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Working Group on New TB Drugs

Stop TB Partnership

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: [...]

Kick TB Campaign: Scoring Big in South Africa and Beyond

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The Kick TB Campaign is a unique project that uses the World’s most popular sport to educate and engage young people in the effort to stop the spread of tuberculosis (TB).

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Interview with TB Alert’s Mike Mandelbaum

Mike Mandelbaum, Chief Executive, TB Alert

Mike Mandelbaum is Chief Executive of TB Alert, which is the UK’s National and International Tuberculosis charity – the only British charity working solely on fighting TB in the UK and overseas.

Video: Jenniffer Dietrich, Challenge Facility for Civil Society

Jenniffer Dietrich, Stop TB Partnership

Jenniffer Dietrich is Technical Officer at the Challenge Facility for Civil Society of the Stop TB Partnership.

Video: Global Fund in the Dominican Republic

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This video documents what the Global Fund has done and can do more of to save lives and prevent infections by engaging affected communities.

Video: Global Fund Impact in Indonesia

This video presents interviews with a diverse range of stakeholders on the positive impact that Global Fund financing has had for Indonesia’s national programme. This post also includes another perspective from Kenya.

Call to Action on Childhood TB

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The Stop TB Partnership has issued a Call to Action on Childhood TB. The call was an outcome of an international meeting organized jointly by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the Stop TB Partnership’s Childhood TB Subgroup in March. There was strong consensus among participants on the urgent need to make the voice of children heard through concerted advocacy efforts. Links are provided to information on the Call to Action and to a page where you can sign the Call to Action on Childhood TB. There are also links to previous coverage by the WGND on topics related to Childhood TB.

Interview with Dr. Mark Cotton – Part Two

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Dr. Mark Cotton is Director of Children’s Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit (KID-CRU) at University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town, South Africa. Pediatric TB has emerged as a broad priority only in more recent years, though the University of Stellenbosch / Tygerberg Hospital team has been focusing on it for more than 20 years. This is part two of our interview with him.

Private TB Drug Market is Larger than Expected

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The first detailed study of the private tuberculosis (TB) drug market, published on May 4th, in the PLoS ONE journal, finds that the market is surprisingly large, and has irregular practices that could be driving treatment failures and contributing to the emergence of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).

Interview with Dr. Mark Cotton – Part One

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Dr. Mark Cotton is Director of Children’s Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit (KID-CRU) at University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town, South Africa. Pediatric TB has emerged as a broad priority only in more recent years, though the University of Stellenbosch / Tygerberg Hospital team has been focusing on it for more than 20 years.