First-ever United Nations High-Level Meeting on TB provides historic opportunity

We continue the series of special interviews by Natasha Sidorenko “Real stories of living with HIV and overcoming TB”.

We continue the series of special feature interviews by Natasha Sidorenko "Life stories about living with HIV and overcoming tuberculosis".

In a special session at the close of the 22nd International AIDS Conference, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and other high-level speakers called for urgent action to better integrate the responses to tuberculosis (TB) and HIV.

Few weeks before the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on the fight against Tuberculosis, the EATG issues an open letter.

For 6 years in the Russian Federation, 178 permits have been issued for the clinical trials of medications for the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS. This is seven times more than in the previous six years, from 2006 to 2011, when 25 studies were approved. While ...

Each year we commemorate World TB Day on March 24 to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of tuberculosis (TB) and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr. ...

This new document – the guide to develop a national TB PPM action plan – is a planning document designed to facilitate the integration of strong PPM components into national TB strategic plans that are supposed to be the basis for Global Fund proposals and ...

The price of this test will be about 1,000 rubles. The test is expected to get registered before the end of the year.

The guide explains what global standards are for TB prevention, treatment, and care, so people with TB and their caregivers can know what services they have the right to receive.

The Ministry of Health of Azerbaijan informed about the decrease of TB morbidity and mortality indicators.

"After eight years as an informal regional advocacy network, the TB Europe Coalition is proud to inform you that it has just become a legal entity, registered in the Netherlands. This now makes it possible for TB Europe Coalition to access grants and step up ...

For most multicountry priority areas, the Global Fund will hold a competitive application process through requests for proposals. See Multicountry Funding Applications for detailed information on multicountry funding and a full list of the forthcoming requests for proposals. Any eligible applicant may submit a funding request in response ...

The report published today focuses on the status of current, emerging and potential technologies in TB diagnosis. Many countries still rely on tools such as sputum-smear microscopy but new diagnostics are slowly changing the TB diagnostics landscape. Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major public health ...