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		<title>News from the 21st Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board Meeting, Bangkok</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Working Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[he 21st Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board retreat and meeting officially started in Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday, January 29th with the official opening ceremony held yesterday January 30th. Included are some exciting news from the meeting courtesy of Mark Harrington, Executive Director of the Treatment Action Group (TAG). ]]></description>
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		<title>Kick TB Campaign:  Scoring Big in South Africa and Beyond</title>
		<link>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2012/01/kick-tb-campaign-scoring-big-in-south-africa-and-beyond/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2012/01/kick-tb-campaign-scoring-big-in-south-africa-and-beyond/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Working Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faces of TB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TB Prevention and Control Strategies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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).  ]]></description>
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		<title>TB R&amp;D Weekly Update:  Totally Drug-Resistant TB</title>
		<link>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2012/01/tb-rd-weekly-update-totally-drug-resistant-tb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2012/01/tb-rd-weekly-update-totally-drug-resistant-tb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Working Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TB News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of weeks there have been much discussion and reporting on totally drug-resistant tuberculosis (TDR-TB) based on reports of new cases in India.  Here are links to coverage of TDR-TB in India,  excerpt from a response by Dr. Nardell who we interviewed last year, and link to the WHO Fact Sheet on TDR-TB.  Additional links to TB R&#038;D News are included.]]></description>
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		<title>4th Annual G-FINDER Survey Released</title>
		<link>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/12/4th-annual-g-finder-survey-released/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/12/4th-annual-g-finder-survey-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather_Ignatius</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Front Lines of TB R&D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TB News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the fourth annual G-FINDER survey tracking funding for research and development of neglected disease technologies was released.  This year’s report shows that funding for product development is on the decline and product development partnerships (PDPs) have been particularly hard hit, as eight of the top twelve public donors cut their funding in 2010. Now is a time of tremendous opportunity, with dozens of potential products within the reach of patients--donors must commit to taking them across the finish line.]]></description>
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		<title>International TB Research Roadmap Launched!</title>
		<link>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/11/international-tb-research-roadmap-launched/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/11/international-tb-research-roadmap-launched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Working Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A plan targeting researchers around the world and providing them with a framework to achieve the research objectives of the the Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015 and beyond, towards elimination of TB, was launched on Saturday at the Union World Conference on Lung Health.]]></description>
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		<title>Winstone&#8217;s Voice</title>
		<link>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/10/winstones-voice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/10/winstones-voice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John-Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Voices from the Fight to Stop Tuberculosis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/?p=3253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As has been widely reported, we lost Winstone Zulu, a tireless advocate for TB/HIV. Chief among his gifts was the ability to speak with passion about his subject, finding the precise balance between hard facts, personal history, and an inspiring call to action.]]></description>
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		<title>WHO Alarmed by Rising Rates of Drug-Resistant TB in Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/09/who-alarmed-by-rising-rates-of-drug-resistant-tb-in-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/09/who-alarmed-by-rising-rates-of-drug-resistant-tb-in-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Working Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, BBC News published an article on the WHO Plan entitled "Consolidated action plan to prevent and combat multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the WHO European Region 2011–2015."   The plan outlines the problem as well as a solution that could save 120,000 lives if successful.  ]]></description>
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		<title>News from the TB Treatment Field</title>
		<link>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/07/news-from-the-field-of-tb-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/07/news-from-the-field-of-tb-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Working Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent articles from around the globe related to governments addressing problems with providing treatment services to those with tuberculosis]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with TB Alert&#8217;s Mike Mandelbaum</title>
		<link>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/07/interview-with-tb-alerts-mike-mandelbaum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/07/interview-with-tb-alerts-mike-mandelbaum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Working Group</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/?p=2977</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Report:  An Evaluation of DR-TB Treatment Scale-up</title>
		<link>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/07/report-an-evaluation-of-dr-tb-treatment-scale-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtbdrugs.org/blog/2011/07/report-an-evaluation-of-dr-tb-treatment-scale-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Working Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MSF, PIH, and TAG release a report on MDR-TB scale up that shows poor progress that is leading to spread of MDR-TB and the continued loss of lives.]]></description>
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