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Community Engagement through Drama

Dr. Gill Black is the co-founder and Director of Health and Welfare at The Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation (SLF). In this inteview, we discuss with Dr. Black one of SLF's groundbreaking projects that uses drama to engage local communities around ...

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Announcing the InnovateTB Contest

Announcing the InnovateTB contest! Innovations are revolutionizing TB. Tell us your story! On World TB Day, the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New TB Drugs (WGND) announces the InnovateTB Contest to encourage and highlight innovations to achiev...

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TB R&D Weekly Update: Podcast Interview with Dr. Tawanda Gumbo

In this week's interview, we discuss with Dr. Tawanda Gumbo his recently published paper that puts forth evidence that nonadherence may not be the prime reason for the emergence of drug resistance in TB, his research interests and background, the rec...

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Kick TB Campaign: Scoring Big in South Africa and Beyond

The Kick TB Campaign is a unique project that uses the World's most popular sport to educate and engage young people in the effort to stop the spread of tuberculosis (TB). ...

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The Global TB Drugs Pipeline

An online tool that invites developers to submit their TB drug candidates so we can provide a more complete snapshot of current global efforts.

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Why We Need New TB Drugs

Today's TB drug regimen takes too long to be effective and requires too many medications. Treatment of drug-sensitive disease requires 6-9 months whereas treatment of drug-resistant TB is even lengthier, taking 18-24 months or longer.

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To accelerate the discovery and development of new drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis by bringing together the stakeholders in TB Drug Development, including the patients themselves.
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Global Members

The WGND is composed of diverse interested stakeholders in TB drug development, including those working in TB drug R&D, regulators, public health workers, funders, community representatives, advocates and policy-makers.
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Total members: 215

WGND Members:

Kyu Rhee

Weill Cornell Medical College

Albert Makone

Community Working Group on Health

P. R. Narayanan

Tuberculosis Research Centre, Chennai (retired)

Chris Dippel

Peloton Partnering, SP

Dr Muhammad Farooq

Govt of Pakistan

Victoria Kasprowicz

K-RITH (KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV)

Edward Nardell

Partners in Health

Jonathan Blackburn

University of Cape Town

Jennifer Fujii

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Christo van Niekerk

TB Alliance

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