KENYA – The National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory housed at the Kenyatta National Hospital is set for a major overhaul to get it to World Health Organization (WHO) standards as well…
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Germany’s BMBF commits US$10.3M to assist complete clinical trials for TB vaccine candidate: IAVI
AFRICA—The German government has committed to contribute US$10.3 million to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) to support the late-stage development of promising tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate, MTBVAC currently in…
Read MoreKenya’s Turkana County adopt use of technology for TB diagnosis and treatment
KENYA – Turkana County government, in the northern part of Kenya , with support from development partners has adopted an ultra-portable digital chest X-ray machine for the diagnosis and treatment…
Read MoreKenya pledges US$10M to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
KENYA – The Government of Kenya has pledged US$ 10 Million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at the Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference in an…
Read MoreAU, WHO make an urgent call to action to eliminate childhood tuberculosis in Africa
TOGO – The African Union and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for immediate and comprehensive measures to end the significant toll of tuberculosis among children in Africa, WHO…
Read MoreNigeria launches simultaneous testing of COVID-19 and tuberculosis
NIGERIA – The Kaduna State Government in Nigeria has teamed up with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners to initiate, plan and conduct a two weeks integrated mass…
Read MoreMolbio Diagnostics releases Truenat RT-PCR Test for HIV
INDIA- Molbio Diagnostics has launched a novel test for the differential diagnosis of HIV 1 and HIV 2 with viral loads within 60 minutes. The company has claimed that the…
Read MoreUCSF becomes part of US$200 million international consortium for Tuberculosis
USA – Researchers from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have joined a US$200 million international consortium who are working on control methods to lessen the suffering caused by…
Read MoreNew review on tuberculosis preventive treatment in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE – Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) has partnered with the World Health Organization (WHO) to conduct an external review of programmatic management of Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy…
Read MoreKenya’s new advanced technologies shows promise against tuberculosis
KENYA – The Centre for Health Solutions-Kenya (CHS), the Ministry of Health National TB Program, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Stop TB Partnership have teamed up…
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