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Experts, Advocates Urge Continued Funding For Research Into HIV, TB Vaccines

"[P]articipants at a symposium held last week by the U.K. Consortium on AIDS and International Development warned that [progress on HIV and tuberculosis (TB) vaccines] could be jeopardized by the recent downturn in global health funding," BMJ reports.

Published
23 May 2012
From
Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report
TB vaccine
PDPs agree to jointly develop new TB vaccine candidate

Aeras and the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) – two non-profit product development partnerships (PDPs) – announced Wednesday they will be joining together to develop IDRI’s novel tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate ID93/GLA-SE.

Published
10 May 2012
From
Science Speaks
Tuberculosis and HIV
Childhood tuberculosis a “hidden epidemic”

Globally, an estimated 200 children die from tuberculosis every day despite the availability of cheap drugs to prevent and treat this highly infectious condition, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said.

Published
22 March 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
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New Vaccine Strategy to Advance Solutions for Tuberculosis

Against a backdrop of growing concern about the impact of tuberculosis on children, top scientific experts today published a global plan of action for developing the vaccines that are seen as critical to eliminating the disease. Published today in a special issue of the journal, Tuberculosis, the strategic blueprint for the TB vaccine field represents consensus reached by the TB vaccine community.

Published
20 March 2012
From
Aeras
TB vaccine
New TB roadmap emphasizes critical role of research

“Elimination of tuberculosis (TB) is more than an aspiration. We know it could become a reality, but this will happen only if we achieve radical transformation in the way TB is diagnosed, treated and prevented. This goal can be realized only if TB research is intensified and envisioned in an entirely new way.”

Published
02 November 2011
From
Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI)
TB vaccine
Potential vaccine readies immune system to kill tuberculosis in mice

Researchers have developed a potential vaccine against tuberculosis that completely eliminates tuberculosis bacteria from infected tissues in some mice. The vaccine was created with a strain of bacteria that, due to the absence of a few genes, are unable to avoid its host's first-line immune response.

Published
31 October 2011
From
Science Daily
TB vaccine
Potential vaccine readies immune system to kill tuberculosis in mice

HHMI researchers have developed a potential vaccine against tuberculosis that completely eliminates tuberculosis bacteria from infected tissues in some mice.

Published
04 September 2011
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
TB vaccine
TB trial highlights challenges with introducing new vaccine into childhood immunization schedule

A new vaccine to combat tuberculosis is less effective at stimulating an immune response when administered to Gambian infants in combination with the routine immunization schedule, according to the results of a clinical trial part-funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Published
22 June 2011
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
TB vaccine
TB vaccination for all London newborns proposed

All newborn children in London could be vaccinated to reduce the spread of tuberculosis (TB), under proposals that are out for consultation.

Published
03 June 2011
From
BBC Health
Vaccines
2020 vision of vaccines for malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS

In a new article, experts discuss recent advances in vaccine development. New tools including systems biology and structure-based antigen design could lead to a deeper understanding of mechanisms of protection and illuminate the path to rational vaccine development to lift the burden of the world's most devastating infectious diseases.

Published
25 May 2011
From
Science Daily
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