The World Health Organization (WHO) will host a webinar on 9 July 2020 to provide key updates on recently released new WHO guidance on rapid diagnostics and drug-resistant TB treatment.

*Screens 19,000 persons, identifies 1,286 presumptive individuals, enrols 52 confirmed TB cases for therapy

For those already battling infectious diseases in India, their suffering is compounded with the devastating impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Tanika Godbole reports from New Delhi.

An introductory meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Tuberculosis (STAG-TB) was held on 24-25 June 2020. The purpose of the meeting was to orient new STAG-TB members on their roles, the work of WHO and its Global TB Program and to overview the draft 2020 progress report of the UN Secretary General on TB.

RESIST-TB released its June 2020 newsletter with the latest research publications on drug-resistant TB.

NAIROBI, June 30 -- Kenya's Ministry of Health on Tuesday launched two policy documents to guide efforts aimed at ending tuberculosis (TB) in the country.

EL PASO, Texas - Biology students and faculty members from The University of Texas at El Paso have discovered a new target for tuberculosis drug development. Their study recently was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a publication of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB).

WHO releases updated guidelines for TB diagnosis, recommending rapid molecular tests as initial tests for TB detection.

The Stop TB Partnership dedicates the call for the 2020 Kochon Prize nominations to all the nurses on the frontline fight against TB.

Efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic have inadvertently affected tuberculosis (TB) programmes and other aspects of non-COVID healthcare, according to two recent commentaries, published in Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials and Tropical Medicine and Health. The linkages between COVID-19, TB and HIV are most pronounced in sub-Saharan Africa, where TB is the leading cause of death for people with HIV. Nonetheless, the impact has also been felt in the high income setting of the United Kingdom (UK).