Derived from the works of Paul-Henri Lambert, Tony Hawkridge, Willem A. Hanekom Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2009, vol 3. (4) pp. 811-26 TB patients awaiting treatment in Dhaka, Bangladesh photo: Jad Davenport Only one vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) now exists, bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) ,...
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19 Apr 2010
World Health Organization The World Health Organization’s Stop TB Department has published the fourth edition of Treatment of Tuberculosis: Guidelines. The guidelines contain a number of new recommendations, including a call to discontinue regimens based on just two months of rifampicin (2HRZE/6HE...
12 Apr 2010
IJTLD The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) is the official publication of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union). The IJTLD is the reference for clinical research and epidemiological studies on tuberculosis. It is also the only peer-...
30 Mar 2010
This article originally appeared in The Guardian The fund that fights killer diseases such as TB and Aids needs to build on its success, but it is facing a fiscal crisis by Jeffrey Sachs More than 100m long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets have been distributed in the fight against malaria...
18 Mar 2010
World Health Organization 18 MARCH 2010 | GENEVA | WASHINGTON DC — In some areas of the world, one in four people with tuberculosis (TB) becomes ill with a form of the disease that can no longer be treated with standard drugs regimens, a World Health Organization (WHO) report says. For example, 28...
9 Mar 2010
From the TB Alert press release: New TB Campaign is Offering Free TB Awareness Resources www.thetruthabouttb.org African HIV Policy Network (AHPN) , together with TB Alert , the UK’s national tuberculosis charity, is encouraging black African organisations to get involved in World TB Day, and is...
24 Feb 2010
Aren't These Lives Worth Saving, Too? This is a guest blog jointly submitted by Jerald C. Sadoff, MD, the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation and Mel Spigelman, MD, the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Global Alliance for TB Drug...