Antiretroviral therapy (ART) cut the risk of newly diagnosed tuberculosis by 70% in a longitudinal study of 5040 HIV-positive children in Tanzania. Older age and more advanced HIV disease raised the risk of TB.

Despite increased economic growth over the past decade, Africa will not reach some of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets set forth in 2000 by the United Nations, including halving poverty by 2015, according to a UN report released yesterday.

Geneva, 28 May 2013. UNITAID’s approach to transform health product markets has delivered price reductions of up to 80% for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria medicines and diagnostics for the world’s poor, according to Results Beyond Investment, its 2012 Annual Report just released.

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Two Indians die of TB every three minutes. Why are 330,000 Indians dying from a disease that is completely curable?

An unexpected shortage of the tuberculosis drug isoniazid (Nydrazid) has hampered TB control and treatment across the U.S., the CDC reported.

Review first year’s progress toward implementing the African Union Roadmap.

New report shows that strong partnership between African and G8 governments has delivered impressive results but gaps remain in efforts to improve health across the continent.

Over the past week or so, least-developed country (LDC) members of the World Trade Organization have held their own in a closed room with the world’s biggest economies as they worked out details of a request by the LDCs to extend the deadline by which they must enforce WTO intellectual property rules.