News about 'TB Treatment'

10 Jan 2011
Ahmad Z, Peloquin CA, Singh RP, Derendorf H, Tyagi S, Ginsberg A, Grosset JH, Nuermberger EL. PA-824 exhibits time-dependent activity in a murine model of tuberculosis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 Jan;55(1):239-45. Epub 2010 Oct 11.PMID: 20937781 [PubMed – in process] Researchers testing the...
5 Jan 2011
Dr. Anneke Hesseling is the Director of the Paediatric TB Research Program at the Desmond Tutu TB Centre at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa. She has South African and US training in Medicine and Epidemiology and is the PI and co-PI on several large research projects relates to...
1 Dec 2010
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...
25 Nov 2010
The ACSM Subgroup of the Stop TB Partnership released a new guide to country-level best practices for advocacy, communications and social mobilization. > click here to download the report (.pdf – 3,800kb) From the report: ACSM Advocacy Report This document contains good practice examples of...
14 Nov 2010
Report: Falling Short Berlin, 13 November 2010 – The past decade has seen significant progress in scaling up effective treatment and case management programs for tuberculosis (TB) control, and the global incidence rate is now declining. Yet a new report released today by a consortium of leading...
7 Nov 2010
NC001 Today, the TB Alliance announced the first clinical trial to test multiple new TB drugs in combination; the trial is known as New Combination 1 (NC001).The experimental regimen undergoing testing in this trial consists of experimental TB drugs PA-824, Moxifloxacin, and Pyrazinamide, an...
1 Nov 2010
This report was filed by Shaoli Chadhuri, a junior at Duke University. Duke Global Health Institute “When I told my friends about my summer plans, many were surprised to hear that tuberculosis still existed in the US, not to mention, right here in North Carolina,” writes Duke University senior...
13 Oct 2010
This post was contributed by Vivek Dharmaraj of Advocacy to Control TB Internationally (ACTION Project) based in Pune, India. The names have been changed for privacy. ACTION Mohini Bai came to our NGO about 8 years back. She had lost her husband to AIDS and both she and her younger son had also...
12 Oct 2010
Stop TB Partnership Global Plan 2011-2015 Today, at press events in Johannesburg, Berlin and Geneva, the Stop TB Partnership launched The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015: Transforming the Fight-Towards Elimination of Tuberculosis . This new action plan, for the first time, identifies all the...
11 Oct 2010
This podcast was produced by MSF and originates on their website here . Mathare Slum Kids In Mathare, a poor area on the outskirts of Nairobi, MSF treats children with TB, but just diagnosing them is extremely challenging. Results of the lack of research into TB means the main diagnostic tool for...
8 Sep 2010
In June of this year, the WGND interviewed a patient in New Jersey who was being treated by the DOTS program of the Global Tuberculosis Institute at UMDNJ. While his point-of-view is by no means universal, it provides an oft-overlooked window into tuberculosis in the United States. USA TB Patient...
4 Aug 2010
TB Misdiagnosis: Swedish Student Compelled to Take TB Drugs for a Year This is the first in our series “TB Treatment Stories,” where we meet people who have had first-hand experience taking standard tuberculosis drugs, which were developed and approved more than 40 years ago . As the Working Group...
26 Jul 2010
(photo: http://www.musc.edu/chp/papem ) The route of drug delivery for TB drugs is an interesting one with the usual (and valuable) room for debate about different methods. While the standard mode of delivery for most drugs is oral, there is ongoing discussion as to whether aerosol delivery of TB...
22 Jul 2010
Citizen News Service Vienna 2010: PREVENT TB: IPT works, IPT is safe Bobby Ramakant – Citizen News Service (CNS) ******************************************** In Lesotho, Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT) to prevent latent TB infection from becoming active TB disease, is not available for ordinary...
14 Jul 2010
Connecting the DOTS: Unprecedented Approach to Ensure Compliance This is the fourth in our series “The Sanatorium Files.” Throughout this series we’ve taken an in-depth look at how tuberculosis has been diagnosed and treated with folk cures and sanatorium stays throughout history, and the...

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