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The 2017 Pipeline Report

Treatment Action Group (TAG) announces the launch of its annual research and development landscape analysis: The Pipeline Report: Drugs, Diagnostics, Vaccines, Preventive Technologies, Research Toward a Cure, and Immune-Based and Gene Therapies in Development.

Published
19 July 2017
From
Treatment Action Group
TB transmission and prevention
Person-to-person contact may cause most drug-resistant TB cases

The worst form of drug-resistant tuberculosis isn't just arising from inadequate treatment, it's mostly being spread from person to person, according to a new study of hundreds of cases in South Africa.

Published
23 January 2017
From
Reuters
TB transmission and prevention
Latent TB high in India's healthcare workers

While India continues to have the highest burden of tuberculosis in the world, about 23 per cent of the 8.7 million global incidences, a study reports nearly half of its healthcare workers taking care of TB patients also suffer from latent tuberculosis.

Published
17 October 2016
From
SciDevNet
TB transmission and prevention
TB drugs may be disrupted by botanical supplement, MU researchers find

MU researchers, working with scientists in Africa, discovered that a widely used African botanical supplement called Sutherlandia — traditionally taken to prevent or treat symptoms of infections — may actually disrupt the effectiveness of a common anti-tuberculosis drug, isoniazid.

Published
11 October 2016
From
Kansas City Star
Tuberculosis and HIV
Zimbabwe study sees TB go down as HIV treatment coverage goes up

As the numbers of people accessing HIV treatment went up in Zimbabwe, the numbers of reported tuberculosis cases were cut nearly in half.

Published
06 October 2016
From
Science Speaks
TB transmission and prevention
Scientists explain why Russian tuberculosis is the most infectious

Scientists conducted a large-scale analysis of the proteins and genomes of mycobacterium tuberculosis strains that are common in Russia and countries of the former Soviet Union and found features that provide a possible explanation for their epidemiological success.

Published
19 August 2016
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
TB transmission and prevention
UNITAID launches global initiative to prevent tuberculosis

UNITAID is calling for innovative proposals to make new, shorter preventive treatment regimens more easily available to those who could benefit most. The proposals that show most promise will be recommended for funding.

Published
25 May 2016
From
UNITAID
TB transmission and prevention
Leave no one behind: Stop TB Partnership launches seven key population briefs

The Stop TB Partnership today launched a series of briefs on TB key populations recognizing that reaching everyone with services, diagnostics, treatment and care is essential to ending the TB epidemic.

Published
17 May 2016
From
Stop TB Partnership
TB transmission and prevention
Proactively treating HIV patients at risk for tuberculosis with multidrug TB therapy doesn’t save more lives

In what investigators say is a surprise finding, results of a new study appear to strongly affirm the effectiveness of prescribing the anti-tuberculosis drug isoniazid alone — in place of the standard four-drug regimen — to prevent TB and reduce death in people with advanced HIV/AIDS infections. Those with HIV and AIDS are highly susceptible to TB.

Published
21 March 2016
From
Johns Hopkins Medicine
TB transmission and prevention
Screen High-Risk Adults for Tuberculosis, Experts Say

Adults at greater risk for latent tuberculosis infection should be screened for the condition, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends.

Published
09 March 2016
From
U.S. News & World Report
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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