Items tagged with Global TB response
AIDS leaders call on advocates to join together to fight AIDS and TB in Melbourne (post with simple image)
The 2014 International AIDS Conference in Melbourne concluded on 25th July with a renewed commitment by the AIDS community to unite efforts against AIDS and TB. Addressing the 14,000 delegates attending the conference during the opening ceremony, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé said “We cannot run away from the TB epidemic among people with HIV. All our efforts to keep people with HIV alive will be lost if they die from TB.”
MSF issue brief: Pushing the envelope (post with simple image)
Does the Global Fund’s New Funding Model foster country ambitions?
AIDS progress in South Africa is in peril (post with simple image)
VERENA, South Africa — A fading roadside ad for Selala Funeral Service here captures what was, until recently, the essence of South Africa’s AIDS epidemic: “Tombstones Are Available,” it reads. “Buy One, Get One Free.”
Global epidemic of diabetes threatens to jeopardise further progress in tuberculosis control (post with simple image)
A Series of three papers in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology examines the intersection between TB and diabetes from several angles, and outlines strategies that will be key to managing and ultimately reducing this dual disease burden.
Mobilizing against TB (post with simple image)
In a new collaborative project, researchers and clinicians hope to put the pieces together to solve the puzzle of global TB.
Obama Administration takes actions to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria (post with simple image)
President Obama signed an Executive Order directing key Federal departments and agencies to take action to combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
New vaccines targeting adults and teens are best chance to eliminate TB by 2050 (post with simple image)
Targets to eliminate tuberculosis by 2050 are more likely to be met if new vaccines are developed for adults and adolescents instead of for infants.
A deadly disease that demands huge investment (post with simple image)
Tuberculosis is by far the biggest single cause of death in South Africa, and it is exacerbated by the HIV epidemic.
Killer TB spreads as research plummets (post with simple image)
Initiatives to support antibiotic research — of which TB drug and diagnostic R&D are crucial parts — must be backed by funding commensurate to the growing size of the epidemic.
TAG: Tuberculosis research at risk as big pharma shutters programs (post with simple image)
TAG’s ninth annual Report on Tuberculosis Research Funding Trends shows that the foundation of the TB research enterprise is shakier than ever, setting back efforts to fight a disease that in 2012 killed 1.3 million people and caused 8.6 million to fall sick.
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