The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved Uganda’s national tuberculosis reference laboratory to a supranational tuberculosis reference lab.

Tuberculosis accounts for the second most important infectious disease burden in Europe.

The report reviews the landscape of TB diagnostics - considering current and expected future technologies, as well as critical market issues, highlighting potential market-based approaches to address shortcomings and improve market function.

India’s public health system has run out of life-saving tuberculosis medicines for children and critical testing kits for Aids patients, causing an outcry among patient groups who warn that the shortages could cost lives and worsen problems of drug resistance.

TB Alliance and its partners manage the largest pipeline of potential new TB drugs and drug regimens in history. A newly launched web-based tool allows users to follow the progress of TB Alliance research and development programs, offering key information on each project, clinical trial, and experimental regimen undergoing development.

Cambodians taking standard-dose (600-mg) efavirenz with rifampin for tuberculosis and weighing 50 kg or more attained lower efavirenz concentrations than those weighing less. But weighing 50 kg or more did not predict efavirenz concentrations below 1000 ng/mL or virologic failure.

Russia is confronting one of its most serious public health threats since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The threat is tuberculosis, but with a dangerous twist: Strains of the bacteria are widely circulating that are resistant to ordinary anti-TB drugs, and far harder to cure.

Igor Davydenko is rail-thin with dark circles under his eyes. He has a haunted look, reinforced by black prison overalls with reflective tape on the shoulders and cuffs.

Theme: “Ownership, Accountability and Sustainability of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Response in Africa: Past, Present and the Future”

The cuts come at a time when many in the tuberculosis community feel that new treatments are within reach.