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The country card snapshot prepared by UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific and AIDS Data Hub provides information on the HIV epidemic and response in Papua New Guinea.

The country card snapshot prepared by UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific and AIDS Data Hub provides information on the HIV epidemic and response in Iran (Islamic Republic of).

Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2022 presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals, calling out the long road ahead to achieve gender equality. It emphasizes the interlinkages among the goals, the pivotal force gender equality plays in driving progress across the SDGs, and women and girls’ central role in leading the way forward.  

This document is one of a series spotlighting the experiences of these early implementers when using artificial intelligence (AI) / computer-aided detection (CAD), to highlight the added value of CAD for TB programmes and inspire prospective implementers to innovate. Funding of this project was provided by the Stop TB Partnership’s TB REACH initiative, launched in 2010 by Global Affairs Canada. In 2012, TB REACH first worked with implementing partners to pilot CAD software.

The Global Plan to End TB, 2023–2030 (Global Plan) is a plan for ending tuberculosis (TB) as a public health challenge by 2030—the year by which governments around the world have committed to achieving the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals. This document provides the most detailed costing estimates of any Global Plan to date and builds on the previous edition, Paradigm Shift, which laid out priority actions for 2018–2022 informed by global commitments endorsed by Member States at the 2018 UN High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on TB. This Global Plan anticipates the priority actions that will be necessary in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and informs follow-up commitments to be made at a second UNHLM on TB in 2023.

The Framework for collaborative action on TB and comorbidities aims to support countries in the evidence-informed introduction and scale-up of holistic people-centred services for TB, comorbidities and health-related risk factors, with the goal of comprehensively addressing TB and other co-existing health conditions. It should be used in conjunction with relevant WHO guidelines. ties. The Framework is intended for use by people working in ministries of health, other relevant line-ministries, policymakers, international technical and funding organizations, researchers, nongovernmental and civil society organizations, as well as primary care workers, specialist health practitioners, and community health workers who support the response to TB and comorbidities in both the public and private sectors.

The operational handbook provides laboratory personnel, clinicians as well as ministries of health and technical partners detailed guidance on how to implement the WHO evidence-based recommendations on TB infection tests. The document describes the WHO recommended tests, test procedures, a model algorithm, and the steps required to scale-up TB infection testing within a health programme.

The country card snapshot prepared by UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific and AIDS Data Hub provides information on the HIV epidemic and response in Cambodia.

The country card snapshot prepared by UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific and AIDS Data Hub provides information on the HIV epidemic and response in Lao PDR.

The country card snapshot prepared by UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific and AIDS Data Hub provides information on the HIV epidemic and response in Malaysia.