We invite our global community of advocates and health workers to help us to share information about the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health, which is taking place online as a fully virtual event. Please use these distinctive and easily shareable materials to support the Union World Conference.

Background

• While international travel and large gatherings remain restricted due to COVID-19, The Union has decided that the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health will take place virtually.
• This is providing us with a fantastic opportunity to innovate on our conference model that is familiar to the thousands of delegates who have participated in previous Union World Conferences.
• The conference theme is ‘Advancing Prevention’. Prevention is a key element to ending tuberculosis, reducing tobacco use and improving lung health worldwide. Yet prevention has previously been neglected as a research and operational priority in this sector.
• The conference theme resonates throughout all aspects of lung health, including air pollution, reducing the harm directly caused by tobacco use, and the impact of co-morbidities including HIV and diabetes, as well as COVID-19.

How to get involved:

• Follow us on Twitter, on Facebook and on Instagram and use the hashtags #UnionConf and #AdvancingPrevention
• Share our sample social media messages or write your own
• Download and share our #UnionConf memes across your social platforms
• Sign up to receive updates about the conference

Sample social media

#Tuberculosis is the world’s deadliest infectious disease and accounts for 1.5 million preventable deaths every year. At #UnionConf we will be focusing on #AdvancingPrevention so together we can #EndTB.

“We must ensure we’re focusing not just on curing #tuberculosis but preventing #TB before it begins,” says @JLCastroGarcia, Executive Director, @TheUnion_TBLH Join us at #UnionConf. #AdvancingPrevention #EndTB

The @TheUnion_TBLH #UnionConf is the largest global gathering on lung health, including #tuberculosis, #tobaccocontrol #airpollution. Join the global lung health debate online at our first virtual conference. Register now. #AdvancingPrevention.

Care about lung health?  Join us at #UnionConf for the latest on #TB research, treatment and prevention as well as the latest on #airpollution #asthma #COPD and #NoTobacco Join the debate: worldlunghealth.org  #AdvancingPrevention.

“With 15 million deaths every year directly resulting from #airpollution, join us at #UnionConf to put lung health top of the global health agenda” says @Marks1Guy, President @TheUnion_TBLH #AdvancingPrevention #EndTB

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