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Click here to get more info. 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. Events On March 7 and 13, the CORE...

The audience takes in the promise of the NC--002 trial. 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...

Click here to go to the Global Health Trials website. We would like to share an exciting development in the field of global health, which has been launched in the last six months – an innovative professional membership scheme for tracking the continued professional development of clinical research...

The 21st Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board retreat and meeting officially started in Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday, Janu a ry 29th with the official opening ceremony held yesterday January 30th. Below are some exciting news from the meeting courtesy of Mark Harrington, Executive Director of the...

On November 17 and 18, a TB Clinical Trials Consultants Meeting was held at St. George’s, University of London. The meeting was organized by CDC , CPTR , INTERTB , NIH , and TB Alliance . The meeting was convened to catalog expert opinion on the conduct of Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trials in...

On September 16, the 4th International Workshop on Clinical Pharmacology of Tuberculosis Drugs was held adjacent to the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) which was held from September 17 to 19. Between the two meetings, there were many updates related to TB...

We invite you to join us for the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Drugs’ Annual Meeting 2011 at the Grand Palais in Lille, France, on October 26. Also, we are sponsoring a dinner on October 25 at Le Barbue d’Anvers in Lille to allow our Sub-groups (Biology/Targets, Candidates, Critical...

These are the facts (source: Time to Act-Save a million lives by 2015 brochure ) : At least one out of three people in the world has latent TB infection, which increases the risk of becoming ill with TB. People living with HIV have an estimated 20 to 30 times greater risk of developing active TB...

Stop TB Partnership – Kochon Prize 2011 Call for Nominations The Stop TB Partnership Kochon Prize supports the global fight against tuberculosis (TB). The Prize, consisting of a medal and US$ 65 000, is awarded once a year to persons, institutions, or organizations that have made a highly...

Today was the opening of the 2-day Stop TB Partnership’s Coordinating Board (CB) meeting in Washington, D.C. which included welcoming remarks by Dr. Rajiv Shah (Administrator, USAID), Ms. Lois Quam (Executive Director, GHI), and Dr. Howard Koh (Assistant Secretary, U.S. Depart. of HHS). Having the...

The New York Academy of Sciences will be hosting a symposium entitled “New Frontiers in Marine Drug Discovery” on May 20, 2011. This 1-day symposium will overview the current state of the art in Marine Biomedicine and its role in the context of the drug discovery process – from the perspectives of...

The following is an e-mail circulated on the Stop TB Advocacy Network from a TB patient named Pervaiz Tufail, location unknown. It is a powerful message from the patient’s perspective. Subject: TODAY IS WORD TB DAY BUT WHERE AM I? I heard Akram died of TB today, last week Rizwan died and I am...

Photo: David Rochkind On World TB Day March 24, there will be a Congressional Briefing on multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) where David Rochkind, the award winning photographer and Pulitzer Center grantee, will present his reporting and photography on his exploration into the MDR-TB crisis in...

The Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública / Pan American Journal of Public Health , published by the Pan American Health Organization , announces an open call for original papers, brief communications, and reviews for its next special issue, which will cover topics related to antimicrobial...

Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), addressed the importance of investing in innovation and harnessing the power of new global health technologies to achieve widespread impact on those suffering from disease in the most impoverished...