JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The long-running silicosis litigation brought by 23 formers mineworkers against Anglo American South Africa (AASA) was settled on Wednesday.

PUNE: A seven-month-old girl from Ahmednagar has become the sixth infant aged below one year to be diagnosed with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) at the Sassoon hospital here this year. The youngest baby to contract the infection was only two months old.

You can download from here a poster with data from a small qualitative study that shows the difficulties administering medicines to children.

NEW YORK – The Global Fund’s Fourth Replenishment Conference will be hosted by the United States in Washington D.C. in early December 2013, Secretary of State John F. Kerry announced today.

The publication is intended for all health care workers involved in preventing, diagnosing, treating and caring for people living with TB and HIV in the specific settings of the WHO European Region.

Immunitor company announces publication of a successful clinical trial in 43 patients with tuberculosis who were given daily pill of therapeutic vaccine containing heat-killed Mycobacterium vaccae. The study, which is the first installment of two-part study, was published in September issue of Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics journal.

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As associate director of the McGill International TB Centre in Montreal, Dr. Madhukar Pai’s research is mainly focused on improving the diagnosis of tuberculosis, especially in high-burden countries like India and South Africa. He’ll speak at the William Davidson Institute’s Healthcare Initiative Seminar Series on Wednesday (Sept. 25) at the University of Michigan. He recently answered some questions, via email, from NextBillion Health Care about a few of the overarching market issues that impact efforts to diagnose and treat TB worldwide.

MUMBAI: A recent study by Andheri's Kokilaben Hospital has found that an overwhelming percentage of children referred to the hospital for tuberculosis had contracted its dreaded strain—multidrug resistant TB (MDRTB)—directly from the community and not from their immediate families. What makes the situation more alarming is the fact that there are negligible treatment options available for the paediatric population, say experts.

24 September 2013 – Geneva – TB REACH, an initiative of the Stop TB Partnership that aims to increase the number of people with tuberculosis (TB) who are found and provided with quality care, has launched a call for applications for its fourth wave of funding.