Médecins Sans Frontières, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Global Health Program convene medical experts from around the world for New York conference

UNAIDS launched on 20 November the World AIDS Day report 2012 which outlines some significant progress made in the AIDS response in recent years.

In the latest turn of an unlikely controversy, the Government has postponed a mass culling of badgers to stem transmission of bovine tuberculosis to cattle. Fortunately, human health is for the most part safe - we rarely contract the bovine form of TB.

Kuala Lumpur. Lack of adherence to the rigorous and lengthy treatment regime to cure tuberculosis has led to the disease becoming stronger and more resistant to drugs, according to a health official.

People living with diabetes are two to three times more likely to get active tuberculosis then others, an expert said over the weekend.

Part two of a two-part series on the state of tuberculosis. Treating the disease is more than just killing the bacterium; it involves working in communities to curb the spread of the disease. Click here to read Part 1: Tuberculosis Under the Microscope

NEW genetic sequencing techniques can map the 'family tree' of a Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak allowing the spread of disease to be tackled quickly and effectively.

As the curtain draws upon the 43rd Union World Conference On Lung Health in Kuala Lumpur, all those involved in health care in some way or the other - TB affected communities, governments, donors, researchers, healthcare professionals, broader civil society, among others - need to deliberate upon this dictum.

At its 22nd meeting, the Coordinating Board decided to embrace calls for greater ambition in TB and voted to endorse the Zeroes campaign. Mark Harrington (Treatment Action Group), Lucica Ditiu (Stop TB Partnership), David Mametja (South African Department of Health), Salmaan Keshavjee (Partners in Health) and Mario Raviglione (WHO) made the "zero" sign.

WASHINGTON -- Patients being treated with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors who develop tuberculosis (TB) may safely reinstitute their biologic before completing the lengthy TB treatment regimen, a small retrospective study suggested.