Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals
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The suitcase-sized kit helping to rid the Philippines of one of history’s great killers
March 2024
A common condition
Calls for a global fund to tackle air pollution, killer of 7m a year
Health campaigners are voicing concerns that the issue is being neglected – despite the devastating death toll around the world
February 2024
Is the 100-year old TB vaccine a new weapon against Alzheimer’s?
Studies suggest the BCG jab discovered a century ago could provide a cheap and effective way of boosting the immune system to protect people from developing the condition
September 2023
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South Africa launches ‘unprecedented’ investigation of Johnson & Johnson over TB drug prices
Competition watchdog probes claims of profiteering by US drugmaker in country where tuberculosis is biggest killer
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Better nutrition can cut risk of TB deaths by 60%, Indian study finds
Large-scale field trials that provided healthy food packages to sufferers and their families showed radical reductions in fatalities
Tuberculosis outbreak leads to 13 confirmed infections in remote South Australian communities
State government says one person has died and 11 infections remain active after outbreak emerged in March
August 2023
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Cost of tuberculosis treatment halved in deal to permit generic versions
Johnson & Johnson’s year-long deal on life-saving drug bedaquiline is seen as critical move in campaign against disease
July 2023
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Cheaper TB drugs for millions after global deal on patent rights agreed
Johnson & Johnson allows generic bedaquiline in 44 countries – but concerns remain about ‘stopgap’ solution
June 2023
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‘Gamechanging’ TB vaccine within reach after $500m pledge to run final trials
Joint deal between Gates Foundation and Wellcome to develop M72 jab could save 8.5 million lives and prevent 76 million cases
March 2023
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Victory over big pharma opens door to cheaper tuberculosis drugs
India’s patent office turns down bedaquiline extension to Johnson & Johnson, clearing the way for generic versions
February 2023
Other lives
Luis Cuevas obituary
Pious, prolonged or painless: the remarkable reconception of what it means to die well
November 2022
Other lives
Charlotte Jones obituary
UK criticised for ‘disastrous decision’ to cut health aid pledge by almost a third
October 2022
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Global tuberculosis cases increase for the first time in 20 years
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Pledge aid or deprive Commonwealth’s poorest in diseases fight, UK warned
September 2022
The Global Fund has saved 50m lives. So why has the UK refused to make a pledge?
Sarah Champion
Liz Truss’s first UN general assembly was a chance to commit to fighting global disease – millions of lives hang in the balance
August 2022
‘Patients are falling through the cracks’: drug costs hinder India’s response to TB
The country has the world’s largest number of multi-drug-resistant cases – but doctors and activists warn patients are going undiagnosed and untreated
May 2022
Canadian Arctic tuberculosis outbreak lays bare overcrowded living conditions
Officials in Nunavut say there are 31 cases of active tuberculosis in the hamlet of Pangnirtung, a community of 1,500
