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The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has issued a $30.8 million grant to the Preclinical Design and Clinical Translation of TB Regimens (PreDiCTR) consortium, a new consortium co-led by investigators from Weill Cornell Medicine; the University of California, San Francisco; Johns Hopkins Medicine; and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The grant, awarded in March 2024, aids the PreDicTR consortium with aims to accelerate the...
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27 Jun 2024
On May 17, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its updated Bacterial Priority Pathogens List (BPPL) 2024 and for the first time in its history it included a drug resistant strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Along with three other new families of antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens...
19 Mar 2024
For World TB Day 2024, the WGND is spotlighting a monumental achievement in TB drug research and development: the Global TB Drug Pipeline has never been bigger than it is today. The number of drug candidates being clinically evaluated for use in the treatment of adult pulmonary TB has surpassed...
3 Aug 2023
The Working Group on New TB Drugs, in collaboration with the New Diagnostics Working Group, Working Group on New Vaccines, FIND, IAVI, and TB Alliance, is co-hosting a New Tools Summit at the Marriot Champs Elysée Hotel in Paris, France on Tuesday, 14 November 2023. The WGND Annual Meeting will be...
23 Aug 2022
The PAN-TB collaboration announced initial plans for a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating two novel drug regimens to treat Tuberculosis. Sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the PAN-TB, or “Project to Accelerate New Treatments for Tuberculosis”, collaboration brings together non-...
4 May 2022
Earlier this week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a rapid communication which detailed the upcoming changes to the treatment guidance for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). These guidelines are used to inform national TB programmes globally on how to treat patients with these...
5 Apr 2022
On April 01, 2022, the Stop TB Partnership launched the second online consultation for the new Global Plan to End TB 2023-2030. Over the years, the Global Plans have been important tools for advocacy and resource mobilization, and served as a reference document for donors and stakeholders. In May...
23 Mar 2022
On March 21st, 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its guidelines on treatment of non-severe TB disease in children and adolescents. The new guidelines recommend a shorter duration of treatment and reduces the standard of care which is currently 6 months of therapy down to 4 months...
30 Mar 2021
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) published a press release on World TB Day 2021 announcing their clinical trial, TB-Practecal , investigating novel treatment for MDR-TB has stopped enrolling earlier than originally planned due to promising results. The trial's independent data safety and monitoring...
3 Feb 2021
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) held a consultation to discuss the definition of extensively drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis. The meeting was held to discuss novel treatment regimens and diagnostics for drug-resistant TB and determine its impact on the definition of XDR-TB. The...
10 Dec 2020
The Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New TB Vaccines (WGNV), Working Group on New TB Drugs (WGND), and New Diagnostics Working Group (NDWG) are developing an online course specifically designed for advocates and affected communities to provide a base of knowledge in TB research and to generate...
22 Oct 2020
On Thursday, October 21st, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) TB Trials Consortium (TBTC) announced results from their Phase 3, open-label trial: Study 31/A5349. The clinical trial identified a 4-month drug regimen composed of high-dose rifapentine, moxyifloxacin,...
11 Aug 2020
The European Commission (EC) has provided conditional marketing authorization for pretomanid, a novel compound developed by TB Alliance, when used in combination with bedaquiline and linezolid as part of a six month, all-oral regimen for the treatment of adults with XDR-TB or treatment-intolerant...
29 Jul 2020
The WGND is announcing a call for applications to become a part of the WGND Core Group (CG). The CG provides leadership and sets the strategic direction for the work of the WGND. Addmitted applicants will begin their term in September 2020. Current CG membership information is available on the WGND...
9 Jul 2020
Earlier this week, Johnson & Johnson announced a reduction in the price for bedaquiline in low- and middle-income countries, as part of a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership's Global Drug Facility (GDF). The immediate change in price will make bedaquiline available through the GDF at the...
18 Jun 2020
On May 21st, Antimicrbial Agents and Chemotherapy published an article on Otsuka's novel anti-tuberculosis compound, OPC-167832. This molecule, a DprE1 inhibitor, demonstrated potent bactericidal activity and exhibited significant combination effects in 2-drug combinations with delamanid,...