Dora Kugbonu, the Keta Municipal Health Promotion Officer, in the Volta Region, has cautioned the public against ...

On March 25, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first new antibiotic to treat UTIs in 30 years. The ...

Both TB treatment and TB preventive therapy involve taking lots of pills, usually for several months. Researchers are working on new long-acting formulations that might, for example, reduce an entire ...

Bedaquiline, the first new TB drug approved in 40 years by the USFDA, faced several challenges, including initial trial ...

While tuberculosis has options for prevention and is curable, more than 1 million people die from the disease on a global ...

In spite of concerted partnerships to stamp out tuberculosis (TB) in Nigeria, stakeholders are worried it still kills thousands in the country. According to the National Tuberculosis, Leprosy and ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for an urgent investment of resources to protect and maintain tuberculosis (TB) ...

Withdrawal of USAID support will severely threaten tuberculosis control efforts in Ethiopia and in many other countries around the world.

WHO issued a statement outlining the grave consequences of the US decision to drastically cut international funding for tuberculosis. WHO noted that countries with high burdens of tuberculosis disease ...

Governments and donors must ensure funding is sustained to fight tuberculosis, as recent US pullback on foreign aid has devastating effects on operations.

Under USAID funding, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) had been running approximately eight projects under which active tuberculosis or TB cases were ...

This day’s significance also lies in the discovery of bacterium that causes TB by Dr. Robert Koch in 1882. His discovery opened the way for diagnosing and curing this disease.