable to tuberculosis (TB) but also makes them less likely to access the existing TB-related prevention, treatment and care services. There is substantial number of active TB patients that are still not reached by existing TB...

Poor people are most hard-hit by TB, COPD and tobacco

Tobacco use, tuberculosis (TB), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are all burgeoning problems in resource poor settings. The evidence of their potentially devastating effects on global public health is increasing and they require a coordinated approach for...

Berlin 2010: TB, HIV and Lung Health

The 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health will be held on 11-15 November 2010 in Berlin, Germany, and is expected to be attended by 2500 delegates from over 100 countries. The theme of this year's conference is "Tuberculosis (TB), HIV and lung health: from research and...

Up to 1-in-5 TB deaths attributed to tobacco use

The 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health hardly two weeks ahead of us, the issues which emerged at the 39th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Paris, France, where CNS was present, are worth re-visiting. With 50% of all deaths from lung...

Europe's last holdout relents: Multiculturalism has failed

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has stated to her citizens and the world on Saturday that Germany’s attempt to create a multicultural society has "utterly failed,” Germany, though seen by many as making an attempt to make multiculturalism work, in part through...