Stop TB Partnership

News Stories 2012

No more TB suspects: time to change the way we talk about tuberculosis

15 May 2012

Global Fund forecasts additional $1.6 billion in available funds for 2012-2014

10 May 2012

Key advocates set agenda for building network of TB-affected community reps

04 May 2012

Ministers endorse declaration set to pave the way to zero TB deaths among miners in Southern Africa

27 April 2012

Aeras and TBVI agree to strengthen collaboration on advancing new TB vaccines

27 April 2012

TB champion Gerry Elsdon completes two-week walk across South Africa to raise awareness about TB

17 April 2012

Comment: Youth need to stand up and do something to stop TB

17 April 2012

Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Drugs launches Innovate TB contest

30 March 2012

Stop TB Partnership and Global Fund Community Representatives join forces to turn up the volume on TB

29 March 2012

Treatment Action Group finds global funding for TB research rose by just 2% in 2010

24 March 2012

World TB Day message from Dr Lucica Ditiu, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership

24 March 2012

Sentinel Project releases moving stories of children with TB

22 March 2012

UN Secretary-General marks World TB Day with visit to TB patients in Malaysia

21 March 2012

Childhood tuberculosis neglected, despite available remedies

21 March 2012

Opinion: Lucica Ditiu on a vaccine blueprint for a TB-free future

21 March 2012

New Vaccine Strategy to Advance Solutions for TB

20 March 2012

World TB Day message from the United Nations Secretary-General

16 March 2012

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gives major grant to Aeras

15 March 2012

Cutting off the head of the TB snake in Africa: Declaration on TB and mining in Africa draws closer

09 March 2012

Five-cent-a-day preventive treatment can reduce TB cases among miners by 63%

09 March 2012

TB community mourns the loss of a dedicated advocate, Congressman Donald Payne

08 March 2012

More than 900 000 lives have been saved by protecting people living with HIV from TB

02 March 2012

Video documents national champions as they work to raise awareness about TB

29 February 2012

Online consultation gathers views on getting to zero TB infections in children

27 February 2012

South African version of La Bohème opera brings TB message to the stage

23 February 2012

Interactive website launched for World TB Day campaign

21 February 2012

South Africa trials target better treatment for children with MDR-TB

14 February 2012

Gates Foundation invests $7.7 million in TB diagnostics research

09 February 2012

WHO reports highest ever levels of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

03 February 2012

NIH joins Aeras in clinical trial of new tuberculosis vaccine

31 January 2012

Global meeting on tuberculosis opens today

30 January 2012

Opinion: Why is Research Critical to Stop Tuberculosis?

27 January 2012

Indian partnership launches call for action against drug-resistant TB

26 January 2012

New information hub for national Stop TB partnerships launched

25 January 2012

Update on capreomycin and kanamycin supply by the Global Drug Facility

15 January 2012

China National Biotec Group and Aeras sign agreement on TB vaccine research and development

10 January 2012

Dr Evan Lee named Vice President of Lilly’s Global Health Programs and Access

03 January 2012

News editor:

Judith Mandelbaum-Schmid

News writers:

Sam Nuttall
Vittorio Cammarota
Young-Ae Chu
Jenniffer Dietrich
Elisabetta Minelli