Global Drug Facility and partners will scale up MDR-TB treatment with UNITAID funding
Stoptb.org
People with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) in India will have improved access to treatment thanks to a joint initiative between the Stop TB Partnership's Global Drug Facility (GDF), the Green Light Committee (GLC), The Global Fund against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and UNITAID. The initiative is a new phase of the MDR-TB Scale Up Initiative, which seeks to increase the number of patients receiving second-line drugs and have a positive impact on market dynamics for these drugs, through improvement in price, quality and delivery.
TB Survival Prize 2010 (Call for Nominations)
The prize, an annual award of $2000 kindly sponsored by the Lilly MDR-TB Partnership, is awarded in recognition of innovation in TB/MDR-TB advocacy and social mobilization, and the winner will also be profiled on the TBSP website. The call for nominations for The Tuberculosis Survival Prize 2010 closes on the 8th October 2010.
The World Bank’s East Africa Lab Network: An Overview
In May the Bank approved Public Health Lab Networking Project in East Africa. The initiative is a good first step towards strengthening laboratory capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
India’s Search For TB Drug Feaured In BBC Health Check
How will Obama's health reforms change the health of America? Why counting the dead and finding out why people die improves public helath. And India's search for a TB drug.
Singapore To Improve Detection And Treatment Of Tuberculosis
Gov Monitor
An investment of S$3 million is being pumped into tuberculosis (TB) research by A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), bioindustrial group Institut Mérieux and its in vitro diagnostics company bioMérieux.
TB cases down in India
Sify News
The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) is showing a declining trend as a result of the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP), parliament was told Friday.
Fears over TB treatment funding cuts in London
BBC News
"Vulnerable" people may be put at risk because funding for London's mobile tuberculosis detection unit is to end, it is claimed.
Vienna 2010:TB screening - more talk, no action
http://healthdev.net
This week the world is converging in Vienna Austria for the 18th International AIDS conference. More pledges, promises and declarations will be made to add to others that have been made previously without any or very minimal implementation if any.
Health watchdogs sound alarm over TB/HIV deaths
Associated Free Press
Two global health agencies joined forces on Thursday in a campaign aimed at averting 200,000 deaths each year by co-infection from tuberculosis and the AIDS virus.
