May 18

• Country Gets $1.6 Billion From Global Fund

  New Vision

  The global fight against Aids, Tuberculosis (TB) and malaria has received a major boost of $1.6b in investment funds to projects aimed at saving lives for the period 2012 -14. Read more »

May 17

• Country Facing BCG Vaccine Shortage

  Capital FM

  The government has confirmed a severe shortage of the BCG vaccine that protects children against tuberculosis. Read more »

May 15

• GBCHealth Conference Introduces MDG Health Alliance [press release]

  GBCHealth

  The MDG Health Alliance, an innovative new private sector organization created and led by eminent business leaders to tackle urgent global health problems, was introduced today in... Read more »

May 14

• Board of Global Fund Speeds Up Implementation of Its Strategy [press release]

  Global Fund

  The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria concluded its 26th Meeting today with broad agreement to direct more than $1.6 billion in available funding... Read more »

• New Technology to Be Used in TB Prevalence Survey

  New Times

  A Digital Chest X-ray machine, which communicates directly with the central level from anywhere in the country, will be used for the TB Prevalence survey. Read more »

May 10

• Global Fund Has More Money

  Health-e

  The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) estimates that more than U.S. $1.6-billion in additional funding will be available in the next two years. Read more »

• Global Fund Forecasts $1.6 Billion in Available Funds for 2012-2014 [press release]

  Global Fund

  A new financial forecast by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria estimates that more than $1.6 billion in additional funding will be available in the 2012-14... Read more »

• Citizens, WHO Team to Fight TB

  Daily Trust

  The World Health Organisation has picked some members of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria to be part of its team to fight the tuberculosis scourge. Chairman of the... Read more »

May 9

• Gates Foundation Announces Over 100 new Grants [press release]

  Gates Foundation

  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, through its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, today announced over 100 new grants of US$100,000 each to support innovative global... Read more »

• USAID Launches U.S.$224 Million HIV/Aids, TB Service Scheme

  Vanguard

  As part of measures to reduce the HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis prevalence rate in Nigeria, the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, yesterday, launched a... Read more »

May 7

• Trade Talks Threaten Access to Aids Drugs

  allAfrica.com

  Humanitarian aid has come a long way in the last 40 years, says the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Dr. Unni Karunakara, but he warns that... Read more »

• Raising 'Uncomfortable Questions' in a Changing World [interview]

  allAfrica.com

  Part 2 of a conversation with the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières. Read more »

• Great Gains Against Killer Diseases At Risk [interview]

  allAfrica.com

  Part 1 of a conversation with the international president of Mèdecins Sans Frontières. Read more »

May 3

• World TB Day Observed in NBR

  Daily Observer

  The Regional Health Team in the North Bank Region (NBR) east recently observed World Tuberculosis Day at Jerekaw Wollof Village in the Illiasa Constituency. The theme for this... Read more »

April 30

• Health Service System Accessible to Public - Ministry

  ENA

  Health service system is accessible to the public in all parts of the country, the Ministry of Health said. Read more »

April 27

• Global Fund to Release U.S. $236 Million

  The Herald

  THE Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has agreed to release US$236 million for Zimbabwe's health sector to combat the three diseases. Read more »

April 25

• New Chief Trims Global Aids, TB, Malaria Fund

  Guardian Network

  It's been only seven weeks since banker Gabriel Jaramillo took over as general manager of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, but it is already clear the... Read more »

• Tuberculosis On the Rise - Vice President

  ANGOP

  The Angolan vice president, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, said Wednesday in Luanda that tuberculosis is recording a rising trend in the country, where 300 of every 100,000... Read more »

• Efforts Towards TB Control Effective - Health Ministry

  Shabait

  The Ministry of Health stated that endeavors towards TB control have registered positive outcome and that morbidity as well as mortality rate connected with the disease is in its... Read more »

April 24

• Rich Mining Areas Lead Tuberculosis Rates

  ANGOP

  Angola's diamond producing eastern provinces of Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul lead the tuberculosis growth rate. Read more »

• Half of the Countries With Global Fund-Supported TB Programmes Deliver Services in Prisons, but Scope Is Limited [analysis]

  GFO

  According to a study published in March 2012, in the 105 countries where the Global Fund financed TB programmes, these programmes delivered services within prisons in 53 of the... Read more »