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Tuberculosis kills over one and a half million people each year, while governments struggle with inadequate infrastructure and the increasing threat of drug-resistant strains and co-infection with HIV/AIDS.
(Photo credit: Gary Hampton/The Global Fund)
Opinions and Analysis
BioMed Analysis: Don't overlook nutrition in disease fight
Researchers and donors are not giving nutrition the attention it deserves, says Priya Shetty.
21 January 2010
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Nutrition key to cutting infection rates
Micronutrients help fight disease — it's time to turn knowledge into action, say nutrition researchers Andrew Thorne-Lyman and Wafaie Fawzi.
We can learn from XDR-TB treatment in Lima
11 August 2008
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Source: New England Journal of Medicine
Policy Briefs
Controlling TB requires public awareness
An assessment of national tuberculosis policies in select countries emphasises the need for more public engagement.
27 June 2007
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Source: Open Society Institute
Addressing health policy in Myanmar
The challenge of setting policy priorities for infectious diseases in Myanmar's current political climate.
27 June 2007
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Source: PLoS Medicine
News and Features
Cash crisis for global health fund
The health financing giant the Global Fund may have to carry out some unprecedented belt-tightening as demand outstrips its budget.
TB diagnosis boosted by faster, cheaper test
Technology that diagnoses TB in the same way that airport scanners find explosives could take the delay and labour out of testing.
11 January 2010
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Peru: Social stigma delaying TB diagnosis, says study
1 December 2009
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Scientists use nanotech to 'upgrade' TB drugs
29 September 2009
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Practical Guides
Effective TB reporting
Guidance on how journalists can help tackle TB through effective, frequent reporting on research, policy and the disease's human toll.
