Items tagged with Global TB response

Aidspan publishes new issue of ‘Global Fund Observer’ (post)

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer

Aidspan publishes new issue of ‘Global Fund Observer’ (post)

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer

IJTLD July 2017 issue now online (post)

The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) is the official publication of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union).

June 2017 issue of Public Health Action now online (post)

Public Health Action is the free access, online journal of The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. The journal focuses on tuberculosis, lung health, non-communicable diseases and related public health issues.

Needed at the G20 Summit: A global assault on drug-resistant TB (post)

Ever since Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin, the mass production of antibiotics has been a vast boon to humanity, curing untold numbers of infections that were once a death sentence.

MSF urges G20 to take action on health issues (post)

Ahead of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, where global health is on the agenda for the first time, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on G20 leaders to follow through on the declaration made by their health ministers in late May.

Report says U.S. government must make strategic domestic, global investments to address TB (post)

Recovery time TBD: Tuberculosis and the fight for global health (post)

When considering disease endemics in the developing world, the focus falls most commonly on HIV and malaria. Attention is rarely turned to tuberculosis (TB), a far deadlier disease that annually kills more people than the aforementioned two combined, with 1.8 million deaths in 2015, alone. It is a disease which has existed in some form or another for millennia. From the instructional histories of Hippocrates to the grim tales of Dostoyevsky, tuberculosis (or “consumption” in pre-germ theory literary works) has ravened the poor and destitute. Despite best attempts by modern medicine, the disease is far from eradicated.

3P Project enables radical change in R&D for TB treatment (post)

A new project that stimulates the development of affordable and effective drug regimens to treat tuberculosis (TB) is catching notice in policy circles.

Aidspan publishes new issue of ‘Global Fund Observer’ (post)

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer