Registration is now OPEN for the first-ever UN high-level Meeting on TB 29 June 2018, Geneva - Registration is now open for the first-ever UN High Level Meeting (UNHLM) on TB, which will be held on 26 September 2018 in New York. The UNHLM will be held on the theme ?United to end tuberculosis: an urgent global response to a global epidemic?, and will bring together Heads of State to commit to accelerated action to end TB.
Countdown to the first-ever UN High-Level Meeting on TB 27 June 2018, Geneva - Only 90 days are left to the first-ever UN High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on TB, which will bring together Heads of State in New York on 26 September 2018. Now is the time for everyone to engage, support, amplify messages and work to ensure a very successful event in September. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop TB Partnership together with partners are working to rally highest level participation and a strong political declaration for a successful and impactful UNHLM.
Water-limited landscapes can facilitate disease transmission In water-limited landscapes sick animals can have increased contact with healthy individuals, which can facilitate disease transmission. Scientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) present these findings in the British Ecological Society journal Functional Ecology.
New study shows how vitamin A effectively supports lung immunity against TB Scientists at Trinity College Dublin and St James's Hospital, Dublin, have discovered how vitamin A drives the lung immune system to deal with tuberculosis (TB). The findings have just been published in a top respiratory journal, the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology.
