Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of India’s biggest health problems. Every year, India reports over 2 million TB cases. With the emergence of severe forms of drug‑resistant TB and concerns about TB drug shortages, there is much work to be done to control the epidemic.

Dr Emily Wise is volunteering in Uzbekistan, treating TB patients with a drug that can cause depression and suicidal thoughts. She writes about the conflict of using a cure that also kills.

Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) are partnering with the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) to study tuberculosis (TB). This research is supported by a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the Indo-U.S. Vaccine Action Program (VAP).

NEW DELHI: Mumbai's Sewri TB Hospital, Asia's largest of its kind, is facing a stock-out in drug-resistant (DR) tuberculosis drugs due to a delay in placing new orders, a situation that doctors say puts patients at high risk and might even prompt international airlines to issue advisories to foreign travellers against visiting the country's commercial capital.

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As deaths from infectious diseases rise in former Soviet countries, the EU needs to respond or face health challenges in the future, says Mario Raviglione.

Beijing, China/Rockville, MD, USA–August 2, 2013 – With the global tuberculosis epidemic becoming more deadly, costly, and difficult to treat, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and Aeras today signed a memorandum of understanding to advance research and development of new tuberculosis vaccines. An improved TB vaccine offers the best hope for eliminating this airborne infectious disease that kills 1.4 million people worldwide each year.

The International Management Development Programme (IMDP) of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) ) has joined hands with the World Health Organization (WHO) TBTEAM network to support health systems strengthening by delivering accredited health management training courses. TBTEAM, the Tuberculosis Technical Assistance Mechanism, whose secretariat is hosted in the WHO Global TB Programme, is a global coalition of partners, countries and funding agencies, which aims to build up the national capacity of countries and focuses on assisting national TB programmes and other stakeholders in improving implementation of grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund).

31 July 2013 - Geneva - Nominations for the 2013 Stop TB Partnership Kochon Prize are being accepted until 15 September 2013. Funded by the Kochon Foundation, a non-profit foundation registered in the Republic of Korea, the US$ 65 000 prize is awarded once a year to persons, institutions, or organizations that have made a highly significant contribution to combating tuberculosis (TB).

WHO/Europe and the WHO Country Office, Tajikistan made a comprehensive review of tuberculosis prevention and control in Tajikistan, to make recommendations for improvement in accordance with up-to-date WHO policies.