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5-Jul-2011 - 8-Jul-2011 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada Context High quality diagnostic studies are critical to evaluate new tools, to develop evidence-based policies on TB diagnostics. There is evidence that TB diagnostic trials are poorly conducted and poorly reported. Lack of methodologic rigour in...

Dr Lucica Ditiu, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership Dr Lucica Ditiu has been appointed Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership. A native of Romania, Dr Ditiu is a physician and researcher who has devoted her career to improving the lives of people living in communities heavily...

WHO Press Conference 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 (...

New WHO Guidelines On World AIDS day, the WHO Department of HIV/AIDS and the Stop TB Department issued new guidelines showing how people with HIV can be protected from tuberculosis with regular and low-cost preventive medication. This holds great promise for people living with HIV because TB is...

2010 Annual Meeting Following the guest speakers ( click here to view that recap ), several representatives from companies conducting clinical trials of TB drug candidates presented brief updates on progress made in the clinical development of their candidates. Click the presentation name to...

2010 Annual Meeting Co-chairs of WGND, Mel Spigelmen and Bill Bishai opened the annual meeting by welcoming the attendees and briefly reviewing the agenda for the meeting. There were several guest speakers that presented on various topics including the website, community engagement, open source...

Photos from our 2010 Annual Meeting on November 12 in Berlin, Germany. To view the meeting recaps, please visit: 2010 Annual Meeting Speakers Recap 2010 Annual Meeting Panel Presentations and Audience Q&A class="ngg-galleryoverview ngg-ajax-pagination-none" id="ngg-gallery-...

Lisan Parker was on hand at the Town Hall Meeting to Examine the Restructuring of the NIH/NIAID Clinical Trials Networks for HIV/AIDS & Other Infectious Diseases and filed this report: NIAID Town Hall Meeting The morning talks began with Dr. Anthony Fauci explaining the current structure of the...

Working Group on New TB Drugs Annual Meeting The 2010 Annual Meeting will be held on November 12, 2010 Please check this page for continuously updated information. The WGND will host our annual meeting prior to the start of the 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health (The Union) in Berlin. WHEN...

The following post, which originally appeared on Science Speaks , is by Annmarie Leadman, Director of Communications at the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation and Babs Verblackt, Associate Communications at TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative – TBVI. Christine Sizemore of the U.S. National Institutes...

Dear Partners and Friends, Stop TB Partnership The United Nations High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG Summit) will take place next week, from 20-22 September, in New York. This is an important moment to make the case for increased and continued commitments in the...

The following is a guest posting from Joanna Breitstein of the TB Alliance, reporting from the Open Forum 4 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Open Forum 4 While there were few new TB treatment prospects a few years ago, today there are 10 drugs in the global development pipeline. Noting the sea of change,...

Working Group on New TB Drugs Annual Meeting SAVE THE DATE: November 12, 2010 WGND Annual Meeting in Berlin The WGND will host our annual meeting prior to the start of the IUATLD meeting in Berlin. WHEN: Friday, November 12, 2010, 9am-12pm WHERE: The Kempinski Hotel Bristol Berlin, http://www...

This article originally appeared on Citizen News Service. Click here to read the original post. by Shobha Shukla Open Forum 4 The Open Forum 4 on key issues in tuberculosis (TB) drug development is all set to begin in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (18-19 August 2010). This Open Forum 4, will raise and...

Fourth Annual New England TB Symposium On Friday, July 16 th , the fourth annual New England TB Symposium took place at the Broad Institute, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The symposium was in collaboration with the US-Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program: 45 th Tuberculosis and Leprosy...