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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. ...
5th Global Forum on TB Vaccines - 20 February 2018

Ms Karin Turner, Programme Director for Aurum’s International Programme, UNITAID IMPAACT4TB Project, has been invited to present at the Grant Implementers Forum in Geneva from 28 February to 1 March...
IMPAACT4TB Website Launch & Newsletter

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...
Statement on UN High-Level Meeting on TB

When it comes to preventing TB, we can and must do better. Statement by Gavin Churchyard, CEO of Aurum Institute: We’ve known how to prevent and treat TB for over 70 years. Yet, in 2017 an estimate...
IMPAACT4TB at The Hague

The IMPAACT4TB partners meeting will be held on Oct 18-20th and will be hosted by KNCV, one of the 5 partners under the IMPAACT4TB project, at their offices in the Hague, The Netherlands. Our team me...
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 ...
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...
Pricing Agreement Makes TB Prevention Affordable for High-Burden, Low, Lower-Middle and Upper-Middle Income Countries

Aurum Institute on behalf of the IMPAACT4TB project, congratulates Unitaid, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Sanofi for having reached a volume-based agreement, securing a s...
TB prevention must be a priority during COVID-19

Members in Action highlights the many areas of work that our members are championing to ensure a better future in lung health. From our Regions, Scientific Sections and member working groups, to the ...
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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Generating Evidence: An update in the IMPAACT4TB project

A critical pillar of the IMPAACT4TB project is the ongoing generation of evidence to ensure that decisions about the use of short-course preventive therapies – including 3HP – are based on the l...
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...
A new TB preventive therapy aims to increase patient compliance

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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...
PhD Opportunity

The International Division and Implementation Research Division at the Aurum Institute, the TB Centre and Johns Hopkins University, CHAI, Zimbabwe and KNCV Ethiopia are offering a PhD bursary to suppo...
New study: Optimising the delivery for tuberculosis preventive treatment

The Aurum Institute is implementing a new study to assess the delivery of TB preventive treatment (TPT) in three countries, to generate critical knowledge to improve TPT uptake, implementation and ou...
After setbacks, rollout of new TB prevention pills to start in six districts

This article was originally written by Tiyese Jeranji for Spotlight on 14th April 2021. After various delays and setbacks, new, less toxic, short-course tuberculosis (TB) prevention therapy is fi...

It's time to End TB

5th Global Forum on TB Vaccines - 20 February 2018

IMPAACT4TB Website Launch & Newsletter

Statement on UN High-Level Meeting on TB

IMPAACT4TB at The Hague

New, shorter treatment to prevent TB to be rolled out in five high-burden TB countries

New, shorter treatment to prevent TB to be rolled out in five high-burden TB countries

Pricing Agreement Makes TB Prevention Affordable for High-Burden, Low, Lower-Middle and Upper-Middle Income Countries

TB prevention must be a priority during COVID-19

51st Union World Conference on Lung Health

Prevention has to be a priority for all diseases, not just the pandemic of the moment

Generating Evidence: An update in the IMPAACT4TB project

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

A new TB preventive therapy aims to increase patient compliance

World TB Day- TB treatments are notoriously hard to stick to: shorter regimens offer a breakthrough

Watch: IMPAACT4TB Project 3HP rollout

PhD Opportunity

New study: Optimising the delivery for tuberculosis preventive treatment

After setbacks, rollout of new TB prevention pills to start in six districts

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