Opportunities for civil society and TB communities from EECA region A series of webinars will be conducted to inform representatives of the civil society organizations and communities about opportunities and practical tools available to engage with and influence the national funding requests within the [...]
Advocating for access to DR-TB treatment Late last year, TBEC ran a webinar on advocating for access to DR-TB treatment. This is something that was a focus of our work in 2019, starting from World TB Day when we called on countries in the [...]
Discussing TB and Human Rights in Europe and Central Asia Date: 22-23 November, Kyiv, Ukraine Meeting venue: Hotel Rus, Kyiv On November 22-23 TBEC organized a Community Rights and Gender Regional Workshop on TB and Human Rights. This was a regional event for TB [...]
TB and Universal Health Coverage There is no shortage of high-level political promises on achieving universal health coverage (UHC), ending tuberculosis (TB) and leaving no one behind, as well as recognition of the co-dependency of the agendas to end TB and achieve UHC. For [...]
European Respiratory Society Congress in Madrid Late last year, Paul Sommerfeld (Chair of the TBEC Board) and Oxana Rucsineanu (TBEC Board Member) attended the 2019 European Respiratory Society Congress in Madrid where they presented papers on TB advocacy and patients’ perspectives. Patients are at [...]
World TB Day Conference 2020: TB at the crossroads The Royal Society of Medicine in the UK held a conference for World TB Day entitled ‘TB at the Crossroads – Our Choice?’ This annual TB meeting aimed at discussing recent progress towards elimination of [...]
New report shows highest ever funding for global health research – but gaps persist Many of you will have heard about the urgent need for new tools to prevent, diagnose and treat tuberculosis. We tend to talk about it quite a lot. Recently, [...]
