tuberculosis

India tests vaccine against tuberculosis in adults with HIV

Published on: March 26, 2024
00:45

New Delhi, Mar 26 (Prensa Latina) India began clinical trials of a vaccine against tuberculosis by the Spanish biopharmaceutical company Biofabri in adults with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), it was reported here.

WHO launches new ScreenTB to detect and prevent Tuberculosis

Published on: October 16, 2023
16:57

Geneva, Oct 16 (Prensa Latina) WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Program is pleased to announce the update and release of ScreenTB (screentb.org) - a web-based tool designed to assist countries in prioritizing risk groups for screening, as well as in developing screening and prevention approaches tailored to country contexts.

UN analyzes global strategy to end tuberculosis

Published on: September 22, 2023
07:44

United Nations, Sep 21 (Prensa Latina) Global efforts to end tuberculosis will bring together representatives from over a hundred countries at the UN headquarters, in the second High Level Meeting on the fight against the epidemic.

PAHO urges stepped-up efforts against TB in the Americas

Published on: March 24, 2023
18:50

Washington, Mar 24 (Prensa Latina) The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Friday called on Latin American nations to urgently expand access to prevention, detection and treatment services to speed up progress towards curbing tuberculosis (TB), one of the world´s mostly deadly infectious diseases.

UK announces another aid to Global Fund to help fight diseases

Published on: November 14, 2022
11:03

London, Nov 14 (Prensa Latina) The United Kingdom will give another one billion pounds sterling (more than 1.1 billion dollars) to the Global Fund to help fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria globally, the British Foreign Office announced on Monday.

Int’l Space station experiment could help fight AIDS

Published on: June 24, 2022
10:11

Moscow, Jun 24 (Prensa Latina) Russia's Space Agency, Roscosmos, on Friday reported that the results of the Kristallizator (Crystallizer) experiment, which is being carried out on the International Space Station (ISS), could help create new drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis and AIDS.

Covid-19 affects tuberculosis care in India

Published on: March 9, 2022
10:04

New Delhi, Mar 9 (Prensa Latina) Tuberculosis disease care in India is under pressure due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, it was disclosed today.

Covid-19 reverses years of world progress against tuberculosis

Published on: October 14, 2021
16:16

Geneva, Oct 14 (Prensa Latina) Covid-19 reversed years of global progress in the fight against tuberculosis and, for the first time in more than a decade, the deaths from the latter increased, an official document revealed on Thursday.

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