Advancements in research might soon offer a blood test to spot unnoticed #TB carriers, aiming to curb the disease that, according to #WHO, annually kills more than a million. #TBResearch #HealthInnovation https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/health/2024/04/07/these-proteins-could-help-identify-people-who-unknowingly-spread-tuberculosis

Promising study in South Africa boosts search for better #tuberculosis treatments with experimental drug #Quabodepistat showing encouraging results. #HealthInnovation #TBResearch https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-03-11-new-tb-drug-shows-promise-but-experimental-vaccine-disappoints/

Professor Valerie Mizrahi, a world-leading #tuberculosis researcher and director of the Institute of #infectiousdiseases and Molecular Medicine at #uct is retiring at the end of the year. Biénne Huisman sat down with #Mizrahi to talk about her journey in #TBresearch, passing the baton to a new generation of researchers, and how she helped build a research ecosystem that brings together specialists across the basic, clinical, and public health sciences.

https://www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2023/09/20/interview-the-only-good-tb-bacillus-is-a-dead-one-says-ucts-prof-valerie-mizrahi/

READ how Marcus Low contrasts commitments made at the previous #unitednations High-Level Meeting on #tuberculosis #TB with recent data on funding for #TBresearch. He asks what this tells us about the state of the global response to an age-old killer. The next High-Level Meeting on TB is on 22 Sept.
https://www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2023/09/07/opinion-a-un-meeting-on-tb-is-at-best-a-means-to-more-important-ends/