A slideshow from the Mail & Guardian asks if we are paying enough attention to TB:

Janssen must run a Phase III trial of bedaquiline urgently; More investment in TB drugs and diagnostics urgently needed.

The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) is the official publication of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union).

After wrong dosage was discovered in Sandoz's tuberculosis drug 4D, packs of its stronger variant have three pills instead of the stated four.

The days Rafael Hasta coughs up blood, his son Samuel gives him mashed papaya with boiled rice and red tea. Hasta refuses to eat anything else.

“A child with TB [is] as likely as an adult with TB to have MDR-TB [multi-drug resistant TB],” notes the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2013. that was released last month. “It is therefore essential that the identification of MDR-TB in children be strengthened.”

Prof. H. Simon Schaaf, a clinical researcher from the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University, South Africa has worked extensively on childhood TB and multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) in children. Last year he was awarded an A-rating from the National Research Foundation, South Africa. A-rating is the highest award given to scientists by the Foundation. This award was in recognition of his excellence in research in paediatric TB and MDR-TB in children.

Adequate funding is crucial in the fight against tuberculosis, but progress worldwide is threatened by underinvestment in tuberculosis research and development.

Interview with Dr Mario Raviglione, Director, World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Programme since 2003. Dr Raviglione has worked on TB control issues for two decades. In conversation with Maitri Porecha at the 44th Union World Conference of Lung Health in Paris, France, Dr Raviglione talks about challenges India faces in tackling the dreaded Tuberculosis scourge.

On 13 November, the European Respiratory Society (ERS) organised a lunch debate “Tuberculosis in Europe: Eliminating the modern threat” hosted by Members of European Parliament (MEPs) Maria da Graça Carvalho and Carl Schlyter in the European Parliament. The meeting was a good opportunity to review the situation of the TB epidemic in the region and take stock of the work of the European Institutions in the fight against the disease.