The Global Fund to fight HIV, TB and Malaria says because of the country's serious mismanagement of funds it has no option but to decrease funding. Read more »
In the wake of a major study showing malaria deaths are twice what everybody thought comes a WHO study showing the highest levels of drug-resistant TB yet. Read more »
An increase in the number of public-health campaigns has seen a significant drop in the country's tuberculosis cases. Read more »
Rats are being trained to sniff out and detect landmines and TB because of their keen sense of smell. Read more »
Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease which spreads through the air. Most people who get infected never develop the disease. But with compromised immunity, especially in ... Read more »
For the first time in a decade, Kenya has registered a decline in the number of people suffering from tuberculosis on an annual basis. The World Health Organisation has ... Read more »
Governments have been urged to step up their commitment and contributions to meet the goal of diagnosing and treating tuberculosis as the world marks TB Day. Read more »
Countries with high levels of HIV and limited access to treatment are sitting on a drug-resistant tuberculosis time bomb, which in some instances may have already exploded. Read more »
Nongovernmental organisations have been spearheading a project aimed at helping to increase access to essential medicines by low income and disadvantaged people in Zambia. Read more »
The Global Fund Observer, an independent watchdog, reports and comments on recent findings of fraud in the use of grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and ... Read more »
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