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MSF: Patients in India suffer the consequences of poor regulation of TB drugs (post with simple image)
The ministry of health must act to stop drug resistance from spiralling.
UNITAID urges focus on better treatment of MDR-TB (post with simple image)
Until better medicines are introduced, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis will remain a dangerous global threat.
TB still major health concern in Indonesia (post with simple image)
Yulinda Santosa was talking enthusiastically to some people in the room. She was eloquent, cheerful and seemed perfectly healthy. It’s hard to believe that until last year she was still suffering from a serious illness that nearly killed her and forced her to put her life on hold for years.
The Lancet journals: World TB Day media alert (post with simple image)
For World TB Day 2014, The Lancet group publishes a Series of papers to highlight the need for global collaboration to diagnose, treat, and cure people with tuberculosis.
Fighting the white plague (post with simple image)
Today is World TB Day. More people die of tuberculosis in South Africa than from any other disease.
Launch of study to determine proper TB treatment for babies with TB (post with simple image)
Data will guide development of improved TB treatment for infants.
TBnet: New consensus reached to help tackle multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB (post with simple image)
The document summarises the current knowledge on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of adults and children with MDR/XDR-TB and their contacts, and provides expert consensus recommendations on questions where scientific evidence is still lacking.
Tuberculosis makes a comeback (post with simple image)
Yerevan, Armenia - In a barren hospital room, Arman lies on a messily made bed as a nurse administers one of two daily antibiotic injections into his forearm. The 35-year-old ex-soldier was admitted nearly 18-months ago, having suffered a relapse of the bacterial lung infection tuberculosis (TB).
European Voice: New policy report on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (post with simple image)
Report, titled "The fight against tuberculosis", discusses the rising incidence of MDR-TB, the need for more effective treatments, new vaccines and better diagnostics and what needs to be done at a European level to tackle this preventable disease.
Fool’s errand: The sloppy science of the MDR-TB STREAM trial (post with simple image)
Confirming the efficacy and safety of bedaquiline-inclusive regimens is a priority. Comparing them to unvalidated MDR-TB drug combinations in the planned STREAM study is not the way to go about it.
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