Items tagged with Global TB response
Tuberculosis vaccines: Rising opportunities (post)
A perspective published in PLOS Medicine reflects on the progress of the TB vaccine development.
Controlling latent TB infection in high-burden countries: A neglected strategy to end TB (post)
A perspective published in PLOS Medicine provides the justification for scaling up TB preventive therapy in high-burden countries.
Global Fund launches new Data Explorer to present information on investments worldwide (post)
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Global Fund Data Explorer
Aidspan publishes new issue of ‘Global Fund Observer’ (post)
Aidspan: Global Fund Observer
Ensuring access to life-saving medicines as countries shift from Global Fund support (post)
An editorial published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization explains the risks related to the quality, affordability and supply of HIV and TB medical commodities with the shift from Global Fund-supported pooled procurement to national systems.
April 2019 edition of The Union's newsletter (post)
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) released its April 2019 newsletter, presenting the initiatives and activities carried out during the month, including a message from the Executive Director José Luis Castro about the importance of TB in the universal health coverage agenda. It also contains information about upcoming events.
Global Fund releases new Focus On Universal Health Coverage (post)
"Without universal access to quality health care, millions of people die unnecessarily every year, and preventable diseases including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria continue to ravage families and communities. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 3 of greater health and well-being for all, we must both end the epidemics and build stronger systems for health that can deliver universal health coverage."
IJTLD April 2019 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).
Where should TB research focus? (post)
At the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting in September 2018, heads of state committed to ending the tuberculosis epidemic by 2030. An agreement was signed at the meeting that promised $2 billion a year for TB research. Infectious Diseases in Children asked two experts — Mario C. Raviglione, FRCP (UK), FERS, Hon RSP (RF), professor of global health at the University of Milan and the Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva, and former director of WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Program, and Lisa V. Adams, MD, associate dean of global health at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth — what research should be a priority in an effort to end the global epidemic of TB in children.
Children with TB: A global public health crisis (post)
WHO estimates that 1 million children become ill with tuberculosis every year, and approximately 230,000 die. Children made up one-tenth of the estimated 10 million people worldwide who developed TB in 2017, but confirming diagnosis in children is challenging, creating critical delays in starting treatment.
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