10 June, 2014 - Geneva - GDF supplier Jacobus can now offer PASER that has been permitted storage below +25°C with a shelf life of 24 months. Based on recently submitted stability data - information proving the stability of the product under room temperature conditions - it was accepted by GDF/GFATM.

6, June 2014 – Geneva – The Stop TB Partnership Global Drug Facility (GDF) has achieved a near 60% reduction in the price of Rifabutin, by including a new supplier into its product catalogue.

The theme for this year will focus on innovators working with TB communities to reach the three million people who are missed every year.

27 May 2014 - Geneva, Switzerland - The Stop TB Partnership Challenge Facility for Civil Society will fund 22 civil society organizations across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America through its 6th round of grants. The mission of the Challenge Facility is to support community-based organizations engaged in Global Fund work and activities with key affected populations to empower them to become part of the solution in the fight against TB.

27, May 2014 - Geneva, Switzerland - The 67th World Health Assembly (WHA) took place in Geneva from 19-25th May, bringing together government delegations at the World Health Organization’s annual meeting. The WHA is the organization’s highest decision-making authority.

23 May 2014 - Otsuka and the WHO’s Global Laboratory Initiative (GLI) working group of the Stop TB Partnership launched a new Mycobacteriology Laboratory Manual at the GLI Annual Meeting on April 30th.

23 May 2014 - Geneva, Switzerland - The Stop TB Partnership and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria renewed their joint commitment to countries and TB communities this week through the recently signed agreement on technical assistance between WHO and the Global Fund this week.

The Stop TB Partnership is going to develop the Global Plan to Stop TB 2016 – 2020, following up on the Global Plan 2006 – 2015.

07 April 2014 - Geneva - Two decades on and the stories are coming out to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide; a conflict that claimed nearly a million lives and displaced another two million. It was an almost unimaginable tragedy in which the ethnic conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis exploded across the Great Lakes Region of Africa, also affecting DR Congo, Burundi and Uganda as well.

02 April 2014 - Abuja/Geneva - African Union finance ministers came together last week to discuss ways to push industrialisation in the continent, but failed to underscore the need for increased investments in health to address challenges such as tuberculosis.