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Yogan Pillay and Gaurang Tanna | Commit, invest, deliver: What should SA do to end TB?

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Comment, Focus, Healthcare system, InFocus, Latest, Spotlight, TB

The TB Sustainable Development Goals of reducing incidence and deaths from TB are achievable, if we all work together. We must double down on this ambition and be even bolder in our investments, write Yogan Pillay and Gaurang Tanna.

Yogan Pillay and Gaurang Tanna | Commit, invest, deliver: What should SA do to end TB?

Massive $200 million TB research programme derailed by US funding cuts

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Focus, Healthcare system, InFocus, Latest, Spotlight, TB, TB

Just over a month after US President Donald Trump implemented a 90-day freeze of all foreign assistance, the future looks very uncertain for tuberculosis research. Among others, a large TB research programme that was worth up to $200 million was axed last week. Elri Voigt reports.