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For World TB Day 2024, the WGND is spotlighting a monumental achievement in TB drug research and development: the Global TB Drug Pipeline has never been bigger than it is today. The number of drug candidates being clinically evaluated for use in the treatment of adult pulmonary TB has surpassed that of all previous years. The WGND is tracking 19 drug candidates that have initiated or completed a Phase 1 clinical trial for use in treating Tuberculosis. Most have been or are currently being evaluated in a Phase 2 clinical trial and one has made it to Phase 3. These 19 do...
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1 Nov 2010
This report was filed by Shaoli Chadhuri, a junior at Duke University. Duke Global Health Institute “When I told my friends about my summer plans, many were surprised to hear that tuberculosis still existed in the US, not to mention, right here in North Carolina,” writes Duke University senior...
25 Oct 2010
Lisan Parker was on hand at the Town Hall Meeting to Examine the Restructuring of the NIH/NIAID Clinical Trials Networks for HIV/AIDS & Other Infectious Diseases and filed this report: NIAID Town Hall Meeting The morning talks began with Dr. Anthony Fauci explaining the current structure of the...
18 Oct 2010
Chest X-Rays Lisan Parker, who is transitioning into her new role as Research Liason to the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), filed this report on her recent trip to South Africa: As part of my trip to South Africa as Research Liaison to K-RITH, I and colleagues of...
13 Oct 2010
This post was contributed by Vivek Dharmaraj of Advocacy to Control TB Internationally (ACTION Project) based in Pune, India. The names have been changed for privacy. ACTION Mohini Bai came to our NGO about 8 years back. She had lost her husband to AIDS and both she and her younger son had also...
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...
11 Oct 2010
This podcast was produced by MSF and originates on their website here . Mathare Slum Kids In Mathare, a poor area on the outskirts of Nairobi, MSF treats children with TB, but just diagnosing them is extremely challenging. Results of the lack of research into TB means the main diagnostic tool for...
10 Oct 2010
This post originally appeared on Science Speaks . US Food and Drug Administration The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced $2.9 million to support six research projects related to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis on Monday. This investment is a component of the...
4 Oct 2010
Working Group on New TB Drugs Annual Meeting The 2010 Annual Meeting will be held on November 12, 2010 Please check this page for continuously updated information. The WGND will host our annual meeting prior to the start of the 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health (The Union) in Berlin. WHEN...
30 Sep 2010
The following post, which originally appeared on Science Speaks , is by Annmarie Leadman, Director of Communications at the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation and Babs Verblackt, Associate Communications at TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative – TBVI. Christine Sizemore of the U.S. National Institutes...
27 Sep 2010
Dear readers, please accept our apologies for missing the past couple of Tuesday R&D posts on the latest developments and meetings taking place in the TB R&D arena. There have been several important changes afoot and we are in the process of hammering out the final details so things will be...
22 Sep 2010
Rebecca, a DOTS Worker with the Global Tuberculosis Institute at UMDNJ, talks about the types of patients she sees and about the possibility of contracting TB herself. Click here to view part one of this interview series.
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...
15 Sep 2010
Rebecca, a DOTS Worker with the Global Tuberculosis Institute at UMDNJ, talks about her experience working with patients at a local shelter.
14 Sep 2010
This story originally appeared on BBC News. Click here to view . By Neil Bowdler Science reporter, BBC News A coloured micrograph of a cross-section of the tuberculosis bacteria Scientists in the UK say they have devised a new ultra-sensitive test which can diagnose the presence of the tuberculosis...
8 Sep 2010
In June of this year, the WGND interviewed a patient in New Jersey who was being treated by the DOTS program of the Global Tuberculosis Institute at UMDNJ. While his point-of-view is by no means universal, it provides an oft-overlooked window into tuberculosis in the United States. USA TB Patient...
