New TB Diagnostics Website Unveiled
As scientists scramble to find new TB diagnostic tools to replace the antiquated and often unreliable sputum microscopy, there is now a one-stop shop to help keep track of developments in this...
View ArticleIDSA Joins the Stop TB Partnership's TB/HIV Working Group
The Stop TB Partnership has made the Infectious Diseases Society of America an organizational member of its TB/HIV working group, a reflection of IDSA’s increasingly visible work on these twin global...
View ArticleViet Nam Hosts Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board–Showcases Progress in...
This post is by Global Center Director Christine Lubinski. Viet Nam was an fitting spot for last week’s meeting of the Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board, since the country’s anti-TB efforts...
View ArticleCatching up: TB talk show, Addictophobia, the gap between sex worker data and...
In the lull following AIDS 2012, Science Speaks is catching up on reading — and watching — pieces that came out in the days before and during the conference. Tuberculosis and HIV: Protecting the...
View ArticleGlobal Fund TB allocation shows need for work, action, groups say
When the Global Fund Board released its September meeting “decision points” document on funding allocation methods, it was, watchers noted, a part of a piece of a work in progress. But one decision...
View ArticleBlueprint: Plan for HIV must specify TB response
Dr. Lucica Ditiu, executive secretary of the Stop TB Partnership, began her career with the World Health Organization as a medical officer for TB in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia working with all...
View ArticleNIH-funded TB drug trial is latest effort to fill treatment pipeline
A 14-day trial enrolling 75 Cape Town South Africa patients, to see if a new investigational drug lowers tuberculosis bacteria counts represents the latest hope for filling the need for treatment...
View ArticleTB Week: Tuberculosis control in India — time to think beyond DOTS
In the week leading up to International Tuberculosis Day, which commemorates the discovery by Robert Koch of the cause of the disease in 1882, Science Speaks will look at issues, events and efforts to...
View ArticleActing globally and locally –TB community activists form worldwide coalition
A group of tuberculosis community activists is taking their quest for representation in responses to TB global, joining efforts across borders to make their voices heard, an announcement this week...
View ArticleReport: Economic cost of flatlining HIV, TB, Malaria funds? Millions of...
Now is the time to step up investments, says report, which pegs costs of stalled HIV prevention at $47 billion, of undiagnosed TB at a million unnecessary deaths, and of malaria prevention and...
View ArticleTowards Zero Deaths: Roadmap for Childhood Tuberculosis builds on proven steps
For years the most helpless victims of tuberculosis have also been the least noticed, although they are estimated to comprise up to 10 percent — or more, as they often go uncounted as well — of people...
View ArticleTB Reach project results show need for new approaches to lift case detection...
For a decade and a half after the World Health Organization launched the expansion of directly observed treatment for tuberculosis, strides against the disease, highlighted by a nearly six-fold...
View ArticleTB drug approvals, distribution deal inches options forward, but MDR TB...
Last week’s developments in TB treatment included the announcement that bedaquiline, the currently most promising medicine for multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, will become available to patients in...
View Article“Case?”“Suspect?”“Trafficking?”“Industry?” We’re reading guides on how to...
Categories: What we're readingTags: Sisonke, Stop TB Partnership, SWEATEvery Word Counts – “One of the most effective tools against tuberculosis is education . . .” This guide to language and usage for...
View ArticleLockdowns due to COVID-19 projected to stall TB detection and treatment...
While stay-in-place and physical distancing measures to control the spread of COVID-19 are projected to also slow the spread of other illnesses, lockdowns prompted by that pandemic will delay TB...
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