“We can't fight AIDS unless we do much more to fight TB as well.”

Re: Urgent appeal to initiate delamanid compassionate use program

The guideline provides guidance on the principles and evidence-informed recommendations on the nutritional care and support for patients with tuberculosis.

The report details the role that gold mining has in driving the TB epidemic in southern Africa, and calls for a step up in political and corporate will for developing a coordinated international response to the disease.

Between September and October 2013, among 91% of the 2,342 public health facilities contacted, a shocking one in five health facilities reported experiencing a stock out or shortage of ARVs and/or TB medicines within the previous three months. 

Process illustrates collision between public health, politics.

One of the more promising TB drugs to emerge recently is extremely expensive. The drug is called linezolid and it is patented by Pfizer. One pill costs R676 per day.

Reach the three million
A TB test, treatment and cure for all

Second in a series of symposia calling for Zero TB Deaths, New Infections, and Suffering.

Approval of and access to delamanid are crucial while further research is pending.