New U.N. Plan Commits $2.15 Billion to Fight Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
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The W.H.O. plan calls for the creation and improvement of laboratories to detect and monitor drug-resistant cases throughout the world.
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A fund set up to help combat three of the world's most widespread diseases will support another round of projects, organizers said Thursday, after the United States dropped its objections to financing provisions.
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PRETORIA -- The Bush administration said yesterday it would extend by two months a deadline for other countries to contribute roughly $240 million to the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an amount that is required before the United States releases its full pledge.
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Donors pledged $9.7 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at a fund-raising conference in Berlin, well short of the $15 billion to $18 billion the fund had hoped to raise.
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A novel antibiotic that is working  well in mice may be the first new drug enlisted in the fight  against tuberculosis in 40 years, an international team of  researchers said on Thursday.
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Improving access to medicine could save 10 million lives a year globally, a U.N. health envoy said on Thursday, recommending that drugmakers support research for neglected diseases and cut prices in poor countries.
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The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that it has "brought forward" to this year $5.3 million of its 2005 pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to help ensure that the United ...
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A new, untreatable form of tuberculosis is striking up to 30,000 people a year, the World Health Organization said on Friday, and warned it could spark an "apocalyptic scenario" if unchecked.
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In his 2003 State of the Union speech, President Bush said to broad acclaim that he&#39;d ask Congress to commit $15 billion, including $10 billion in new money, over five years to fight AIDS in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
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Two separate studies by U.S. researchers find that super drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis are at the tipping point of a global epidemic, and only small changes could help them spread quickly.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- An international epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis may be more widespread than previously thought, says an article in this week's issue of The Lancet .
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WASHINGTON -- The World Bank spent less than 1 percent of its global health money last year on tuberculosis control, despite the growing numbers of AIDS patients in Africa who are dying from tuberculosis, according to a report issued yesterday. The report, by a nonprofit advocacy group, called on the institution to greatly increase efforts to fight the highly contagious ...
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Rich nations pledged $200 million to  fight diseases in poor countries on Wednesday, promising to  slash the time it takes to get new vaccines to needy children  and save more than a million lives a year.
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Cape Town - Sweden has announced a new contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in response to an urgent appeal from former president Nelson Mandela and United States rock star Bono, according to the South African government
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The spread of HIV/Aids is fuelling a massive tuberculosis crisis that could see one billion people infected in the next two decades, the United Nations warned on Monday.
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The problem of multidrug-resistant TB may be even more severe than previously thought, experts warn.
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Tuberculosis will kill millions in developing countries unless radical action is taken, an aid organisation has warned.