The issue of access to medicines is on the agenda at this week’s World Health Assembly (WHA) and public health advocates are seeking greater clarity and detail about the latest member state effort to address failings in the global system of research and development for medical products.

A clinical trial to assess a 9-month standardised treatment regimen for MDR-TB has begun in South Africa, Ethiopia and Vietnam.

The Central TB Division (CTD) of India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has announced policy changes based on operational research (OR) conducted by participants in The Union–Médecins sans Frontières OR courses in 2011–2012.

Watch the four-part series of short films on the deadly global TB epidemic and the race to develop new tools to prevent it:

On 17th May 2013, seven civil society organisations in Moldova have recently come together to found the ‘National Platform of CSOs active in the field of TB control’. The group was formed in order to ensure that individual organisations working at a community level could harness their collective energy and have a significant positive impact at a national level.

The number of tuberculosis cases reported in Switzerland per year is below the European average.

21 May 2013 - Geneva - Global leaders gathered this morning for a forum on health in the post-2015 development agenda. The event, now available to watch as a webcast, provided an opportunity for stakeholders to reflect on the outcomes of the Global Thematic Consultation on Health and provide further recommendations on future health goals and targets.

Researchers have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB bacteria in laboratory culture. The finding suggests that vitamin C added to existing TB drugs could shorten TB therapy, and it highlights a new area for drug design.

UNAIDS reports more than 7 million people now on HIV treatment across Africa––with nearly 1 million added in the last year—while new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS continue to fall

Find below a link to the recent Bloomberg TV broadcast on sequestration and the potential effects on TB programs.