As researchers and professionals it is our duty to use our platform alongside TB survivors to keep demanding resource both to discover new and better tools but also to apply what we know effectively. UK Academics & Professionals to End TB are one model on how to do organise political advocacy within country and you can access our recent webinar here.

Closing the know-do gap by applying what we know and using our voices together to demand the resources required: Yes. We can End TB!

As researchers and professionals it is our duty to use our platform alongside TB survivors to keep demanding resource both to discover new and better tools but also to apply what we know effectively. UK Academics & Professionals to End TB are one model on how to do organise political advocacy within country and you can access our recent webinar here.

Closing the know-do gap by applying what we know and using our voices together to demand the resources required: Yes. We can End TB!

2023 UNHLM TB Briefing for Academics & Healthcare Workers

10th March 2023 | 8AM EST | 1PM GMT | 4PM EAT | 6.30PM IST

Join us to learn more about this important process and how academics and healthcare workers can engage! Register here: https://forms.gle/EKUaZLATcRkyEMbi9

I was scared, frightened and unsure what a diagnosis of multidrug resistant tuberculosis meant.

My experience has motivated me to work with people who...are facing some of the same difficulties I have had to overcome. I am determined to show how TB needs to be understood by breaking down some of the ignorance I have witnessed from within the health service, at work and within my community.

“Merry Christmas – we think it’s TB.

Ok, so that is not exactly how I was told that I might have TB, but when I put the phone down to the manager of my local doctor’s surgery at 4.50pm on Christmas Eve back in 2015, it might as well have been.”

Samara Barnes is Affected Community Co-Lead of UKAPTB. She was diagnosed with active pulmonary TB in late 2015 and it was discovered she was also drug resistant a little while into her treatment. Until that point, Samara knew little about the illness apart from the fact that her grandad had died of TB many years previously.  Hear more of her story here!

UKAPTB calls for the FCDO to commit £1.8bn over 3 years to replenish the Global Fund.

In 2015, the international community came together to agree the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - a set of stretching goals to be achieved by 2030 which cover a plethora of public policy issues. One of the most important goals, SDG 3.3, calls on the international community to ‘end the epidemics of AIDS, TB, Malaria, neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases’. With only 8 years left to achieve these targets, it’s vital the international community acts now to end these epidemics.

UKAPTB members have co-authored an article in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, comparing and contrasting the COVID-19 and TB pandemics. An abridged version of the article is below. It is the worst of times. We are facing a pandemic. A quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be infected. By the end of 2020, it is likely that 10 million people will have fallen ill, three million will not have been tested and treated, and over 1 million, mostly vulnerable people, will die. This pandemic is not caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which leads to COVID-19.

The running order and booking details for the popular annual World TB Day symposium have been announced. The event will take place in central London on Tuesday, 24th March, coinciding with other activities worldwide. UKAPTB members are involved in running the symposium, which provides the London tuberculosis community with the opportunity to gather and hear about the latest research in the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Representatives from University College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Francis Crick Institute and Birkbeck, University of London have been planning the programme to provide a wide range

Three UKAPTB member organisations joined forces on 22nd March 2019 to host a World TB Day symposium featuring talks from a wide range of tuberculosis researchers. The symposium attracted a packed house of over 300 attendees who came to hear over 20 speakers present and discuss their work. Now in its tenth year, the symposium, co-organised by UCL, LSHTM and this year’s hosts, the Francis Crick Institute, gives the TB community an annual opportunity to catch up on the latest research, and with each other! 2019’s symposium was further enhanced by a two-hour live link-up with the University of California

In November, UKAPTB member the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine hosted a memorable visit from four Members of Parliament. Three local MPs, Dame Louise Ellman (Liverpool Riverside), Angela Eagle (Wallasey) and Dan Carden (Liverpool Walton), were joined by All Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB co-chair Nick Herbert (Arundel and South Downs). A full report of the visit is on the APPG’s website. A recording of Nick Herbert’s lecture from the day is available here.

The co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis and Global TB Caucus, Nick Herbert MP, and other local MPs (including Louise Ellman MP, Dan Carden MP, and Angela Eagle MP) will be visiting Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) on Friday 16th November 2018.

UKAPTB and leading tuberculosis charity TB Alert have joined forces to host a session at the Union World Conference on Lung Health in The Hague. The session, “What is the pathway to developing more effective collaboration between civil society and academia in applied health research?”, is free to attend and open to all, taking place at 13.15-14.15 (please note this is later than the originally published time) on Thursday, 25th October in the Community Space section of the venue.

Earlier this week, several members of our group were in New York to participate in the United Nations High Level Meeting on Tuberculosis.

On June 7th, MPs in Parliament dedicated a House of Commons Chamber debate to TB for the first time in 65 years.

Today, UK Academics and Professionals to End Tuberculosis sent a letter to the Prime Minister, which calls on her to attend the first ever United Nations High Level Meeting on Tuberculosis, in New York next month.

2018 is a landmark year for TB, with the first ever United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Meeting (HLM) on the fight against tuberculosis planned for the 26th September in New York. The HLM aims to deliver an ambitious political declaration on TB endorsed by Heads of State, that will strengthen action and investments to end TB.