Publications

TAG’s latest report on global funding for TB research and development (R&D), published in collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership, presents new data on TB R&D funding in 2018 and analyzes trends in funding since 2005. The report—Tuberculosis Research Funding Trends, 2005–2018—is a critical accountability tool and serves as a barometer of progress in raising support for the scientific innovation needed to eliminate TB.

Key informant semi-structured interview and focus group discussion guides.

Tuberculosis (TB) is curable but it still kills more people globally than any other single infectious disease. This is mainly due to challenges in accessing quality, affordable and equitable TB services and care. Millions of people affected by TB endure its hardships and manage to survive despite these barriers, which are driven by and heightened by TB stigma. Put simply, to end TB, we must end TB stigma.

The goal of the Global Plan is to provide a costed blueprint for actions that countries should take to fulfil the targets and commitments in the Political Declaration of the UNHLM on TB and to get on track to end TB as outlined in the WHO’s End TB Strategy and the SDGs.

BSS in the general population and high-risk groups is proposed to be undertaken thrice during the period 2001 – 2005. To provide an independent evaluation of NACP-II activities, an external agency was contracted for BSS. The present report details the observations of the national baseline BSS survey among the general population, which was conducted in all 32 States and Union Territories of the country. This baseline provides basic information needed to strategize and prioritize programs under NACP-II during its five years of implementation.

The UNDP Gender Equality Strategy 2018-2021, the third such strategy, provides a road map to elevate and integrate gender equality into all aspects of UNDP's work to reduce poverty, build resilience and achieve peace in communities and territories, helping to accelerate progress towards the 2030 Agenda.

In less than 10 years, the Together for Girls partnership has made monumental progress in achieving a safer world for every child, adolescent and young person. Read about the results and priorities.

The survey showed that nearly all health facilities in Bangladesh offer antenatal care for women and curative care for children. A majority of the facilities provide family planning and child vaccination services. Less common services are for non-communicable disease and tuberculosis diagnosis or treatment and normal delivery. The availability of normal delivery services has increased across all types of health facilities with the most notable change among Union Health and Family Welfare Centers (UHFWCs).

The new UNAIDS report, Health, rights and drugs: harm reduction, decriminalization and zero discrimination for people who use drugs, shows that of the 10.6 million people who inject drugs in 2016, more than half were living with hepatitis C and one in eight were living with HIV. It outlines that ensuring that comprehensive harm reduction services are available—including needle–syringe programmes, drug dependence treatment and HIV testing and treatment—will kick-start progress on stopping new HIV infections among people who use drugs.

Gender discrimination and gender-based violence fuel the HIV epidemic. Gender norms in many cultures combined with taboos about sexuality have a huge impact on the ability of adolescent girls and young women to protect their health and prevent HIV, seek health services and make their own informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health and lives.