Researchers at city-based Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) have found that compounds producing sulphur dioxide (SO2) inhibit the growth of the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB).

Call for Proposals open until 30 September 2012.

Weekly rewards of as little as $5 could keep people on track with their medications, says a new study.

Lessons learned during the global scale-up of HIV treatment can be used to address epidemics of tuberculosis (TB) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which have become leading causes of death for HIV-positive people in low- and middle-income countries. Unless additional measures are taken, experts explained on Friday, July 27, at the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS) in Washington, DC, there may be some erosion in antiretroviral therapy’s ability to prolong the lifespan of an aging global population of HIV-positive people.

BCG vaccination, routinely given at birth to protect from tuberculosis (TB), causes an immune-activation of CD4 T cells, the HIV target cells, according to a South African study presented at the Nineteenth International AIDS Conference in Washington DC.

The Romanian Stop TB Campaign has launched a TB awareness campaign in Romania calling on Romanian decision makers to step up and to save lives. The main goals of the campaign are to raise awareness and to urge the Government and decision makers to approve and fully fund Romania’s proposed national multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) plan for 2012-15.

Treatment with the anti-tuberculosis agent isoniazid appeared to protect HIV-infected individuals who live in areas where tuberculosis is highly prevalent -- at least for the short-term, two research teams found.

Those most at risk of developing tuberculosis are not being screened in some parts of the UK, experts say.

At the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) on Thursday, PEPFAR and Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), "announced Labs for Life, a new collaboration to help strengthen health care and laboratory systems in the developing world along with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)," a State Department fact sheet states (7/26). "The new five-year initiative builds on a previous five-year partnership between the U.S. government and [BD]" that "improved lab services in sub-Saharan African countries affected by HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, according to U.S. officials who had been briefed on an audit that will be released in a few weeks," CQ HealthBeat reports (Adams, 7/26).

A new website has been set up for people with TB. It is called Take That TB and is run by a former patient who spent four months in isolation. The front page of the website says, "This is a meeting area for patients of tb from patients of tb … for us from us.