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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...
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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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...
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...
Fundação Aurum partners with Mozambican government to help end TB

Mozambique has shown its commitment to ending TB, with Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, attending the launch of the rollout of a new TB prevention therapy (TPT) recently. The Aurum Instit...
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

A randomized trial found that treatment completion was higher among HIV-positive persons who were assigned a shorter course of rifapentine-isoniazid therapy to prevent tuberculosis disease compared to...
Call to action for an invigorated drive to scale up TB prevention

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Opt4TPT South Africa study team recruits and enrols participants

On 16 September 2021, the Opt4TPT study team in South Africa implemented by The Aurum Institute, started enrolling patients visiting the Chiawelo Community Health Centre (CHC) for antiretroviral the...
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 ...
Concern as TB Preventative Treatment Declines

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Ascent South Africa launches in Cape Town

The Adherence Support Coalition to End TB (ASCENT) project is collaborating with City Health, and TB HIV Care funded by the Global Fund to implement Digital Adherence Technologies (DATs), to sup...
Ascent South Africa initiates TB community outreach activities

ASCENT South Africa recently held a campaign in the busy Tshwane’s inner city “Marabastad”, aimed at tuberculosis (TB) case finding and community education on the use of digital adherence techn...
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, ...
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...
The Aurum Institute World TB Day Press Release

JOHANESBURG (24 MARCH 2022) Today, on World Tuberculosis Day, The Aurum Institute acknowledges the progress made and the challenges that lie ahead in efforts to end tuberculosis (TB). While COVID-19 h...
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...

5th Global Forum on TB Vaccines - 20 February 2018

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

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

Watch: IMPAACT4TB Project 3HP rollout

Aurum launches TB Preventative Treatment rollout in Ghana

Fundação Aurum partners with Mozambican government to help end TB

Improving availability of patient-friendly tuberculosis preventive therapy

Shorter weekly course of rifapentine-isoniazid associated with much higher treatment completion rates compared to longer daily course

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

Opt4TPT South Africa study team recruits and enrols participants

IMPAACT4TB Project statement responding to the WHO Global TB Report 2021

Concern as TB Preventative Treatment Declines

Ascent South Africa launches in Cape Town

Ascent South Africa initiates TB community outreach activities

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

Aurum at 21st ICASA

The Aurum Institute World TB Day Press Release

Aurum at Forum on Microbial Threats workshop

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