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Aurum Ghana - TB Reach Application Selected For Funding

Congratulations to the Aurum Ghana team! The "TB REACH Wave 6" application, 1109: Engaging private health providers & National Health Insurance to scale up active TB case finding among vulnerable ...
Launch of Ghana Parliamentary Caucus

The Caucus was launched on Thursday 2nd August 2018 by a collaboration between Afro Global Alliance, Aurum Ghana and Ghana TB Voice Network. It was launched by the First Deputy Speaker of the Parliam...
Aurum Institute Ghana supports TB case finding intervention

The Aurum Institute, on Monday 18 February, presented six motorbikes to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and its implementing partners, the Afro Global Alliance and Ghana TB Voice Network. The presenta...
13 November- marks the second year of Aurum Ghana’s existence

During these two years the Aurum Ghana team has contributed to our overall success. We thank you all for your enthusiasm, dedication and diligence. Congratulations ...
It's time to End TB

In recognition of World TB Day and for the rest of TB Month, Aurum is highlighting some of its staff working to End TB. ...
New, shorter treatment to prevent TB to be rolled out in five high-burden TB countries

Three-month regimen expected to prevent TB in those at highest risk of developing the disease, including people living with HIV and children under the age of five Today, the Aurum Institute and its p...
New, shorter treatment to prevent TB to be rolled out in five high-burden TB countries

Three-month regimen expected to prevent TB in those at highest risk of developing the disease, including people living with HIV and children under the age of five. 24 March 2020 (Johannesburg, South ...
Aurum staff appointed to Vanderbilt University

The Aurum Institute is proud to announce that 10 senior staff members have been appointed in various adjunct positions at the Department of Medicine in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. T...
Aurum welcomes new board members

The Aurum Institute welcomes three new members to its Board of Directors, each bringing a wealth of expertise. Dr Jerry Gule, Yaw Peprah and Paula Fray recently joined the Aurum Board as non-executi...
51st Union World Conference on Lung Health

The Aurum Institute is at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health. If you are attending the virtual conference, please join us at the sessions listed below. MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND INFORMA...
Prevention has to be a priority for all diseases, not just the pandemic of the moment

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New patient-friendly tuberculosis preventive therapy to be rolled out in five high-burden TB countries at affordable price

• Fixed-dose combination treatments reduce the pill burden from nine to three pills a week for adults and prevent TB in those at highest risk of developing the disease • Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, M...
World TB Day- TB treatments are notoriously hard to stick to: shorter regimens offer a breakthrough

This article by Prof Violet Chihota, was originally published in The Conversation Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of illness and death around the world. In 2019, 10 million people fell ill with...
Watch: IMPAACT4TB Project 3HP rollout

We have carried Tuberculosis (TB) for far too long, we need to move away from a narrow focus on treatment in order to end TB. Despite TB being both a curable and treatable disease, millions of people...
Aurum launches TB Preventative Treatment rollout in Ghana

Aurum Institute Ghana, recently launched the rollout of 3HP, a new, less toxic, short-course tuberculosis (TB) prevention therapy (TPT). This is part of the IMPAACT4TB project, implemented by a cons...
Improving availability of patient-friendly tuberculosis preventive therapy

Global partners working to tackle the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic have announced the latest in a package of measures to increase supply security and availability of a short-course TB preventive therapy...
Shorter weekly course of rifapentine-isoniazid associated with much higher treatment completion rates compared to longer daily course

Abstract: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-7577 A randomized trial found that treatment completion was higher among HIV-positive persons who were assigned a shorter course of rifa...
TB Prevention in People With HIV: How Short Can We Go?

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Call to action for an invigorated drive to scale up TB prevention

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Aurum's Kathy Mngadi on Metro FM's The Kings Suite

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