News

Interview with TB Alert’s Mike Mandelbaum

Mike Mandelbaum is Chief Executive of TB Alert, which is the UK’s National and International Tuberculosis charity – the only British charity working solely on fighting TB in the UK and overseas.

TB Alert is a young charity, registered in late 1998 and launched at the Houses of Parliament on World TB Day (24th March) 1999. It was set up by people who felt that with its long tradition of TB work, there should be a greater response in Britain to the resurgent threat of tuberculosis – already declared a global emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1993.

TB Alert is the first TB-specific charity in Britain since the 1960s when earlier organisations, assuming too soon that the disease had been vanquished, faded away or moved on to other interests. Its active Trustees include many of the leading experts on TB based in Britain.

TB Alert is an Organisational Member of the International Union Against TB and Lung Diseases and a StopTB Partner.

More News
23 Aug 2022
The PAN-TB collaboration announced initial plans for a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating two novel drug regimens to treat Tuberculosis. Sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the PAN-TB, or “Project to Accelerate New Treatments for Tuberculosis”, collaboration brings together non-...
4 May 2022
Earlier this week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a rapid communication which detailed the upcoming changes to the treatment guidance for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). These guidelines are used to inform national TB programmes globally on how to treat patients with these...
5 Apr 2022
On April 01, 2022, the Stop TB Partnership launched the second online consultation for the new Global Plan to End TB 2023-2030. Over the years, the Global Plans have been important tools for advocacy and resource mobilization, and served as a reference document for donors and stakeholders. In May...