WHO’s 2025 HIV clinical guidelines simplify and strengthen care by recommending more durable, safer treatment regimens, ...
Produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), this digitally colorized scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image, depicts a grouping of red-colored, rod shaped, ...
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TB prevention and cure

AS a director of the Philippine Tuberculosis Society, Inc. (PTSI), my advocacy extends beyond treating TB — it must also confront one of the strongest drivers of the disease: smoking in all its forms, ...
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is a proinflammatory cytokine that has a key role in the pathogenesis of a variety of autoimmune diseases—including rheumatoid arthritis—and is an important constituent of ...
Dolutegravir-based ART with isoniazid was safe and effective for tuberculosis prevention in ART-naïve HIV patients, leading to rapid viral suppression. The study reported minimal adverse events, with ...
Despite efforts to eliminate the disease, 13 million Americans are living with latent tuberculosis infection, according to the most recent statistics from the National Health and Nutrition Examination ...
Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination didn't help prevent sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in initially uninfected adolescents without HIV in a randomized trial from South Africa.
U.S. health officials say they have found a far simpler therapy for people at risk of developing tuberculosis, addressing a key barrier to preventing the spread of the disease. Patients who took a ...
Global progress to reduce the number of people who fall ill with tuberculosis (TB) has stalled. More than 10 million people are still getting sick every year, and the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed ...
Researchers have published an official clinical guideline on the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). The American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, European ...
Tuberculosis is both curable and preventable, yet each year, it still kills more people than any other infectious disease.
Peru’s fight against tuberculosis demonstrates how global neglect endangers public health. COVID-19 setbacks, poverty, and limited care have driven TB’s rise. Now, proposed US aid cuts threaten ...