Tuberculosis - The Aurum Institute

Dr Regina Osih on KTN News Kenya: New TB therapy rollout: How Covid-19 pandemic affected TB treatment | Bottomline Africa

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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...
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...
A new TB preventive therapy aims to increase patient compliance

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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...
IMPAACT4TB Project statement responding to the WHO Global TB Report 2021

IMPAACT4TB Welcomes Gains in TB Prevention Among People Living With HIV, But Calls for Urgent Action to Address TB Prevention Deficits Among Children and Household Contacts of People Affected by TB ...
Statement on The Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis: Building a TB-Free World

March 20, 2019—Ahead of World TB Day, we welcome the release today of the report from Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis, which provides a much-needed framework for delivering on the political commit...
World Health Organization information on Tuberculosis and COVID-19

WHO: Considerations for tuberculosis (TB) care services. As the world comes together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to ensure that essential services and operations for dealing wi...
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...
Seizing the Moment to Eliminate TB in South Africa

The Aurum Institute was honored to host the South African launch of the Lancet Commission Report on Tuberculosis: Building a TB-Free World on behalf of the National Department of Health on Tuesday, ...
TB Prevention in People With HIV: How Short Can We Go?

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FIND and Unitaid invest US$ 50 million to speed lifesaving testing and treatment solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic’s frontlines

Geneva, 9 November 2021 – FIND, Unitaid, and partners are joining forces to quickly deliver new end-to-end strategies that will accelerate and enhance improved access to diagnostics and treatment, ...
Football tournament attracts over 1000 people to screen for TB and HIV

Over 1000 people in the Ablekuma Central constituency in the Greater Accra region have been screened for Tuberculosis (TB) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and other related diseases, over the w...
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 ...
Q&A: Locally led leadership key to global health solutions

This article was originally published in Devex on 15 November 2021 It’s time for low-income countries on the African continent and elsewhere to stand up and take on leadership in finding globa...
Aurum at 21st ICASA

Aurum was at the 21st International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in Africa (ICASA). This year themed; The race to 2030 – Evidence. Scale Up. Accelerate, the conferen...
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...
We Know How To Conquer Tuberculosis

Op-ed in The NY Times in line with a letter sent in by Aurum Institute's Professor Gavin Churchyard: In 1962, the renowned epidemiologist George Comstock had a realization that would help rid modern ...
Aurum at Forum on Microbial Threats workshop

Aurum Group CEO Prof Gavin Churchyard presented at the Forum on Microbial Threats workshop recently. The Forum which is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, brought...
Shorter Regimen for Preventing TB Found to Have Lasting Protective Effect in People Living with HIV

New study finds there is no need to repeat short-course TB preventive therapy after one year and finds that shorter regimen nearly doubles treatment completion rate. The WHIP3TB finds a single course ...