National Action Plan for Combatting MDR-TB continues to be a work in progress
Categories: TBFirst year report describes assessments of needs, strategies, opportunities In December 2015, tuberculosis response advocates welcomed the release of a White House National Action Plan...
View ArticleThe multi-national network of TB Portals advances tuberculosis research
Categories: TBThe following is a guest post by Jessica Taaffe, PhD In the current environment of limited tuberculosis research funding, TB research can benefit significantly from data-centric...
View ArticleAdding up tolls of drug resistance, threats to research and hurdles to...
Categories: TB“We’re not here because tuberculosis is like the common cold and makes you feel bad, we’re here because TB kills people” Washington, DC – From a six-year-old girl who came home to the...
View ArticleNew Drugs, New Hope to End TB in Peru
Photos by William Castro Rodríguez / Partners In HealthField technician Gaby Merlin Contreras provides the new TB drug, Bedaquiline, to a patient in Lima, Peru. For the first time in 50 years, two new...
View ArticleStudy projects drug-resistant tuberculosis transmissions to climb in four...
Categories: TBUsing data on outcomes and impacts of tuberculosis across four countries with some of the highest rates of the disease, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
View ArticleWHO sets stage of for global ministerial TB conference, seeks input on...
Categories: TBNovember Moscow conference will inform 2018 United Nations high level meeting When ministers of health and leaders of other government offices and agencies worldwide gather in Moscow this...
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