The Stop TB Partnership has prepared a roadmap of meetings, workshops and other events organized by partners during and before the World Conference on Lung Health in Paris.

RANGOON — Burma, with one of the highest tuberculosis prevalence rates in the world, is on track to reach global targets in reductions to its incidence, prevalence and mortality rates for the disease by 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday.

A dossier prepared by Citizen News Service (CNS, www.citizen-news.org) and Women4GF (www.women4gf.org) in October 2013 before the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health. It aims to pull out quotes from interviews done with women and transgender with TB, MDR-TB and/or TB-HIV co-infection to underline gender-based inequalities that adversely impact different components of TB care.

A compilation of CNS interviews with women and transgender with tuberculosis (TB), multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) or TB-HIV coinfection in India and Zimbabwe. Prepared by Women4GF (www.women4gf.org) and Citizen News Service (CNS, www.citizen-news.org) in October 2013.

Tuberculosis developed in an estimated 8.6 million people worldwide in 2012, according to a World Health Organization report. Of the 1.3 million people who died of TB, 320,000—or one quarter—had HIV infection.

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The guidelines describe FDA-approved and off-label uses of bedaquiline in populations with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis that were not included in clinical trials. 

Médecins Sans Frontières would like to treat 300 drug resistant TB patients in Khayelitsha with linezolid, but can only afford to buy the drug for little more than 20 patients.

On 17th October, the Working Group on Intellectual Property of the Brazilian Network for the Integration of Peoples (GTPI/REBRIP, acronym in Portuguese), coordinated by the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA, acronym in Portuguese), made a submission of recommendations to the South African Department of Trade and Industry on the Draft National Policy on IP.

A report designed to support the voices of those who often find themselves forgotten among the numbers.