Here is some worrying news.

Sequestration-related cuts are threatening to damage the CDC’s Tuberculosis Trials Consortium, the leading TB clinical research collaborative in the world.

MUMBAI—India faces a potential shortage of a critical medication for drug-resistant tuberculosis that could deepen an already acute drug- shortfall-problem in the country with the highest burden of the deadly contagious disease.

Tuberculosis patients and activists protested outside the federal health ministry in New Delhi Wednesday, angered at a shortage of life-saving medicines in government clinics.

The Journalist to Journalist Project of the National Press Foundation is working with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease to offer all-expenses-paid fellowships for health journalists to cover the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Paris, France. Fellowship winners will attend three days of expert training from Tuesday to Thursday, 29-31 October, then cover the conference through Sunday, 3 November 2013.

Civil society demands transparency and uninterrupted supply of TB medicines.

The UK has banned the issuance of travel visas to tuberculosis (TB) patients from Uganda because of the high incidence of the disease as identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

New Delhi, 26th June, 2013 -- The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that the treatment of lakhs of tuberculosis (TB) patients, especially children, across the country has been in jeopardy due to severe shortage of key TB drugs in the country over the past few weeks.

As President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief in-country teams build HIV-fighting strategies in the future, they will seek, report on, and provide written responses to input from groups representing those most affected by HIV, following a State Department cable sent to embassies around the world earlier this month and released Monday.

Read articles on topics from nutrition and gender-based violence to MDR-TB treatment needs and paediatric in-patient care in war-torn Somalia in the new issue of Public Health Action, The Union's open access journal.