News about 'stop tb'

28 Apr 2011
The Stop TB Partnership and the World Health Organization are announcing a call for applications for members to serve on the Global GLC . Deadline for submission of applications is 16 May 2011. A Global GLC Committee (the “gGLC”) is being established that will be 1) a sub-group of the MDR-TB...
18 Apr 2011
Lienhardt C, Cook SV, Burgos M, Yorke-Edwards V, Rigouts L, Anyo G, Kim SJ, Jindani A, Enarson DA, Nunn AJ; Study C Trial Group. Efficacy and safety of a 4-drug fixed-dose combination regimen compared with separate drugs for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: the Study C randomized controlled...
18 Jan 2011
Dr Lucica Ditiu, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership Dr Lucica Ditiu has been appointed Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership. A native of Romania, Dr Ditiu is a physician and researcher who has devoted her career to improving the lives of people living in communities heavily...
13 Dec 2010
ELIMINATING TB BY 2050: AN ACCELERATED GLOBAL RESEARCH STRATEGY PLEASE PARTICIPATE TO HELP TB RESEARCH MOVING FORWARD As a member of the large TB community, you might well be aware of the fact that research is essential for speeding up progress towards Tuberculosis (TB) elimination by 2050. We need...
7 Dec 2010
WHO Press Conference Yesterday, Mario Raviglione , Director of Stop TB, and Giorgio Roscigno, CEO of FIND, held a global press conference announcing the World Health Organization’s endorsement of the new rapid diagnostic test Xpert MTB/RIF. If implemented to scale in countries where tuberculosis (...
1 Dec 2010
Starting 1st December 2010, TB REACH is accepting proposals for the second wave of funding for projects that promote early and increased case detection of tuberculosis (TB) cases and ensure their timely treatment, while maintaining high cure rates within National TB Programmes. TB REACH encourages...
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...
29 Nov 2010
New TB/HIV Working Group Report: Priority Research Questions for TB&HIV in HIV-Prevalent and Resource-Limited Settings TB-HIV Report Nov 2010 In November 2008, the Global TB/HIV Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership , in collaboration with the WHO Stop TB and HIV/AIDS departments and the...
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...
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...
16 Sep 2010
Dear Partners and Friends, Stop TB Partnership The United Nations High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG Summit) will take place next week, from 20-22 September, in New York. This is an important moment to make the case for increased and continued commitments in the...
5 Jul 2010
This post originally appeared on the Stop TB Partnership website: http://www.stoptb.org/news/stories/2010/ns10_043.asp FIFA World Cup 2010 6 July 2010 – Johannesburg, South Africa – Tuberculosis is on the agenda at the Football for Hope Festival 2010 – an official event of the 2010 FIFA World Cup...
20 May 2010
Dr Klaus M Leisinger, President and Managing Director of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, and Dr Hiro Nakatani, WHO Assistant Director-General Dr Klaus M Leisinger, President and Managing Director of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development , and Dr Hiro Nakatani, WHO...
4 May 2010
Stop TB Partnership The Stop TB Partnership’s TB REACH initiative today announced the recipients of its first wave of grants to organizations that will engage in innovative approaches to increasing detection of tuberculosis (TB). Thirty applicants from 19 countries will together receive US$ 18.4...
25 Apr 2010
Stop TB Partnership The latest issue no.10 of Stop-TB News Monitor, for the period, 23-26 April 2010, is available online at: http://stoptb.citizen-news.org/2010/04/cns-stop-tb-news-monitor-23-26-april.html CNS Stop-TB News Monitor provides a snapshot of five major news pieces on tuberculosis (TB)...

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