What Is Tuberculosis (TB)? Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is a type of bacterium (sometimes called a bug) that, for thousands of years, has caused TB disease (called consumption in the past). TB remains a major, if often unnoticed, problem today. TB…
On January 18, 2013, in Washington, D.C., TAG held a consultation on the domestic TB drug shortage crisis. The meeting was cosponsored by PATH, RESULTS, the Center for Global Health Policy, and the American Thoracic Society.
Simultaneous, not sequential, evaluations of novel drug regimens needed to speed TB treatment research By Lindsay McKenna An example of a multi-arm multi-stage (MAMS) phase II trial design. At the first interim analysis, novel regimen 2 is considered to lack…
Rifapentine’s manufacturer helps to advance TB research while stalling access By Erica Lessem Sanofi-Aventis, manufacturer of the tuberculosis (TB) drug rifapentine (Priftin), can be credited for aiding research efforts to shorten and simplify treatment dosing for TB. However, the company’s…
Poor treatment options spur innovative research strategies By Polly Clayden, HIV i-Base Pediatric Drug Development Considerations: Pharmacokinetics There is an old adage in pediatric medicine: children are not little adults. This is particularly true when it comes to tuberculosis, for…
By Mark Harrington Now in its 20th year of publication, TAGline has long sought to inform its readers and TAG supporters of the myriad research and policy challenges we face as a community in the ongoing fight against HIV and…
Advancing Research, Securing Access: Now in its 20th year of publication, TAGline has long sought to inform its readers and TAG supporters of the myriad research and policy challenges we face as a community in the ongoing fight against HIV and two of its insidious comorbidities, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis. Many of these challenges are inextricably intertwined, as we highlight in this issue focusing on specific clinical research and treatment-access hurdles threatening progress for all three diseases.
Treatment Action Group (TAG), in partnership with the Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (Sentinel Project) released today We Can Heal: Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, Care and Support: Addressing Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Children. This collection, released in anticipation of World TB Day on March 24, calls for urgent attention to the global problem of pediatric drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB).
Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, Care, and Support: Addressing Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Children March 21, 2013 TB in a child is considered a sentinel health event as it signals recent transmission of tuberculosis (TB), which is preventable and curable. A child infected…
by Erica Lessem December 28, 2012, was a historic day for the one million people around the world with strains of tuberculosis (TB) that are particularly difficult to treat. For the first time in forty years, the United States Food…