Tuberculosis - TB

Pharmaceutical innovation continues to drive improvements in global health

Over the past 15 years, pharmaceutical innovation, coupled with lower prices and improved access to essential medicines, has driven improvements in global health outcomes, says a World Health Organization report.…

Serious gaps remain in treatment of multidrug-resistant TB, says WHO report

Progress has been made in the global fight against tuberculosis but serious gaps remain in the detection and treatment of the disease, says a World Health Organization report.…

Tuberculosis vaccine candidate outperforms BCG in animal study

Researchers gave animals a modified version of the tuberculosis bacterium, which helped them fight off infection from disease-causing TB.…

Janssen provides free courses of anti-TB drug bedaquiline

Georgia has become the first country to receive free courses of the anti-tuberculosis drug bedaquiline (Sirturo) through an innovative drug donation partnership between USAID and Janssen Therapeutics.…

Glaucoma treatment may counter the virulence of tuberculosis

Researchers screened compounds that inhibit the way Mycobacterium tuberculosis  adapts to its environment in a host.…

Combination anti-TB regimen shows bactericidal action, trial indicates

A shorter drug regimen for the treatment of tuberculosis is on the horizon, involving moxifloxacin, pretomanid and pyrazinamide.…

Gates Foundation aims to cut drug registration times by 50% in sub-Saharan Africa by 2018

Speeding up the time it takes to register drugs, vaccines and diagnostics in low and middle income countries is a key strategy for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.…

Mario Raviglione: an ambitious new strategy to end tuberculosis

To coincide with World Tuberculosis Day on 24 March, the World Health Organization has called for support to achieve an ambitious new 20-year strategy to end the tuberculosis epidemic by 2035. Mario Raviglione, director of the WHO’s Global TB Programme, discusses the tasks and c…

Tuberculosis: New drugs from the sea

A team of researchers from a German university has isolated a series of secondary metabolites from the marine sponge Callyspongia aerizusa that have anti-TB activity.…

Teaching pharmacy students in Namibia

Newcastle-based pharmacist Nicola Rudall took a career break to teach clinical pharmacy to students in Namibia, in south-western Africa. Here, she describes the challenges she encountered and why this role is so vital.…