Through the summer, talk circulated that Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby was preparing to move on – and today we’re hearing that his departure date is set for as early as Oct. 26.

A primary-care based screening programme could help tackle TB in the UK according to a comment from Public Health England (PHE) published in The Lancet today (18 October 2013).

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More than 90% of children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) can be treated successfully, according to a study from South Africa.

17 October 2013 - Geneva - The agenda for the Stop TB Partnership event, New opportunities for funding and engagement - Your role in the future of the Stop TB Partnership, is now available on the Stop TB Partnership website.

A recent European Union regulation on customs enforcement of intellectual property rights has raised concerns among civil society actors who find that the regulation might not be an improvement over its previous version under which seizure of legal generic medicines in transit occurred a few years ago, leading to a World Trade Organization dispute.

Eastern Europe is facing quadruple, intersecting epidemics of injecting drug use, HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and hepatitis C, and governments must act to tackle these problems in the only region of the world where the HIV epidemic is still expanding, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on HIV in central and eastern Europe, Professor Michel Kazatchkine, told the opening session of the 14th European AIDS Conference tonight in Brussels.

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