Good and bad news about new TB vaccines

The 6th Global Forum on TB Vaccines was held virtually on 22-25 February 2022. Professor Mark Hatherill, director of the South African TB Vaccine Initiative, addressed the Forum in a session on New Horizons for TB vaccines, warning that the TB vaccine pipeline is depleted with little progress of candidate vaccines through the pipeline in the last few years, creating a serious problem for the next decade of vaccine development.