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  • TB leads to poorer CD4 cell gains after starting HIV treatment

    Tuberculosis (TB) is associated with an impaired immune response to antiretroviral therapy, according to Italian research published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. The study involved patients starting HIV therapy for the first time. Individuals with TB had ...

    23 December 2011 | Michael Carter

  • Poor adherence not enough to cause development of MDR-TB

    Poor adherence may not be enough to cause multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, a laboratory study published in the online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases suggests. Moreover, the failure of tuberculosis (TB) therapy only occurred at extremely high levels of non-adherence. ...

    08 November 2011 | Michael Carter

  • Screening and treatment removes TB as additional punishment in prisons

    Innovative tuberculosis control programmes in prisons have reduced the prevalence of TB, and successfully provided isoniazid preventive therapy and treatment for both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB, researchers reported at the 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health held in Lille ...

    07 November 2011 | Lesley Odendal

  • Funding for TB research and development declining

    Funding levels for tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R &D) fell by 0.3% in 2010 compared to 2009, according to new data released by the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the Stop TB Partnership in the annual Report on ...

    07 November 2011 | Lesley Odendal

  • An intensive household counselling intervention reduces the burden of TB in ZAMSTAR study

    An intensive ‘household counselling’ intervention (involving TB contact tracing, multiple home visits, TB & HIV counselling and screening with linkages to care) reduced the prevalence of culture positive tuberculosis (TB) by 22% within randomised communities in Zambia and the ...

    02 November 2011 | Theo Smart

  • Indonesia: Injecting drug use a major risk factor for HIV-associated TB

    A study in Indonesia has found that people with HIV who injected drugs were 85% more likely to have HIV-associated tuberculosis than those who were not injecting drug users. The findings were presented at the 42nd Union World Lung Health ...

    31 October 2011 | Lesley Odendal

  • HIV and TB activist Winstone Zulu dead

    The prominent HIV and TB activist Winstone Zulu has died at the age of 47 in hospital in Lusaka. Mr Zulu was diagnosed with HIV in 1990 and was the first person in Zambia to make a public statement about ...

    12 October 2011 | Keith Alcorn

  • Risk factors for development of TB after starting HIV therapy identified in North American research

    The development of tuberculosis (TB) after the initiation of antiretroviral therapy is associated with a low CD4 cell count, injecting drug use, and non-white race, investigators from the US and Canada report in the September 15th edition of the Journal ...

    25 August 2011 | Michael Carter

  • HPTN 052: early treatment reduces serious illness by 40%

    Early treatment in the HPTN 052 study of treatment as prevention reduced serious illness by around 40%, delegates at the Sixth International AIDS Society conference (IAS 2011) heard – but the effect was almost entirely accounted for by fewer ...

    18 July 2011 | Keith Alcorn

  • High prevalence of asymptomatic TB in HIV patients in Cape Town

    HIV-positive patients in South Africa who are not yet taking antiretroviral therapy have a high prevalence of asymptomatic tuberculosis (TB), investigators report in Thorax. Sputum screening showed that 8.5% of patients had TB, without having any symptoms of the infection ...

    15 June 2011 | Michael Carter
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  • PEPFAR Raided to Meet Global Fund Pledge in President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2013

    The Obama Administration released its fiscal year 2013 budget today with a proposed $1.65 billion funding level—an increase of 26.9 percent – for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to meet the US pledge of $4 billion over 3 years.  This substantial and welcome budget request for the Global fund clearly came at the expense of PEPFAR, the U.S.’s flagship bilateral program which is slated for a stunning cut of $542.9 million—a reduction of almost 13 percent. 

    18 hours ago | Science Speaks: HIV & TB News

  • Inaccurate TB blood tests commonplace in many TB high-burden countries

    Although recent press attention has highlighted the problematic use of TB serological tests by medical providers in India, a new paper in The European Respiratory Journal (Widespread use of serological tests for tuberculosis: data from 22 high-burden countries) demonstrates that the use of these tests is much wider spread.

    03 February 2012 | Science Speaks

  • TANZANIA: Good results in programme to boost TB detection

    A pilot community programme to improve TB detection in northern Tanzania has shown good results and could be replicated nationwide as the country seeks to improve its TB treatment and prevention systems.

    01 February 2012 | IRIN PlusNews

  • Fear-Resistance: How Worried Should We Be about "Totally Drug-Resistant" Tuberculosis?

    An Indian clinic's claim of totally untreatable TB ignited public fears, but experts say poor disease management is the real threat

    01 February 2012 | Scientific American

  • Patient with deadly TB strain tests positive for HIV

    A patient with extra-extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XXDR TB) has tested positive for HIV. Public health experts say the coming together of the two dreaded infections is worrying.

    26 January 2012 | Times of India

  • PERU: In Prison, a Little Health Care Goes a Long Way

    "I caught tuberculosis, but I'm lucky because it's been cured," says Hernán Arévalo from his bed in the new hospital at the Peruvian prison of Lurigancho, one of the most crowded and dangerous in Latin America. "Before, whoever came in here was unlikely to get out alive."

    20 January 2012 | Inter Press Service

  • Indian TB cases 'can't be cured'

    Tuberculosis which appears to be totally resistant to antibiotic treatment has been reported for the first time by Indian doctors.

    17 January 2012 | BBC Health

  • Totally Drug Resistant TB strain turns up in patients in India

    Doctors at the Hinduja National Hospital and Research Centre in Mumbai, India, are reporting on a strain of tuberculosis (TB) emerging among patients that is resistant to all first- and second-line drugs used to treat the bacterial infection. At least twelve patients have been identified so far.

    11 January 2012 | Science Speaks: HIV & TB News

  • Deadly tuberculosis stalks Europe

    The WHO's Regional Office for Europe recently released a report that warned about the spread of the hard-to-treat MDR-TB into all of Europe, making the case that the relatively wealthy capitals of the West faced the grave danger of a much higher number of cases if the entire region did not move quickly to put in place effective control measures.

    03 January 2012 | Global Post

  • Cambodia - MSF Steps Up Tuberculosis Support

    Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is scaling up its tuberculosis (TB) support in the Cambodian province of Kampong Cham while continuing to help shape the nation’s national TB programme.

    03 January 2012 | MSF
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