Analysis: SA close to meeting TB research funding targets, but most countries falling short

Posted in: Latest, TB, TB

South Africa is one of only six countries to ever meet their “fair share target” for funding tuberculosis (TB) research, according to a new report. In absolute terms however, South Africa’s contribution is small change compared to investments into TB research made by the top two contributors, the United States government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Catherine Tomlinson unpacks what the report tells us about investment in TB research in South Africa.

Analysis: SA close to meeting TB research funding targets, but most countries falling short

Opinion: A UN meeting on TB is at best a means to more important ends

Posted in: Healthcare system, Latest, TB, TB

On September 22 ministers, heads of state, and other officials from around the world will gather in New York for the second United Nations High-Level Meeting on TB. Yet, a few months ago it was not the governments these officials represent, but two philanthropies that stepped in to ensure arguably the most important TB trial of the decade has the funding needed to proceed. Marcus Low contrasts commitments made at the previous UN High-Level Meeting on TB with recent data on funding for TB research and asks what this tells us about the state of the global response to an age-old killer.

Opinion: A UN meeting on TB is at best a means to more important ends

Good and bad news about new TB vaccines

Posted in: Edition 10: Drug-resistant TB, Edition 7: TB, Healthcare system, Latest, TB, TB

While there are nine experimental tuberculosis (TB) vaccines in advanced trials, the vaccine pipeline beyond those nine prospects is relatively depleted. Adele Baleta reports on this and much more from the virtual Global TB Vaccine Forum held last week.

63 000 TB deaths in SA in 2018

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A total of 63 000 people died of tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa in 2018, according to new figures released by the World Health Organization on Thursday.

Which countries invest most in TB research?

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While global investment in TB research remains very low at around $726-million in 2016, South Africa does remarkably well on some measures of TB investment when compared to other countries.

Which countries invest most in TB research?

Less money for TB research

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By Mike Frick – The world spent less on tuberculosis (TB) research in 2015 than it did in 2009. This decrease in spending does not track a similar decline in TB incidence or mortality.