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Researchers at Kingston University are looking for former pulmonary TB patients to take part in a study examining the impact tuberculosis has on people’s lives. To take part, you need to : have had a pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis have completed treatment and no longer require further treatment be 25-45 years live in the UK You will be interviewed […]

In welcome news last week, the influential Commons Health Select Committee wrote to NHS Digital to demand an immediate end to the sharing of NHS patient records with the Home Office. This follows a secretive deal in January between NHS Digital, the body that stores patient information, and the Home Office to allow immigration officials […]

Last week in Moscow, 75 ministers agreed to take urgent action to end tuberculosis (TB) by 2030. The announcement came at the first WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Tuberculosis in the Sustainable Development Era: A Multisectoral Response, which brought together delegates from 114 countries. The Moscow Declaration to End TB is a promise to […]

The London marathon is often described as the world’s greatest marathon, and the huge demand for the limited places reflects this! You can guarantee your entry and help save lives from TB by signing up for TB Alert’s Silver Bond place. As places are limited, we ask interested runners to commit to raising over £2500 […]

A new WHO report, Antibacterial agents in clinical development – an analysis of the antibacterial clinical development pipeline, including tuberculosis,  describes antimicrobial resistance and the lack of new antibiotic candidates as a ‘global health emergency’. The report found that very few treatment options exist for antibiotic-resistant infections, including drug-resistant tuberculosis, and that most drugs in the […]

All at TB Alert are saddened at the recent passing of our Vice President, Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick. Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick achieved an enormous amount in her 92 years. She had an illustrious career as a leading thoracic physician and was appointed the first female president of the Royal College of Physicians. Dame Margaret knew […]

New research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and National Institute of Health research finds that the BCG offers more protection against TB than previously thought – offering over 20 years’ protection when given to adolescent children in the UK. Though the protection offered by the BCG varies by geographic region, according to […]

DAPP Malawi and TB Alert are seeking a consultant to undertake a final evaluation of our ‘Integrated HIV/TB Project in Thyolo, Malawi’. The project, funded by Comic Relief, focuses on increasing community knowledge and awareness of HIV and TB; improving the quality of HIV and TB services through microscopy training, doorstep HIV testing and sputum […]

Professor John Grange was born in East Dereham, Norfolk in April 1943.  John attended Gresham’s School in Holt, Norfolk, before training as a physician at The University of London’s Middlesex Hospital Medical School between 1962 and 1967. After qualifying, John travelled in Zaire before joining the Middlesex Hospital Research Department, where he studied the genus […]

The G20 Leader’s Declaration, published this weekend, has listed anti-microbial resistance (AMR) – including drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis – as a key global economic challenge. In a section devoted to AMR, the declaration recognises AMR as a growing threat to public health and economic growth and calls for a number of important measures to address […]