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TB Europe Coalition: Urge your Member of EU Parliament to sign Written Declaration 0007/2013 on DR-TB

Together, let’s use this great opportunity to put TB higher on the political agenda of the EU!

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Physicians, researchers, advocates tell Obama and Congress: Gaps in President’s budget request will reverse gains

If enacted, the President’s budget would slash U.S. global TB funding to its lowest level since 2009.

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Definitions and reporting framework for TB - 2013 WHO revision

WHO has revised its standard case definitions for TB and drug-resistant TB.

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TB CAB open letters on EU-India FTA

Open letters to Indian Prime Minister and Health Minister to support India’s refusal of any Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)-Plus Provisions in Free-Trade Agreement negotiations with the European Union.

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European Parliament launches a Written Declaration on drug-resistant tuberculosis in the European region

Tuberculosis costs the European Union EUR 750 million per year and the European region is home to the highest rates of multidrug-resistant TB in the world, accounting for nearly 20% of the global burden.

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Tuberculosis prevention may speed drug resistance

In communities that implement isoniazid preventive therapy, the incidence of new isoniazid-resistant cases per year will double in the next 40 years.

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Tuberculosis & women

Issues like stigma, low socio-economic status and lack of education are significant barriers in early screening, diagnosis and treatment. And these delays perpetuate the transmission cycle.

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Direct observation may not improve TB treatment

Tuberculosis patients who swallow their anti-TB pills under the watchful gaze of health care workers fare just as well as patients trusted to self-medicate, according to a new meta-analysis.

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Combining Xpert and LAM urine testing improves TB diagnostic sensitivity

Despite recent advances in TB diagnostics, current technologies suffer serious disadvantages.

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TB activists launch new global coalition

A group of activists launched the Global Coalition of TB Activists (GCTA), a new network that aims to put communities affected by tuberculosis at the centre of decision making in the fight against TB.

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