It has been a year of turmoil for the Global Fund. Round 11 has been officially cancelled, preceded by months of negative publicity about corruption and fraud. But the turmoil is set to continue as the Fund undergoes a process of organisational transformation. A Consolidated Transformation Plan (CTP) consisting of six "transformation areas," 31 projects and 162 deliverables is being implemented. A new Strategy for 2012-16 ("the Strategy") has also been produced, setting the direction for the Fund's future evolution. With so much happening, it can be hard to "see the forest for the trees."

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine on Tuesday announced he will "step down in mid-March after leading the organization for five years," according to a Global Fund press release (1/24).

There is a tuberculosis epidemic in Papua New Guinea that has been fuelled by its high number of HIV cases but has now spread predominantly to non-HIV patients.

THE Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) has opened up a Tuberculosis (TB) isolation clinic worth more than K70 million at Lusaka Central Prison.

Early diagnosis and rapid initiation of treatment remains a key strategy to control both HIV and TB. However, HIV and TB control programs have had completely contrasting successes, especially with the development and deployment of point-of-care diagnostics.

Research by a Tanzanian woman scientist is turning up roses in South Africa and could save millions of people the pain of tuberculosis and other ailments which she calls "diseases of poverty."

Cutting edge research is underway in Kisumu, Kenya, to find new ways to put an end to deaths from tuberculosis.

"There would be more than 4.4 million more people in South Africa if it were not for the AIDS pandemic, according to a survey released on Monday" by the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR), SAPA/News 24 reports (1/23).

The Ministryof Public Health and the Kenya Medical Research Institute plan to decentralise testing services for the multi drug resistance (MDR) tuberculosis to ease congestion at the central TB testing unit. The directorof the National Leprosy and TB Control Programme the in Kenya, Joseph Sitienei, said the planwill also provide high quality services to Kenyans and escalate the fight against the disease.

CAMDEN — A Rutgers–Camden professor is using his expertise in computer science to aid in the development of new methods to fight tuberculosis.