September 2025

Developed by TAG, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the South African Medical Research Council, this issue brief provides information about TB and HIV clinical trials and research programs impacted by U.S...

Clinical trials are considered to be the largest contributor to pharmaceutical development costs. However, public disclosure of the costs of individual clinical trials is rare. Médecins Sans Frontiè...

Background Swab-based molecular platforms that enable testing of both sputum (via swabs swirled in sputum) and tongue swabs are emerging as a promising option for more accessible and lower cost molecu...

By retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again.

The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.

In its 80 year history, the United Nations has been exclusively ruled by men. A growing movement is calling for women’s leadership of the international body to help bring about reform and strengthen g...

US funding cuts drives mass layoffs of healthcare workers and TB Care services leading to heightening risk of transmission and development of drug resistance Abrupt funding cuts threaten to reverse a...

PRINCETON, New Jersey, USA, Mar 06 (IPS) - In the west of Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria, where I come from, a tuberculosis outbreak is no different from one that takes place anywhere else i...

Much attention has been focused on the Trump administration’s rollback of women’s health and rights. But their alternative model of global health multilateralism will be equally damaging, writes Sophi...

A week after terminating thousands of contracts, the administration has sent questionnaires to those programs asking how their work benefits the U.S. national interest.

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday that severe funding cuts – particularly in the United States – are threatening decades of progress in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), st...

Years of progress against tuberculosis, the world's most deadliest infectious disease are being derailed by the abrupt funding cuts by the United States to

YouTube video by MSF Access Campaign

Time: 10:30 IST | 11:00 BDT | 12:00 ICT | 13:00 PHT Join APCASO, the Diagnostics Equity Consortium (DEC), and the Treatment Action Group (TAG) for a two-part study club series focused on the Asia- Pa...

Tracking the impact of TB funding via USAID

With his new book 'Everything Is Tuberculosis,' celebrity author John Green is breathing new life into tuberculosis advocacy

The European Union will conduct a review of its multi-billion euro external aid to more closely align the bloc’s funding allocation with its foreign policy interests in the midst of a challenging inte...

Tell Danaher to release their third party audit!

The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted prequalification to the molecular diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) called Xpert® MTB/RIF Ultra. It is the first test for TB diagnosis and antibioti...

Adam R. Houston, Robyn Waite, Leigh Raithby, Saloni Fruehauf

Dr Jane Cunningham is a Diagnostics Advisor with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)’s Access Campaign. In this blog she takes a closer look at…

Survey of adoption of WHO paediatric TB guidelines into national policy frameworks in 14 countries