The amount is still far below what the U.S. spent previously on humanitarian and health aid, but resumes the flow of money for key efforts to fight malnutrition and disease.

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The Geita Region of Tanzania is known as critical focal point for tuberculosis (TB) control due to its persistently high disease burden and unique socio-economic landscape. Despite this, limited resea...

Save the date: 66th ITM Colloquium 'Health in Motion: Infectious Diseases on the Move' taking place 15-17/11/2026 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Funding call supporting transdisciplinary teams led from Africa, South Asia or South-East Asia to conduct clinical trials that optimise licensed pharmaceutical interventions for infectious diseases.

A new study in "Nature Medicine" estimates that 2 million people are incorrectly told they have tuberculosis each year — and clinicians miss diagnosing TB in 1 million people. Why so many misdiagnoses...

GHIT Fund invests USD 1.8 million to support research on the Lung Flute ECO

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Since 2018, the WHO recommends provision of single-dose rifampicin post-exposure prophylaxis (SDR-PEP) to contacts of leprosy patients. In the Post-ExpOsure Prophylaxis for LEprosy (PEOPLE) trial that...

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Background Diabetes mellitus (DM) raises the risk of contracting Tuberculosis (TB) infection and progressing to TB disease. Screening people with diabetes for TB infection and offering preventive trea...

This cohort study of births in a Canadian province examines whether higher prenatal exposures to fine particulate matter and its components are associated with risk of autism spectrum disorder.

The Aurum Institute is a leading healthcare organisation that has been successfully battling the joint scourge of the HIV and TB for over 20 insightful years

As autoridades de saúde apontam a falta de financiamento como uma das causas do aumento da doença. Entre 2019 e 2024, do total de 108.242 casos notificados e tratados no país, 10.547 eram crianças.

New research estimates that as many as 2.2 million more people could die of tuberculosis if U.S. cuts to foreign aid become permanent.

More than 500 staff members at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) contribute every day to improving the health of millions of people world...

The purpose of this call for proposals is to meet the current moment by supporting timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding.

We estimate substantial potential impacts on tuberculosis morbidity and mortality due to reductions in international donor funding. Expanded support from domestic and international donors is essential...

In this work, through a comprehensive proteomics approach, the authors identified host plasma protein biosignatures that could distinguish tuberculosis (TB) disease in children.

A policy tweak to the ban on foreign “subawards” should allow clinical trials worldwide to continue

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Save the date: 65th ITM Colloquium 'Innovations in Infectious Disease Research' taking place 4-6/11/25 in Antwerp, Belgium

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After transitioning in 1917, Alan L. Hart helped alter medical history

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is emerging from two wars claiming 6 million lives and relatively recent colonial rule. The resultant widespread poverty and geopolitical instability, along ...

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria should step up efforts