An oral abstract symposium featured a number of presentations on this broad topic at the Union World Conference on Lung Health Friday. What follows is a snapshot of several of them: Successfully tested but not enrolled in HIV care, missed opportunities for TB patients in rural Zambia S. Muvuma reported on a study that followed […]
Jan Gheuens, Acting Director of the TB program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) informed a packed audience at the International Conference of Lung Health of key changes in the Foundation’s strategy on tuberculosis. The goal of the revamped strategy is to accelerate a reduction in TB incidence, which Gheuens described as more […]
HIV
The goals of controlling HIV sound like a straight forward series of three consecutive steps, one following another, when discussed in global and domestic epidemic-ending plans. […]
Tuberculosis
The announcement Wednesday of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of pretomanid, a new tuberculosis drug that has been part of a ground-breaking treatment regimen against […]
Research & Development
A randomized, multi-country clinical trial testing a regimen for treating drug-resistant tuberculosis in less than a year against the up to two-year regimen recommended by the […]
Policy
With a report showing that 2018 yielded the highest case numbers seen so far of a paralyzing condition largely among children who had been sick with […]