2022​​​​​​​

• The Global Health Agreements on TB Treatment Price
  
• San Diego: MTS rider diagnosed with TB
  
• National tuberculosis outbreak traced to donated leg bone is troubling
  
• A Breakthrough Tuberculosis Treatment Just Got Safer
  
• Transit riders warned of possible tuberculosis exposure
  
• Beginning of the end': patients hail new treatment for drug-resistant TB
  
• War-Torn Ukraine Is Also an HIV and Tuberculosis Hot Spot
  
• The global picture of Tuberculosis: A view from WHO
  
• Oxygen responses of T cells alter protection against tuberculosis
  
• Why Did We Need COVID Vaccines if the TB Vaccine Offers Protection?
  
• Could our gender impact how our immune system reacts?
  
• Tuberculosis Affects More Men Globally — But Women Feel More of a Social Impact
  
• The need to address the impact of COVID-19 on TB control for vulnerable groups
  
• The profit driven system can only lead to inequality, poverty, hunger and TB
  
• Evidence and ethical considerations for the treatment of contacts exposed to drug-resistant TB
  
• Responding to WHO´s 4-month regimen for drug-susceptible pulmonary TB
  
• The COVID-19 pandemic does not bode well for TB control
  
• Use of 3HP for TB preventive treatment in prisons
  
• Post-TB lung disease in three African countries
  
• Impact of COVID-19 on diagnosis and testing for TB in a high-resource, low-burden setting
  
• Cutaneous adverse drug reactions to fixed-dose combination treatments for TB
  
• Xpert® MTB/RIF Ultra: detection of extrapulmonary TB in a high-burden setting
  
• Reflecting on the relationship between residential schools and TB in Canada
  
• Responding to the post-pandemic crisis: post-exposure prophylaxis for TB
  
• ​100-year-old tuberculosis vaccine may protect against COVID
  
• TB Drug vs. COVID?
  
• Why a Century-Old Vaccine Offers New Hope Against Pathogens
  
• ​Durability of Tuberculosis Drug Increased through New Formulation
  
• Scientists Create Long-acting Injectable Drug Delivery System for Tuberculosis
  
• Study: Tuberculosis Vaccine May Only Protect Children Under Age 5
  
• BCG Vaccination Delivers Disease Protection to Different People
  
• BCG vaccine produces a "trained immunity response" which lasts more than a year
  
• TB Resistance Insights Gleaned From Genome Sequence, Antimicrobial Response Assays
  
• How Ukraine Prevented HIV, TB Outbreaks Despite War
  
• Ukraine's battle to prevent a regional health crisis
  
• Immune boosting benefits of tuberculosis vaccine seen in infants more than a year after vaccination
  
• Tuberculosis vaccine passes safety test: study
  
• Ukraine's battle to prevent a regional health crisis
  
• ‘I don’t know where I caught it’: War derails Ukraine’s TB fight
  
• Russia's 'War Against Evidence-Based Medicine' in Ukraine
  
• ​HIV test-and-treat reduces TB incidence in the community
  
• Oral six-month treatment for MDR-TB is safe and effective in people with HIV
  
• Project aims to devise tests to accelerate TB eradication
  
• High rates of chronic hepatitis B and TB co-infection observed in nationally representative Quest Diagnostics study
  
• Study reveals 25.2% of tuberculosis patients showed resistance to known TB drugs
  
• Urban Design in an Antibiotic-Resistant World: Lessons From Mumbai
  
• War in Ukraine and the TB epidemic
  
• Randomized, controlled trial of a protein-calorie supplement for women coinfected with HIV-TB
  
• Family directly observed therapy for children with drug-resistant TB
  
• The COVID-19 and TB syndemic: the way forward
  
• Travel reimbursements, distance to health facility and preventive treatment cascade for drug-resistant TB
  
• Bridging the gap: key evidence needed to strengthen global policies to end TB
  
• ​TB diagnosis and treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic
  
• ​Scaling up shorter TB preventive treatment is long overdue
  
• TB-causing bacteria can evolve rapidly in response to new environments, study says
  
• New Insights into How Tuberculosis Grows to Resist Antibiotics
  
• Genetic mutations enable efficient evolution of TB-causing bacteria
  
• ​New Insights Into How Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Grows To Resist Antibiotics Could Have Implications For Developing More Effective Treatments For Infection 
  
• Tuberculosis Among Tertiary Care Hospital Residents & Nurses
  
• Can a Recombinant BCG Vaccine Better Protect HIV-Positive Children?
  
• 5 Things to Know About the New 4-Month TB Treatment Regimen
  
• Plan calls for more funding to bring TB under control
  
• Online project explores Indigenous tuberculosis history
  
• Meta-analysis reveals multidrug-resistant TB treatment safe in pregnancy
  
• Machine Learning Model Predicts Infection With Treatment-Resistant Tuberculosis
  
• Canada needs to implement pandemic preparedness in dealing with TB
  
• Blood-based biomarkers as a promising tool for early detection of incipient Tuberculosis in people living with HIV
  
• Working to discover new treatments for tuberculosis
  
• ​NEW! “Addressing The Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) and Tuberculosis (TB) Barriers of Community Health Centers Serving Asian, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders ” Blog Series
  
• ​Being heard on all-oral therapy for resistant tuberculosis
  
• 25 years of surveillance of drug-resistant tuberculosis: achievements, challenges, and way forward
  
• Clinical standards for drug-susceptible TB: putting patients first
  
• WHO drug-resistant TB guidelines 2022: what is new?
  
• Community-based intervention and health education to scale up TB preventive treatment for children
  
• Monitoring TB program performance
  
• T-SPOT.TB performed in lymphnodal tissue for the diagnosis of lymphadenitic TB
  
• TB reporting declines in priority countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
  
• Incidence of TB among kidney transplant recipients in a setting with universal isoniazid prophylaxis
  
• STOP TB PARTNERSHIP’S FOCUS GROUP ON AI-BASED IMAGING IN TB (FG-AITB) EXPERIENCE SHARING WEBINARS
  
• ICMR to begin study to evaluate BCG booster dose for kids, adolescents
  
• ICMR's top research institute developing sputum-free tests for diagnosing TB
  
• ​Positive signs for new TB testing strategy
  
• ​HIV control approaches may not work for TB: lessons from South Africa and Zambia
  
• Latent TB testing, positivity increased throughout 2021
  
• The Intersection of SARS-CoV-2 With TB: It's Complicated
  
• Prior Cytomegalovirus Associated With Increased Risk for Tuberculosis
  
• Impact of Rv0678 mutations on patients with drug-resistant TB treated with bedaquiline
  
• New TB drug combination trial – hope for shorter treatment
  
• Gender differences in health-seeking behaviour, diagnosis and treatment for TB
  
• Canadian immigrants´ awareness and perceptions of TB infection and TB
  
• New standards for precision medicine in TB management
  
• Undernutrition can no longer be an afterthought for global efforts to eliminate TB
  
• Towards meaningful inclusion of people affected by TB: lessons from the COVID-19 response
  
• Evidence of safety for pretomanid and male reproductive health
  
• Moldova Tames TB Via Mobile Phones
  
• Hundreds of Potential New Drug Targets Discovered for Tuberculosis
  
• Tobacco Exposed - Poisoning our planet and a key driver for the TB epidemic
  
• Inhaled vaccine for COVID-19: The pandemic accelerated decades of research leading to jab-free vaccine now in human testing
  
• Delayed T cell Response Allows Tuberculosis to Gain Foothold in Monkeys
  
• Are oral swabs the future of TB testing?
  
• Tuberculosis: The Disease That Changed World History
  
• UVA scientists make progress in their longstanding efforts to combat tuberculosis
  
• Nunavut admits to large tuberculosis outbreak in Pangnirtung months later
  
• Canadian Arctic tuberculosis outbreak lays bare overcrowded living conditions
  
• Expert: Alarming Increase in Tuberculosis Deaths Emerging in COVID’s Wake
  
• A periplasmic cinched protein is required for siderophore secretion and virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  
• Monitoring IgG against Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins in an Asian elephant cured of tuberculosis that developed from long-term latency
  
• Ukrainian refugees entering US will undergo health and security checks
  
• Linezolid dosing as part of three-drug regimen for drug-resistant TB
  
• Delayed Adaptive Immune Response to Tuberculosis Points to Vaccination Strategies
  
• Rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis is hidden in plain sight
  
• Ukrainians seeking shelter in US must have TB screenings and certain vaccinations
  
• Report: Pacific Islanders Face Increased Risk Of TB Infection
  
• Tuberculosis Cases are on the Rise in Washington as COVID Continues
  
• New genetic markers could improve early detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis
  
• Researchers investigate IgG antibodies against Mtb proteins in an Asian elephant cured of tuberculosis
  
• ​The path out of the tuberculosis crisis
  
• Russian Propaganda Spreading Fake News Of 'Tuberculosis Epidemic' In Ukraine's Army
  
• ​Can we improve on a once-in-a-century TB vaccine?
  
• Tuberculosis cases rise in Washington, leading to the state's largest outbreak in 20 years
  
• The U.S. Ignores the Ongoing Pandemic at Our Own Peril
  
• ​Q&A: We did it for COVID-19 — so why not for TB?
  
• WHO calls for shorter drug course for resistant TB
  
• Pitt Scientists Find Clues to Guide Development of Effective Therapies Against Tuberculosis
  
• Covid-19 Has Made Tuberculosis Even More Of A Forgotten Pandemic
  
• MSF clinical trial influences new WHO tuberculosis guidelines
  
• Worst TB Outbreak in 20 Years Reported in Washington State
  
• Randomised-controlled trials and real-world evidence for optimising TB management
  
• Rapid molecular diagnostics to detect resistance to second-line anti-TB drugs
  
• Canadian immigrants´ awareness and perceptions of TB infection and TB
  
• Prevalence of TB and health-seeking behaviour
  
• Preventive treatment for MDR-TB exposure in households
  
• TB mortality in low-incidence countries: can we reduce it further?
  
• The war in Ukraine and potential consequences for the TB epidemic in Europe
  
• ​Somebody at San Ysidro High Had Tuberculosis and Exposed Students and Staff: Health Officials
  
• ​Implications of bedaquiline-resistant tuberculosis
  
• Tuberculosis patients in Ukraine at risk, some refugee groups to be tested
  
• Less than half of people with latent TB in the US initiate therapy
  
• Tuberculosis defenses could also protect against COVID-19
  
• In the Midst of COVID, Tuberculosis Cases on the Rise
  
• Saskatoon researchers examine effects of COVID-19 and Tuberculosis co-infection
  
• ​COVID-19 Potentially Thwarted by TB Infection… at Least in Mice
  
• U.S. Tuberculosis Rates Up More Than 9% In 2021
  
• ​Tuberculosis Cases Dropped Sharply During COVID Pandemic
  
• Reported TB cases drop in US amid COVID-19
  
• War In Ukraine Sets Back Tuberculosis Treatment
  
• A Look At The Ins And Outs Of The CDC's Very Own 'Do Not Board' List
  
• Could cancer therapies be used to treat TB?
  
• Global TB Fight Set Back Years by COVID, Health Experts Say
  
• It would take 500 years for TB vaccine development to get as much money as covid-19
  
• TB survivors should have been central to redesigning care policies, not reduced to an afterthought
  
• Opinion: Tuberculosis, an infectious killer that never got its due
  
• ​World Tuberculosis Day 2022: aligning COVID-19 and tuberculosis innovations to save lives and to end tuberculosis
  
• The state of the regional and national TB responses
  
• Public Health Catastrophe Looms in Ukraine, Experts Warn
  
• ‘Test and treat’ is being used to tackle HIV. Why not TB?
  
• Tuberculosis induces premature cellular aging
  
• Tuberculosis “Host-Directed Therapy” Finds Novel Target
  
• Tuberculosis infection protects mice from developing COVID-19
  
• Outcomes of Concomitant Bedaquiline and Delamanid in Patients With Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
  
• Meropenem Plus Clavulanate and Rifampin for Treatment of Drug-Resistant TB
  
• Russia is destroying Ukraine’s healthcare system
  
• CDC: COVID-19 disruptions may have delayed tuberculosis diagnoses
  
• COVID-19 Impacted Tuberculosis in the U.S.
  
• Tuberculosis diagnoses have fallen amid pandemic; CDC says declines may be related to COVID-19
  
• Children Can’t Wait For A TB-Free Future In The Era Of COVID-19
  
• NIH funds new tuberculosis research advancement centers
  
• Finding TB´s “missing millions”, one district at a time
  
• WHO target product profiles for TB preventive treatment
  
• Impact of COVID-19 on the diagnosis and management of lung cancer and TB
  
• COVID-19 effect on TB presentation and outcome
  
• Randomized trial findings suggest an uncertain trail ahead for TB digital adherence technologies
  
• After DOT, the brave new world?
  
• Digital medication adherence technology: towards personalised TB care
  
• 3HP almost doubled the uptake of TB preventive treatment among PLHIV
  
• ​TB is once again a major global health threat
  
• Russia’s invasion of Ukraine poses a threat to the control of drug-resistant TB in Europe and the world
  
• Ukrainians Need Help to Maintain Progress Against TB
  
• Ukraine’s ‘Model’ TB Programme Destroyed by War, as Global TB Response Faces ‘Disastrous’ Funds Shortfall
  
• ‘There is No Safe Place in Ukraine’ 
  
• Ukraine's tuberculosis progress 'stopped in one day'
  
• Polio, TB, HIV: How the war could worsen Ukraine’s health crises
  
• Surge of HIV, tuberculosis and COVID feared amid war in Ukraine
  
• Russia's war with Ukraine is devastating for Ukraine's war on TB
  
• World Tuberculosis Day Re-Energizes After COVID-19 Pandemic
  
• Dr. Fauci warns war in Ukraine could lead to the ‘devastating’ spread of tuberculosis
  
• Omicron linked to rise in croup in babies; TB vaccine improves immune response to coronavirus
  
• Did COVID-19 Hide or Reduce Tuberculosis Cases?
  
• YSPH-led Study Identifies Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Strains Spreading in Moldova
  
• WHO recommends shorter TB treatments for most children
  
• Preparing For TB, Polio, Measles, and COVID-19 Outbreaks
  
• Cancer drugs might be able to target tuberculosis, study finds
  
• ​War in Ukraine could lead to ‘devastating’ tuberculosis problem, warns Anthony Fauci
  
• ​Letter: Bill seeking to end tuberculosis supported   
  
• Possible new method identified to assess severity of TB infection
  
• Like COVID, TB is a pandemic and must be treated as an emergency
  
• Worrying lack of funding for tuberculosis
  
• Good and bad news about new TB vaccines   
  
• WHO calls for urgent BCG alternative
  
• Can we stop COVID-19 from becoming the next tuberculosis?
  
• Fund tackling AIDS, TB, malaria seeks $18 billion to reverse COVID disruptions
  
• CDC recommends 4-month regimen for drug-susceptible TB
  
• Overseas TB Testing, Treatment of US Immigrants Reduces Spread
  
• When a Touch of Gold Was Used to Heal the King’s Evil
  
• Finally Cause for Optimism About TB Vaccine Research, Says Fauci
  
• Fewer Pills Plus Shorter Time: New Way to Control Drug-Resistant TB?
  
• Possible connection between HIV and tuberculosis revealed
  
• The scientific response to TB – the other deadly global health emergency
  
• Time to integrate epidemiological and economic models for TB
  
• Use of a molecular bacterial load assay to distinguish between active TB and post-TB lung disease
  
• Interventions to enhance treatment adherence and retention in care for HIV-TB
  
• Improving enrolment for TB preventive treatment
  
• ‘Phantom Plague’ Review: Tuberculosis Past, and Future
  
• Before COVID, TB was the world's worst pathogen. It's still a 'monster' killer
  
• Opinion: The pandemic crushed treatment for other diseases. But it may give us an edge in the future.
  
• Considerations for simultaneous testing of COVID-19 and tuberculosis in high-burden countries
  
• Epigenetic-mediated immune mechanisms identified in TB
  
• ​TB on campus raises concern from Stamps
  
• Possible new method identified to assess severity of TB infection
  
• Discordant results of tests for tuberculosis reconsidered
  
• Juanita High School students create diagnostic test for tuberculosis
  
• Fungal infections cause more Aids deaths than tuberculosis – here’s what we can do about it
  
• Beyond the Booster Shot
  
• Progress and challenges en route to improved tuberculosis treatment
  
• Updated guidelines for child and adolescent TB
  
• The need for effective drugs for TB prevention: set your goals high, and don´t stop till you get there
  
• Protecting healthcare workers from TB
  
• Why are people still dying from TB in low-burden countries?
  
• Improving outcomes for multidrug-resistant TB treatment
  
• National approaches to TB care in adolescents
  
• A cross-sectional study of risk factors for TB among socially marginalised people
  
• Severe pulmonary TB rescued with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy
  
• Fluoroquinolone preventive therapy for children exposed to MDR-TB
  
• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB infection testing
  
• Decreased notification of TB cases during the COVID-19 pandemic
  
• Impact of COVID-19 on extrapulmonary TB and the benefit of decentralised TB services
  
• Inmate dies at Bexar County jail due to COVID-19 complications, authorities say
  
• Robert Lindsay health: Actor, 72, was 'really frightened' after being 'very ill'
  
• Discordant results of tests for tuberculosis reconsidered – Authors' reply
  
• TB Vaccines and COVID-19
  
• Study: TB Vaccine Linked to Lower Risk of Contracting COVID-19
  
• Now, TB test recommended for COVID-19 patients in case of persisting cough
  
• Inmate at facility in Decatur diagnosed with tuberculosis
  
• Possible tuberculosis exposure at Sycuan Casino: county health officials
  
• Patron at Sycuan Casino May Have Exposed Others To Tuberculosis
  
• San Diego County Investigating Possible Tuberculosis Exposure at Sycuan Casino
  
• Covid-19’s Devastating Effect on Tuberculosis Care — A Path to Recovery
  
• QIAGEN Expands QuantiFERON Portfolio in the Fight Against TB
  
• Latent TB Detection Market: Rise in awareness about diagnosis and treatment of TB to drive the market
  
• TB epidemic ‘could flare in near future’
  
• County Investigating Possible TB Exposure At Sycuan Casino
  
• Bedaquiline-Resistant Tuberculosis Associated with Rv0678 Mutations
  
• Role of the Ferroptosis-Related Gene SOCS1 in Tuberculosis
  
• Underfunded And Deadly Tuberculosis Needs Its Own Bill Gates
  
• Tuberculosis Vaccine Could Assist Future COVID-19 Vaccine Development
  
• UTSA public health graduate on frontlines of tuberculosis control in New York
  
• Computational Models Move Researchers Closer to Tuberculosis Vaccine
  
• #TBT: Corpus Christi's Hilltop hospital housed tuberculosis patients starting in the '40s   
  
• Patients with tuberculosis face social stigma   
  
• National Institutes of Health Funds Tuberculosis Vaccine Research at TTUHSC El Paso   
  
• Researchers Identify a Promising New Target for Tuberculosis Treatment
  
• Team studies how existing BCG vaccination could serve as foundation for new, more effective TB vaccines
  
• TaBriX, University and TB Alliance to develop drug-resistant tuberculosis treatments
  
• 100-Year-Old Vaccine Keeps on Protecting
  
• Bill Gates won't join the space race. He wants to eradicate malaria and tuberculosis instead
  
• I have TB — am I at greater risk of catching Covid-19?
  
• Uncovering the Immune Cells in Play After BCG Vaccination
  
• Common Budgetary Terms Explained
  
• Stop TB Partnership Warns of Increase in Tuberculosis Deaths Among People Living with HIV for the First Time in Over a Decade
  
• Charting changes in a pathogen's genome yields clues about its past and hints about its future
  
• THE JOURNEY OF THE COVID-19 VACCINE
  
• It’s time for action on inequality to end TB and AIDS
  
• Fighting TB: How One Collaboration Is Tackling A Deadly Disease In The Developing World
  
• FDA Approves Wider Access to Automated Blood Test for Latent Tuberculosis
  
• Boosting Accuracy for Tuberculosis Screening in HIV Patients
  
• Improved Tuberculosis Tests and Treatments are Vital to Overcoming Drug Resistance 

​2021

• PH gets over $2.6 million worth of TB detection, prevention tools from US
  

• Stop TB head: TB still the ‘Cinderella’ in Global Fund disease split
  
• Assessing Blame for Deaths of Indian Boarding School Students
  
• Mice infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis are resistant to secondary infection with SARS-CoV-2
  
• Five developments in paediatric tuberculosis
  
• How COVID-19 threatens to undo years of progress in TB control
  
• WILL THE CHANGE IN THE GLOBAL FUND DISEASE SPLIT REDUCE TB DEATHS?
  
• House Comprehensive TB Elimination Act seeks to empower U.S. health officials to tackle tuberculosis
  
• Though life-threatening, tuberculosis not a death sentence – Expert
  
• Talk to focus on subpar treatment of Native women with tuberculosis
  
• Impact Of Covid-19 Pandemic Extends To Tuberculosis And Neglected Tropical Diseases
  
• The COVID pandemic must lead to tuberculosis vaccines
  
• Sen. Menendez, TB aid is desperately needed in the time of COVID-19 | Opinion
  
• Call for action on TB as deaths rise for first time in decade
  
• COVID-19 Pandemic Threatens to Undo Years of Progress in Tuberculosis Control
  
• ​Global tuberculosis progress reversed by COVID-19 pandemic
  
• How COVID-19 threatens to undo years of progress in TB control
  
• Will New Scientific Breakthroughs Spur The #endTB Efforts?
  
• COVID-19 and tuberculosis co-infection in pregnancy - A case series and review
  
• This Partnership Is Saving Millions of Lives Through Tackling AIDS, TB, Malaria & COVID-19. But How?
  
• Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Children and Adolescents
  
• The COVID pandemic must lead to tuberculosis vaccines
  
• VIETNAM LEADS THE WAY WITH SOS STOOL METHOD TO DIAGNOSE TB
  
• Study identifies need to improve patient retention in the National TB Elimination Programme, highlights patients’ trust relationship with private providers
  
• Biomarker for Individualized Therapy Durations in Patients With TB
  
• Promising new JCU tuberculosis research funded
  
• Regular TB screening cost-effective way to prevent spread in vulnerable areas: study
  
• Regular screening for tuberculosis in Inuit communities is cost-effective
  
• Regular TB screening cost-effective way to prevent spread in vulnerable areas: study
  
• Tuberculosis Case Reported at Metropolitan Correctional Center San Diego
  
• US-CDC supports Rivers with integrated HIV, TB, COVID-19 screening   
  
• UTEP Researcher awarded $1.5M NIH Grant; Money will help in battle against Tuberculosis   
  
• Statement from TAG’s TB Project on Today’s WHO Global TB Report
  
• This Partnership Is Saving Millions of Lives Through Tackling AIDS, TB, Malaria & COVID-19. But How?
  
• Opinion: WHO numbers underscore urgent need for stronger leadership and ambitious TB recovery plan
  
• Opinion: Quality Tuberculosis care starts with people
  
• EndTB clinical trial for multidrug-resistant TB completes enrolment
  
• Fingerstick blood test can be a promising TB screening tool, study finds
  
• Largest ever global study of tuberculosis identifies genetic causes of drug resistance
• Simple Breathing Can Transmit TB More Effectively than Cough – New Research Debunks Old Convictions About Transmission   
  
• Double Trouble: The Surprising Connection Between Diabetes and Tuberculosis
  
• New data support shorter regimen for resistant TB
  
• OPINION | Quality Tuberculosis care starts with people
  
• Panganai’s Story of #TBCourage
  
• ‘A global wake-up call’: In shadow of COVID-19, TB deaths rise for first time in 15 years
  
• Global TB deaths are rising — and COVID gets the blame
  
• TB progress ‘unravelling’ due to COVID-19, WHO warns
  
• The Fight Against Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
  
• The COVID pandemic must lead to tuberculosis vaccines
  
• New hope for patients as ‘gruelling’ treatment for drug resistant TB could be cut to six months
  
• Travel history and challenges of screening for latent TB infection in child asylum seekers
  
• Risk of childhood TB from non-adherence to isoniazid chemoprophylaxis
  
• Clinical profile and outcomes of paediatric central nervous system tuberculomas
  
• Building support systems to tackle tuberculosis for the most vulnerable
  
• New shorter treatment regimen found to be safer, more effective at treating drug-resistant TB   
  
• WHO numbers underscore urgent need for stronger leadership and ambitious TB recovery plan   
  
• FiberCel Spine Surgery Bone Putty Recalled for Tuberculosis Contamination   
  
• WHO: Global Tuberculosis Symposium
  
• What is tuberculosis and why are deaths rising?
  
• “Our patients deserve better”: Improving treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis
  
• TB PRACTECAL: MSF clinical trial finds short, effective and safe drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment
  
• Largest ever global study of tuberculosis identifies genetic causes of drug resistance
  
• Coughing may not be the primary driver of TB transmission: new study
  
• STriTuVaD Clinical Trial of RUTI® vaccine for Tuberculosis: First Patient recruited at AIIMS, India
  
• Tuberculosis, Like Covid, Spreads by Breathing, Scientists Report
  
• Opinion: Tuberculosis deaths are rising again — and covid is to blame
  
• Why Public Health Faces a Crisis Across the U.S.
  
• Deaths from tuberculosis rose in 2020, for the first time in a decade, the W.H.O. says.
  
• Launch of the IJTLD Clinical Standards for Lung Health
  
• Tuberculosis case confirmed in Concord School District
  
• Pandemic Disruptions Blamed for First Increase in Estimated Tuberculosis Deaths in More Than a Decade
  
• Notes from the Director
  
• Statement from TAG’s TB Project on Today’s WHO Global TB Report
  
• Russell lab wins grant to develop new tuberculosis drugs
  
• TB Alliance Expands Board of Directors
  
• Remembering Herndon's History: TB And A Letter To Charles Burton
  
• Characteristics of genitourinary tuberculosis in Sri Lanka: A retrospective cohort study
  
• BCG: the history and modern-day uses of the tuberculosis vaccine
  
• Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis Diagnostics and Laboratory Strengthening
  
• Key Highlights: Official UN General Assembly Side Event: Progress and Multisectoral Action Towards Achieving Global Targets to End TB
  
• TB civil society, parliamentarians, and TB survivors call for accountability and community led monitoring to ensure access to TB treatment and care for all
  
• International Support for Compulsory License to Address Access Barriers to Life-saving Tuberculosis Medicines, Bedaquiline and Delamanid
  
• Postoperative Complications of Surgery for Tuberculosis Destroyed Lung
  
• COVID pandemic demonstrates why U.S. should fund more tuberculosis prevention work
  
• Co-Infection with 4 Species of Mycobacteria Identified by Using Next-Generation Sequencing
  
• Predicted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global tuberculosis deaths in 2020
  
• Tuberculosis outbreaks declared in northern First Nations communities
  
• DOST study to halt drug-resistant TB reports 70% to 80% success rate  
• Diabetes-associated Susceptibility to Tuberculosis: Contribution of Hyperglycemia vs. Dyslipidemia
  
• ​COVID-19 Measures Are Soft Compared With Tuberculosis Rules
  
• Chief Medical Officer Was Silenced in Canada's Residential Schools
  
• Identification of novel chemical scaffolds that inhibit the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in macrophages
  
• Tuberculosis Elimination Loses to COVID-19 Pandemic​
  
• 2021 may be worse for tuberculosis
  
• COVID-19 combined with funding shortfalls are devastating efforts to end Tuberculosis (TB) by 2030- New data shows
  
• Biochemists detail protein vital to tuberculosis, antibiotic resistance
  
• Report: COVID-19, lack of funding are hampering TB response
  
• Audit hits Donovan state prison for shoddy tuberculosis care, loose injectable handling
  
• UN has pledged support to end tuberculosis in Nigeria-Kalu, Reps Spokesman
  
• World-first study links long-term disabilities and TB
  
• The Pandemic Has Set Back the Fight Against H.I.V., TB and Malaria
  
• Global Progress Against HIV, TB, Malaria Faltered During Pandemic
  
• COVID-19 disruption causing many deaths from TB, AIDS in poorest countries, fund says
  
• ​COVID-19 Causes Major Interruption in Global HIV Progress
  
• Pandemic reverses TB testing gains, Bicol‌ and ‌Apayao‌ ‌are exceptions  
  
• Her husband died in a tuberculosis outbreak. She wants more testing on human tissue products.
  
• TB Alliance, Lupin partner for new anti-tuberculosis drug
  
• How Manila is using its COVID-19 response to find TB patients
  
• Severe COVID can awaken ‘dormant TB,’ says doctor and tuberculosis researcher
  
• Only 2% TB patients infected with Covid
  
• MSF: Lifesaving TB (Tubercolosis) Medicines Still Out Of Reach For Children In High-Burden Countries
  
• Countryside continues to monitor TB cases in its five counties
  
• Medical alliance works to bring down cost of TB tests
  
• Fighting tuberculosis with medication, mental health and social support
  
• Luwero sees increase in TB treatment success rate
  
• Vitamin D deficiency does not increase TB risk in young children
  
• Study: Long-term disabilities linked to TB
  
• Tuberculosis Diagnosed In 151 Covid-Recovered Individuals In Karnataka
  
• Pandemic reverses TB testing gains, Bicol‌ and ‌Apayao‌ ‌are exceptions  
  
• International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: the role of clinical studies in testing interventions
  
• Renovation of former tuberculosis facility unearths 130 years of Colorado history
  
• Respiratory syncytial virus, tuberculosis, liver abscess infections surge as post-COVID symptoms among children
  
• COVID-19 Has Devastated HIV and TB Services According to New Global Fund Report
  
• TB Alliance and Lupin announce commercial partnership for new therapy for highly drug-resistant TB
  
• WHO framework strengthens accountability across sectors for ending TB by 2030
  
• Mozambique: Over 3,000 Patients Under New TB Combined Therapy
  
• Covid Coughs Up New Problem: A Greater Vulnerability To TB
  
• SHAH: Pandemic policies are not new
  
• Comparison of 3 Preventive Tuberculosis Therapies in Patients With HIV Infection
  
• TB incidence in US higher among older adults but declining rapidly within birth cohorts
  

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