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Watch Video from the World TB Day Congressional Briefing
A briefing and update on tuberculosis (TB), a disease that is curable but still takes the lives of 4,000 people each day and is the number one killer of people living with HIV. Links to video included.
Posted in Faces of TB, TB Patient Perspective, TB R&D Spotlight Interviews, TB Stigma, Voices from the Fight to Stop Tuberculosis, WGND Podcast Series
Community Engagement through Drama
Dr. Gill Black is the co-founder and Director of Health and Welfare at The Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation (SLF). In this inteview, we discuss with Dr. Black one of SLF’s groundbreaking projects that uses drama to engage local communities around issues related to TB and HIV/AIDS.
TB R&D Update: Strategies for Early and Late Stage Drug Development
This week, we are highlighting two articles published online in the Journal of Infectious Diseases in March. The first article by Coxon, et al., looks at the benefits and limitations of the two main approaches to compound discovery for TB, target-based and phenotypic-based. The second article by Phillips, et al., would like TB clinical trialists to consider new strategies or designs for evaluating TB drug regimens which could alleviate a bottleneck as new drugs and consequently new potential drug combinations move into clinical testing. Additional links to TB R&D publications and news are included.
Working Group on New TB Drugs Launches Strategic Plan 2011-2015
The WGND Strategic Plan 2011-2015 is an update of the “New Drugs” section of the Global Plan to Stop TB: 2011-2015. It describes the progress, gaps, and vision of the WGND and the TB drug development field as a whole.
TB R&D Update: 243rd American Chemistry Society Conference
The 243rd American Chemistry Society National Meeting and Exposition is being held in San Diego, California, from March 26 to March 29. There are several presentations on tuberculosis. Here are the abstracts of a few of the talks. The first item received news coverage and discusses two approved antibiotics that may prove effective in treating TB. Additional links to TB R&D News are included.
Announcing the InnovateTB Contest
Announcing the InnovateTB contest! Innovations are revolutionizing TB. Tell us your story! On World TB Day, the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New TB Drugs (WGND) announces the InnovateTB Contest to encourage and highlight innovations to achieve zero deaths from TB in this generation. We are inviting interested participants to take two simple steps: [...]
World TB Day! Overview of Events, News and Messages
Saturday, March 24, is officially World TB Day but there has been a stream of activities, publications, news and messages to let the world not forget about this major infectious disease killer that claims millions of lives each year. We present links and summaries of events, publications, messages, and news coverage leading up to World TB Day.
World TB Day Coverage: New Combo TB Drug Trial Announced
During the “Cure All: A briefing on the status of the most promising new TB drugs research” sponsored by the Critical Path to New TB Drug Regimens (CPTR) on Monday, March 19, Dr. Mel Spigelman, CEO & President, of TB Alliance announced the launch of the NC002 trial, a combination drug trial that establishes a new pathway to TB and multi-drug resistant TB treatment. The meeting also involved high-level officials from U.S. agencies that support TB research including Anthony Fauci (Director, NIAID/NIH), Janet Woodcock (Director, CDER/FDA), and Robert Clay (Deputy Assistant Administrator, Global Health Bureau/USAID).
TB R&D Weekly Update: Results from Preventative Therapy Trial in SA Miners
At the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle, results on the Thibela TB preventative therapy trial in South Africa gold miners was presented with mixed outcomes. Additional links to TB R&D news are included.
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Toppix TB News- Calif. Man Is Criminally Charged to Force Compliance with Tuberculosis Treatment Plan 18 May 2012
- Indian Hospital patients share stories to help heal 17 May 2012
- West Springfield women honored for working with immigrants to prevent tuberculosis 15 May 2012
- MSF says additional resources needed to improve ART access in Burma 11 May 2012
- World disease fund gets added $1.6 bln shot in arm 9 May 2012
