By Claire Wingfield It is estimated that of the nine million new cases of tuberculosis (TB) each year, one million occur among children under the age of 15. Yet advocacy for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of TB in children has…
By Coco Jervis and Sue Perez Negligible Increases for AIDS, TB, Viral Hepatitis Treatment and Research On Monday, February 1, 2010, President Barack Obama unveiled his fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget to the U.S. Congress. Global health programs were allocated…
By Javid Syed BOTUSA study strongly supports continuous preventive IPT for people with HIV Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV. The World Health Organization’s 2009 report Global Tuberculosis Control: Epidemiology, Strategy, Financing reported…
By Claire Wingfield After 40 years of scientific stagnation, it is beginning to be an exciting time in tuberculosis treatment research. Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading killer of people with HIV worldwide, accounting for more than quarter of all HIV…
By Claire Wingfield After nearly 50 years, there is finally something to get excited about in tuberculosis (TB) drug development. Tibotec’s TMC207—the first compound from a novel class of TB drugs, the diarylquinolines—will likely be submitted to the U.S. Food…
by Javid Syed On December 8, 2010 the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed the use of the new Xpert® MTB/RIF test as the initial test offered to people suspected of having HIV-associated TB or multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB. The test, developed…
HIV, Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), and Tuberculosis Drugs, Diagnostics, Vaccines, and Preventive Technologies in Development Second Edition September 2011 Written by Polly Clayden, Simon Collins, Mark Harrington, Richard Jefferys, Tracy Swan, Javid Syed, and Claire Wingfield with a a contribution…
July 2011 Globally in 2008 there were an estimated 440,00 cases of incident multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Despite international calls for action to reach universal access to TB treatment by 2015, governments and ministries of health in high-burden countries have not…