24 March 2023
Malaysia has successfully maintained its status as a country with intermediate TB incidence with efforts through the National TB Control Programme.
Tag: tuberculosis
9 August 2022
Civil society in Ukraine rode bicycles to deliver HIV and tuberculosis medications during a fuel shortage during the Russia-Ukraine conflict; if there were no bicycles, they walked.
26 April 2022
It has been over 100 years since the last licensed tuberculosis vaccine. The clock is ticking to find a new one.
24 March 2021
Tuberculosis is treatable and easily diagnosed yet until Covid-19 emerged it was the world's biggest infectious killer, leading to 1.4 million deaths each year and infecting more than 10 million people.
30 October 2019
Despite clearing clinical trials, the vaccine is expected to be licensed only by 2028.
20 September 2019
BCG vaccination protects individuals well into adult life.
18 September 2019
Carmen Yee died of TB following multiple visits to the hospital.
9 September 2019
Most of the TB cases in the country in 2018, or 87.5 per cent, infected Malaysians.
15 August 2019
Pretomanid is only the third new TB drug to be approved by the FDA in more than 40 years.