The TB community - clearly driven by TB/HIV activism - is now calling for a global effort to eliminate TB: "We are demanding that you all in this room have vision, that you all in this room decide that we are not going to control TB, but we are going to eliminate TB." (Colleen Daniels, TAG)

TB is linked with a deadly silicosis epidemic hidden for decades in rural South Africa. Gold mining firms must make amends, says Jaine Roberts.

How do you reach the three million people who become ill with tuberculosis every year, but go undetected, suffering and dying needlessly, while infecting others? The answer is simple: take a risk. TB REACH, a program of the Stop TB Partnership, has embraced the “inherent risk of innovation” to find new, more effective approaches to TB case detection, which are tailored uniquely to reach different vulnerable populations.

Bipartisan, bicameral legislation extends U.S. Leadership Act, confirming ongoing commitments to PEPFAR and the Global Fund as well as to bilateral responses to AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

CAPE TOWN – The much-anticipated process of public submissions into the draft South Africa National Intellectual Property Policy has come to a close. The country’s trade minister says the office is busy collating the 100 documents submitted by interested stakeholders and plans to submit a formal policy to cabinet for approval in the first quarter of next year.

A slideshow from the Mail & Guardian asks if we are paying enough attention to TB:

Janssen must run a Phase III trial of bedaquiline urgently; More investment in TB drugs and diagnostics urgently needed.

The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) is the official publication of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union).

After wrong dosage was discovered in Sandoz's tuberculosis drug 4D, packs of its stronger variant have three pills instead of the stated four.

The days Rafael Hasta coughs up blood, his son Samuel gives him mashed papaya with boiled rice and red tea. Hasta refuses to eat anything else.