Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...

The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

Shortages of manpower and low expenditure made the implementation of NTEP deficient in the State of Andhra Pradesh, making ...

There is no disagreement that foreign aid makes a difference; more resources are needed, not less. An estimated US$22 billion ...

There was no testing, no diagnoses, no treatment. What happens when TB treatment stops? Drug resistant strains develop. TB is a major contributor to the growing antimicrobial resistance problem. Drug ...

Poor treatment adherence remains a major obstacle in national tuberculosis programmes globally. Digital adherence technologies offer novel opportunities to monitor and address poor adherence. Research ...

There are already mutated forms of TB that are resistant to most drugs, and Ditiu feared the US cuts could result in a bug that no treatment can stop. "Interrupting a treatment for a drug-resistant TB ...

“Eighty percent could actually be treated with much shorter regimen and possibly even fewer drugs. I think more of that differentiation will emerge in the next five years.” Previous treatment: ...

For example, the U.S. experienced shortages of one of the primary TB drugs between 2021 and 2023. Multidrug treatment is currently the only way to cure TB and stop its spread. Prior to the late ...