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Nominations are now being received for The Union Awards, to be presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health in Seville, Spain.

More details about each of the awards can be found on The Union website by clicking on the links below or on the nominations page.

Nominations are now open for the following prizes:

• The Union Young Investigator Prize: Acknowledges a researcher for work in lung health published in the past five years, when aged 35 years or younger.
• The Union Scientific Prize: Acknowledges researchers at any stage of their career for work in lung health published in the past five years.
• The Karel Styblo Public Health Prize: Acknowledges a health worker or a community organisation for contributions to tuberculosis (TB) control over a period of ten years or more.
• The Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize: Acknowledges young researchers conducting promising work focused on reducing the disease burden of TB and HIV/AIDS in Africa.
• The Princess Chichibu Global Memorial TB Award: Recognises outstanding contributions to global TB control. Awarded by the Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association (JATA). For this award, the call for nominations is for award in 2021.
• The Union Medal – for members only: Awarded to members who have made an outstanding contribution to the control of TB or lung health by their scientific work and/or actions in the field.
• Honorary Member – for members only: Granted to a person who has become distinguished through active participation in The Union's activities and the fulfilment of its goals.

The awards will be presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health to be held from 21-24 October 2020 in Seville, Spain.

Nominations will close on 31 March 2020.

Any queries should be sent to awards@theunion.org for the first four scientific prizes in the list above, and to nominatingcommittee@theunion.org for The Union Medal, Honorary Member and Princess Chichibu Award.

Visit: https://www.theunion.org/what-we-do/awards/nomination-and-applications?utm_source=The+Union+Marketing&utm_campaign=04e1b26e47-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_13_04_39&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e2dbdf856e-04e1b26e47-248828829

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Since 2014, EDCTP invested more than €600 million of funding in European-African research & development partnerships engaged in developing new and improved interventions for the poverty-related infectious diseases affecting sub-Saharan Africa.

We wish you all a happy festive season, restful holidays, and a healthy and successful 2020!

Congratulations to Dr Nicaise Ndembi on his recent appointment as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Public Health in Africa!

The Journal of Public Health in Africa is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality original articles, reviews, comments and opinions on public health and related issues in Africa. In 2018, Africa CDC signed an agreement with the publisher, Page Press, to make the journal its official journal. While Page Press continues to take responsibility for publishing, Africa CDC manages the editorial oversight and peer review system of the journal. This initiative by Africa
CDC is to contribute to the increase in scientific knowledge and networking between Africa and the global community, ensure that public health research in Africa is adequately and accurately reported by Africans, and encourage more researchers from Africa to publish articles in the journal.

PhD student Kennedy Michael Ngowi supervised by Dr Marion Sumari-de Boer (CDF972) wins best Abstract @ ICASA 2019 - Congratulations!

Track B: Clinical Science, Treatment and Care

Abstract Title: Real Time Medication Monitoring improves virological outcome among People Living with HIV on Antiretroviral Treatment in Moshi, Tanzania

For more details view http://www.icasa2019rwanda.org/abstracts/best-abstract-awards.html