News about 'Voices from the Fight to Stop Tuberculosis'

10 June 2015 – Geneva, Switzerland – The Stop TB Partnership is today launching the online consultation into the first public draft of the Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020. The consultation process is open to everyone to share information, ideas and experiences, and, will run from 10 June to 10...

The Kick TB Campaign is a unique project that uses football (soccer), the World’s most popular sport, to educate and engage young people in the effort to stop the spread of tuberculosis. First inaugurated in South Africa during the 2010 World Cup, Kick TB has expanded to Brazil, the host country of...

Update: Release of Part 1 of EXPOSED scheduled for the week of May 20. Contact jrosen@aeras.org if you would like to host a screening event or get more information. EXPOSED is a four-part series of short films that tell the story of the deadly global epidemic of tuberculosis. The series will...

Multidrug-Resistance Tuberculosis: No Promises from MSF Access Campaign on Vimeo . Patients with tuberculosis must undergo lengthy, arduous treatment regimens in the best of times. When stricken with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB, however, the road back to health is even more...

This week we highlight an interview with Dr. Andrew Vernon, the Chief, Clinical Research Branch, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He discusses the progress made in TB drug development and the growing number of TB trials and trials...

This week we highlight an interview with Dr. Douglas Lowrie, a Senior Research Fellow at Fudan University’s Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center in China. He discusses the extent of the problem of TB in China and innovative research on enhancing TB treatment using immunotherapeutic vaccines.

Inaugural entrants showcase successful new approaches Thank you to all who submitted entries to the first InnovateTB contest. We are delighted to be able to help promote them as an ongoing effort of the InnovateTB Library. At the request of our stakeholders, we divided the winners into three...

This week we highlight an interview with Jeannine Uwimana, a public health specialist from the University of the Western Cape and TB/HIV Care Association in South Africa. She discusses her work in developing models for community-based programs to enhance TB and HIV collaborative activities.

Dr. Gill Black Summary: Dr. Gill Black is the co-founder and Director of Health and Welfare at The Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation (SLF). In this inteview, we discuss with Dr. Black one of SLF’s groundbreaking projects that uses drama to engage local communities around issues related to TB and...

Announcing the InnovateTB contest! Innovations are revolutionizing TB. Tell us your story! On World TB Day, the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New TB Drugs (WGND) announces the InnovateTB Contest to encourage and highlight innovations to achieve zero deaths from TB in this generation. We are...

Dr. Tawanda Gumbo Summary: Dr. Tawanda Gumbo , an associate professor at the The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, recently published a paper in the Journal of Infectious Diseases entitled “Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis not due to noncompliance but to between-patient...

The Kick TB Campaign is a unique project that uses the World’s most popular sport to educate and engage young people in the effort to stop the spread of tuberculosis (TB). The campaign began in 2009 in South Africa and has been so successful that other countries in Africa and Asia are taking...

Dr. Yossef Av-Gay Summary: Dr. Yossef Av-Gay , a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of British Columbia, recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) entitled “ Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein tyrosine phosphatase (PtpA...

Gyanu Lamicchane Summary: Microbial geneticist Dr. Gyanu Lamichhane of the Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research is one of 49 recipients of the New Innovator Award, which is given to promising scientists in the early stages of their careers and is supported directly with $1.5 million in...

Winstone in Seattle, 2005 As has been widely reported, we lost Winstone Zulu, a tireless advocate for TB/HIV (see more info at the TB Alliance and ACTION ). I was lucky to have been able to work with Winstone over the years – his greeting was always a hearty: “So when are you coming to Zambia?” I...