Stop TB Partnership

News Stories 2014

Latvia to host ground-breaking conference on TB in Europe

16 December 2014

Mumbai Mission for Tuberculosis (TB) Control, India

16 December 2014

Laying the foundation for an ambitious Global Plan 2016-2020

15 December 2014

Gamechanger: USAID and Janssen Therapeutics announce US$30 million worth of free bedaquiline to treat drug-resistant TB

12 December 2014

New Report Estimates that Failure to Address Drug-Resistant TB and Other Infections will Cause $100 Trillion Economic Loss By 2050

11 December 2014

BRICS Health Ministers Make Historic Commitments in the Fight Against TB

05 December 2014

Close the biggest gap of all -- fighting AIDS and TB together will fast track our global response to ending the TB and HIV epidemics by 2030

01 December 2014

Stop TB Partnership: New Home -- New Year -- New Opportunities

28 November 2014

Do you know how the 22 high TB burden countries are using the new "Xpert MTB/RIF" test?

13 November 2014

Work on the Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020 Progresses: Task Force Meets in Barcelona

30 October 2014

Stop TB Partnership commends first ever creation of Global TB Caucus and signing of Barcelona Declaration on TB

29 October 2014

TB Control: High time to think outside the box, says Minister of Health for India

29 October 2014

REACH Ethiopia sets the bar high as winner of this year's Stop TB Partnership Kochon Prize

28 October 2014

High level meeting between Ministers of Health for South Africa and India and senior leaders of the Stop TB Partnership

28 October 2014

Dr Lucica Ditiu at the 45th Union Conference in Barcelona

27 October 2014

Now Released: TB REACH case studies on improved case finding

27 October 2014

First international parliamentarian TB summit to precede the Union World Conference on Lung Health

26 October 2014

Civil society not involved enough in National TB Programmes to combat drug-resistant TB: Report

24 October 2014

Another year - same trends: why change is essential in TB now more than ever before

23 October 2014

TB Research: Why Should Everyone Be Worried

22 October 2014

Three organizations shortlisted for prestigious 2014 Kochon Prize

07 October 2014

USAID Announces "Challenge TB" Award to Fight Tuberculosis

03 October 2014

Chair of the Stop TB Coordinating Board Advocates for TB and TB-HIV Investment and Political Priority in Washington and New York

24 September 2014

Stop TB Partnership at the 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health

19 September 2014

Partner of the Month: Highlighting the work of the Nepal Anti-Tuberculosis Association (NATA) on MDR-TB

01 September 2014

TB REACH Spotlight: Strengthened case detection at government health facilities leads to significant treatment initiation increases in Tajikistan

01 September 2014

USAID's report on Public-Private Mix Models for the Sustainability of Successful TB Control Initiatives now available online

01 September 2014

Francophone Africa countries meet in Dakar - Senegal

01 September 2014

Civil society actors from across Asia come together to fight against TB

12 August 2014

New hope for MDR-TB patients

05 August 2014

Tajikistan launches its national Stop TB Partnership

04 August 2014

TB REACH Spotlight: Nomadic tribe in Nigeria makes significant gains in TB case detection

29 July 2014

Chen-Yuan Chiang of The Union: Changing the landscape for TB and lung health

28 July 2014

TB care for former prisioners in Azerbaijan

25 July 2014

New drug treatment could dramatically speed up TB cure

21 July 2014

Latin American workshop on civil society’s fight against tuberculosis focuses on helping countries understand Global Fund’s new funding model

17 July 2014

The Stop TB Partnership to move its Secretariat from WHO to UNOPS

16 July 2014

Stop TB Partnership Board meets to strengthen coordination, advocacy, scale up of the global TB efforts

14 July 2014

Dying for a cure: R&D for global health

10 July 2014

Stop TB Partnership - Global Fund Board member for Partners Constituency as of 1 July 2014

03 July 2014

Apathy in TB fight: The Economist Intelligence Unit

30 June 2014

TB knows no boundaries as Nepal PM is diagnosed with the disease

27 June 2014

New Delhi hosts panel discussion on tackling TB in BRICS countries

26 June 2014

Stop TB Partnership and Global Fund ensure communities and affected people are at the core of the New Funding Model

25 June 2014

Undermined: An epidemic in South Africa’s gold mines

17 June 2014

Thiago Silva: Brazil Captain and TB Survivor

13 June 2014

A Strategic Approach to Global Tuberculosis: A report by Center for Strategic and International Studies

10 June 2014

Global Drug Facility reaches a 58% price reduction for Rifabutin by adding a new supplier to its product catalogue

06 June 2014

Announcing the call for 2014 Kochon Prize nominations

03 June 2014

Innovators in TB case-finding from 23 countries meet in Tbilisi

02 June 2014

Twenty-two civil society organizations to receive grants from the Stop TB Partnership

27 May 2014

How Will New Estimates of Poverty Impact Aid For Health?

27 May 2014

Ministers of Health Agree to the Goal of Zero New Deaths from TB at 67th World Health Assembly

27 May 2014

Stop TB and the Global Fund commit to support countries and TB communities

23 May 2014

WHA approves Post-2015 Global Strategy and Targets For Tuberculosis Prevention, Care and Control

19 May 2014

Dr Lucica Ditiu, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership gives an update on the 67th World Health Assembly

19 May 2014

Global Drug Facility holds annual stakeholder meeting in Hong Kong

08 May 2014

Stop TB Partnership welcomes new UNITAID financing for drug-resistant TB

07 May 2014

Debate: Addressing global health inequities

05 May 2014

Pakistan President meets with heads of the Global Fund and Stop TB Partnership

05 May 2014

Diagnosis of childhood TB could be improved by genetic discovery

01 May 2014

Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility to distribute Bedaquiline (Sirturo) developed by Janssen

30 April 2014

Susan Desmond-Hellmann, new CEO of the Gates Foundation assumes office on May 1, 2014

28 April 2014

Affordable cure for drug-resistant TB on the horizon

24 April 2014

Rwanda, 20 years on: an inspiration for health systems strengthening

07 April 2014

Stop TB Partnership and the Global Fund urge AU Finance Ministers to Make Health a Priority

02 April 2014

The world gets grade F in terms of its effort on TB: Bill Gates

31 March 2014

Southern African countries commit to address TB in the mining sector

26 March 2014

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

24 March 2014

Statement: BRICS Countries Call for United Action to Advance Global Progress Against Tuberculosis

24 March 2014

WHO, Stop TB Partnership and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria launch joint brochure on Reaching the 3 Million for World TB Day

21 March 2014

Progress in diagnosing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: Innovative project expands access to new tests

20 March 2014

US$13.9 million in new funding announced for TB REACH Wave 4 projects

19 March 2014

Documentary on TB in Swaziland: Return of the Plague

18 March 2014

Tuberculosis control in big cities and urban risk groups in the European Union: A consensus statement

12 March 2014

Launch of new funding model: Lost momentum and missed opportunity

07 March 2014

Europe approves bedaquiline for MDR-TB

06 March 2014

Indian President warns that tuberculosis cannot be controlled globally unless it is controlled in India

23 February 2014

Lesotho achieves sustainable financing for procurement of TB drugs

17 February 2014

Winter Olympics medallist bikes in India for TB & MSF

10 February 2014

IFRC and the Global Fund target universal TB treatment in Niger: Vulnerable populations to benefit

06 February 2014

Stop TB Partnership and Kochon Foundation announce recipients of award for distinguished achievements in combating tuberculosis

31 January 2014

South African Deputy President calls for stronger partnerships as Coordinating Board Meeting opens in Cape Town

31 January 2014

Global Collaboration Forms to Advance Japanese TB Vaccine Technology

27 January 2014

Combination of preventative approaches needed to tackle TB in South Africa’s gold mines

23 January 2014