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4 Oct 2012
Click here to read the full document. Launch of the Good Participatory Practice Guidelines for TB Drug Trials The Stakeholder and Community Engagement Workgroup of the Critical Path to TB Drug Regimens initiative launches guidelines that will facilitate the involvement of communities and...
3 Sep 2012
Anna K. Coussensa, Robert J. Wilkinson, Yasmeen Hanifa, Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy, Paul T. Elkington, Kamrul Islam, Peter M. Timms, Timothy R. Venton, Graham H. Bothamley, Geoffrey E. Packe, Mathina Darmalingam, Robert N. Davidson, Heather J. Milburn, Lucy V. Baker, Richard D. Barker, Charles A. Mein...
26 Aug 2012
Click here to read full report. The 2012 Millennium Development Report was just released highlighting progress made to date. Great strides have been made in HIV and TB from the year 1990 (see below). The Global Plan to Stop TB issued by the Stop TB Partnership is set within the context of the...
31 Jul 2012
Press Release: The Africa Coalition on Tuberculosis (ACT!), whose inception was the result of a Declaration made in Washington, DC, USA in March 2012, kicked off activities at a week-long planning meeting in June in Tirano, Italy. Founding members of the coalition include tuberculosis (TB)...
23 Jul 2012
Yesterday, efficacy data from the first novel regimen trial (NC001) were published in the Lancet . The results found that the regimen containing PA-824, moxifloxacin, and pyrazinamide, could kill more than 99 percent of patients’ TB bacteria within two weeks and could be more effective than...
22 Jul 2012
TB REACH, an initiative of the Stop TB Partnership to promote early and increased TB case detection, today has launched its call for applications for Wave 3 funding. Partners of the Stop TB Partnership, national TB programmes, HIV programmes, local and international NGOs, civil society and...
4 Jul 2012
Structure of Bedaquiline This week it was announced the Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson, filed a New Drug Application (NDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their drug Bedaquiline (a.k.a. TMC-207). For additional information on...
1 Jul 2012
This post originally appeared on NPR – click here to listen to the interview and read the full story Marcus Samuelsson owns two restaurants in New York City and two restaurants in Sweden. He’s cooked for President Obama and prime ministers, served as a judge on Top Chef and Chopped , and recently...
13 Jun 2012
The Stop TB Partnership made two exciting announcements today: 1. US$ 40 million committed to roll-out of Xpert The executive board of UNITAID today approved funding of US$ 30 million to scale up access to Xpert MTB/RIF, and reduce the cost of its use. In addition, the Stop TB Partnership’s TB...
6 Jun 2012
Delamanid (OPC-67683) This week, efficacy data from the recently completed Phase 2 randomized placebo-controlled trial in MDR patients evaluating delamanid with background treatment compared to placebo with background treatment was published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine ...
24 May 2012
For this week’s update, we highlight three recent articles that look at repurposing and optimizing drugs already on the market or looking at novel targets and drug classes for TB. Dooley KE, Mitnick C, Degroote MA, Obuku E, Belitsky V, Hamilton CD, Makhene M, Shah S, Brust JC, Durakovic N,...
30 Apr 2012
The latest news from the Stop TB Partnership. You may also download a .pdf version by clicking here . WORLD TB DAY NEWS Childhood tuberculosis neglected, despite available remedies TB often goes undiagnosed in children because they lack access to care, or because health workers don’t recognize the...
10 Apr 2012
This week, we are highlighting two articles published online in the Journal of Infectious Diseases in March. The first article by Coxon, et al., looks at the benefits and limitations of the two main approaches to compound discovery for TB, target-based and phenotypic-based. The second article by...
26 Mar 2012
The 243rd American Chemistry Society National Meeting and Exposition is being held in San Diego, California, from March 26 to March 29. There are several presentations on tuberculosis. Here are the abstracts of a few of the talks. The first item received news coverage and discusses two approved...
22 Mar 2012
Click here to get more info. Saturday, March 24, is officially World TB Day but there has been a stream of activities, publications, news and messages to let the world not forget about this major infectious disease killer that claims millions of lives each year. Events On March 7 and 13, the CORE...

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