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The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has issued a $30.8 million grant to the Preclinical Design and Clinical Translation of TB Regimens (PreDiCTR) consortium, a new consortium co-led by investigators from Weill Cornell Medicine; the University of California, San Francisco; Johns Hopkins Medicine; and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The grant, awarded in March 2024, aids the PreDicTR consortium with aims to accelerate the...
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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...
8 Dec 2010
Raghuvanshi S, Sharma P, Singh S, Van Kaer L, Das G. Mycobacterium tuberculosis evades host immunity by recruiting mesenchymal stem cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Dec 6. [Epub ahead of print] On the early drug discovery front, this study may provide researchers additional areas to target for...
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...
22 Nov 2010
2010 Annual Meeting Following the guest speakers ( click here to view that recap ), several representatives from companies conducting clinical trials of TB drug candidates presented brief updates on progress made in the clinical development of their candidates. Click the presentation name to...
22 Nov 2010
2010 Annual Meeting Co-chairs of WGND, Mel Spigelmen and Bill Bishai opened the annual meeting by welcoming the attendees and briefly reviewing the agenda for the meeting. There were several guest speakers that presented on various topics including the website, community engagement, open source...
22 Nov 2010
Photos from our 2010 Annual Meeting on November 12 in Berlin, Germany. To view the meeting recaps, please visit: 2010 Annual Meeting Speakers Recap 2010 Annual Meeting Panel Presentations and Audience Q&A class="ngg-galleryoverview ngg-ajax-pagination-none" id="ngg-gallery-...
18 Nov 2010
a sputum cup This is part 3 of Lisan Parker’s photo collection from her recent trip to South Africa as part of her new role as Research Liason to the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV ( click here to view part 1 or click here to view part 2 ). These pictures are the last set...
14 Nov 2010
This report was written by Shobha Shukla of CNS News and appears on their website here . Gerry Elsdon “Bring Tuberculosis Out Of The Dark Into Light…” so said Gerry Elsdon, the very svelte TV broadcaster from South Africa, during the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Global Alliance for TB Drug...
14 Nov 2010
Report: Falling Short Berlin, 13 November 2010 – The past decade has seen significant progress in scaling up effective treatment and case management programs for tuberculosis (TB) control, and the global incidence rate is now declining. Yet a new report released today by a consortium of leading...
10 Nov 2010
WHO 2010 TB Control Report 11 November 2010 – The World Health Organizaton today issued its most comprehensive report ever on the progress being made in combating the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. The publication contains the very latest data, and for the first time also includes online profiles from...
9 Nov 2010
SABC Story on NC001 The clinical trial of the first novel regimen was featured today on SABC TV in South Africa. This is the first clinical trial to test multiple new TB drugs in combination; the trial is known as New Combination 1 (NC001). The experimental regimen undergoing testing in this trial...