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		<title>TB R&amp;D Weekly Update:  Totally Drug-Resistant TB</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Working Group</dc:creator>
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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>TB R&amp;D Weekly Update:  Study of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Shows TB to be Risk Factor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben_Alsdurf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week's TB R&#038;D update, we look at TB as a risk factor for mother-to-child transmission of HIV.  The research is published in the February issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases and is entitled "Maternal tuberculosis: a risk factor for mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus." Also, links to additional news in TB R&#038;D are included.]]></description>
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		<title>WHO Endorses New Rapid Diagnostic Test for TB</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Working Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Mario Raviglione , Director of Stop TB, and Giorgio Roscigno, CEO of FIND, held a global press conference announcing the World Health Organization's endorsement of the new rapid diagnostic test Xpert MTB/RIF.  If implemented to scale in countries where tuberculosis (TB) is endemic, it could revolutionize how TB is diagnosed and treated.  The test could have a significant impact on patients that are smear negative, HIV positive, or infected with drug-resistant TB.  ]]></description>
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		<title>MDR-TB patients face discrimination, long road to recovery in Peru</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Working Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video: Patients who develop multi-drug resistant tuberculosis face an arduous course of medical treatment. What's worse, many say, is being ostracized by friends and neighbors who fear the dreaded disease.]]></description>
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		<title>Photographer David Rochkind&#8217;s Journey of Discovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Working Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Voices from the Fight to Stop Tuberculosis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my third day in Mumbai I met Rehmat Shekh, a 28 year old woman who is HIV postive and battling TB for the first time in her life. When I walked into her home, a small 8×10 foot room that she shares with 3 family members, she was on the floor, her gaunt frame [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TB in Haiti After the Earthquake</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Working Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even before the recent earthquake shook large portions of Haiti to rubble, the country already had the highest tuberculosis rate in the Americas (roughly 30,000 new cases each year). With the health infrastructure now mostly in ruins, TB is likely to rise even further. The New York Times&#8217; Ian Urbina writes how the country&#8217;s sole [...]]]></description>
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