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World TB Day Congressional Briefing Tuberculosis – We Can Beat this Global Killer Wednesday, March 21, 2012 A briefing and update on tuberculosis (TB), a disease that is curable but still takes the lives of 4,000 people each day and is the number one killer of people living with HIV. Special areas...

Click here to access publication. The WGND Strategic Plan 2011-2015 is an update of the “New Drugs” section of the Global Plan to Stop TB: 2011-2015 . It describes the progress, gaps, and vision of the WGND and the TB drug development field as a whole. Since its inception, the WGND has served as a...

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...

Grzegorzewicz AE, Pham H, Gundi VA, Scherman MS, North EJ, Hess T, Jones V, Gruppo V, Born SE, Korduláková J, Chavadi SS, Morisseau C, Lenaerts AJ, Lee RE, McNeil MR, Jackson M. Inhibition of mycolic acid transport across the Mycobacterium tuberculosis plasma membrane. Nat Chem Biol. 2012 Feb 19...

The 21st Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board retreat and meeting officially started in Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday, Janu a ry 29th with the official opening ceremony held yesterday January 30th. Below are some exciting news from the meeting courtesy of Mark Harrington, Executive Director of the...

Click here for brochure. Vincent V, Rigouts L, Nduwamahoro E, Holmes B, Cunningham J, Guillerm M, Nathanson CM, Moussy F, De Jong B, Portaels F, Ramsay A. The TDR Tuberculosis Strain Bank: a resource for basic science, tool development and diagnostic services. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2012 Jan;16(1):...

Click here for full report Source: Stop TB Partnership News, November 3, 2011 A plan targeting researchers around the world and providing them with a framework to achieve the research objectives of the the Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015 and beyond, towards elimination of TB, was launched on...

2011 WGND Annual Meeting (Lille, France) During last week, the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Drugs had a successful annual meeting in Lille, France, in conjunction with the 42nd Union World Conference . There were several updates to the Global TB Drugs Pipeline showing progress toward...

Source: WHO New Release/31 October 11, 2011 WASHINGTON DC, 11 October 2011 – The World Health Organization (WHO) reports for the first time that the number of people falling ill with tuberculosis (TB) each year is declining. New data, published today in the WHO 2011 Global Tuberculosis Control...

We invite you to join us for the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Drugs’ Annual Meeting 2011 at the Grand Palais in Lille, France, on October 26. Also, we are sponsoring a dinner on October 25 at Le Barbue d’Anvers in Lille to allow our Sub-groups (Biology/Targets, Candidates, Critical...

The Stop TB Partnership has provided information and references to help partners to prepare a successful proposal to The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria . The call for Round 11 applications was released on August 15. Go to http://www.stoptb.org/global/tbfriends/ to get more...

These are the facts (source: Time to Act-Save a million lives by 2015 brochure ) : At least one out of three people in the world has latent TB infection, which increases the risk of becoming ill with TB. People living with HIV have an estimated 20 to 30 times greater risk of developing active TB...

Stop TB Partnership – Kochon Prize 2011 Call for Nominations The Stop TB Partnership Kochon Prize supports the global fight against tuberculosis (TB). The Prize, consisting of a medal and US$ 65 000, is awarded once a year to persons, institutions, or organizations that have made a highly...

Please take a minute and help us choose a new logo for the Stop TB Partnership’s Working Group on New Drugs (WGND). Since our inception in 2001, the WGND has evolved and expanded greatly. Through our membership and activities, we have been able to contribute to the critical collaborations and...

Notice from the Stop TB Partnership: We are writing to encourage you to sign the Call to Action on Childhood TB. The call was an outcome of an international meeting organized jointly by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the Stop TB Partnership’s Childhood TB Subgroup...