The uproar over the stock-out situation for anti-tuberculosis drugs has driven the government into action. It is learnt that following media reports, the Prime Minister's Office wrote a letter asking the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) for clarification on the availability of drugs.

The incidence of multidrug-resistant TB in South Africa is much higher than doctors thought, a new test has shown.

Like ailing statesman Nelson Mandela, Dudley Lee contracted tuberculosis in Cape Town’s notoriously overcrowded Pollsmoor prison. Though Lee was eventually acquitted, he spent four years awaiting trial on charges relating to money laundering, forgery and fraud in a cell he describes as a “pig sty, a mad house and a health time bomb”.

NAIROBI, Kenya, 1 July 2013—In a joint visit to Kenya, the leaders of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria signaled strong partnership to defeat infectious diseases including HIV and tuberculosis (TB).

Survey shows HIV pipeline healthy, HCV drug development surging, while TB research moves forward much too slowly; Faster research, approval, and access demanded.

Biggest year on year increase as numbers of people accessing antiretroviral therapy increase by 1.6 million from 2011 to 2012

Threshold for starting treatment raised to CD4 count of 500. The Organization continues to recommend that all people with HIV with active TB receive antiretroviral therapy irrespective of CD4 cell count.

Roadmap of TB/HIV sessions at the upcoming 7th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention.