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It's time to End TB

In recognition of World TB Day and for the rest of TB Month, Aurum is highlighting some of its staff working to End TB. ...
Prof Churchyard in panel discussion: COVID-19: Early lessons from Africa

Register to be part of this webinar on early lessons from Africa on COVID-19 with Prof Gavin Churchyard, Group CEO, The Aurum Institute. He is one of the global experts who will be part of a virtual ...
New study paves the way for scale-up of TB prevention among people living with HIV, who are dying from TB in large numbers

Short Regimen for Preventing TB Found Safe When Co-administered with New First-line HIV Drug. SEATTLE (6 March 2019)—In an important moment for tuberculosis (TB) control, a new study finds that a s...
5th Global Forum on TB Vaccines - 20 February 2018

Ms Karin Turner, Programme Director for Aurum’s International Programme, UNITAID IMPAACT4TB Project, has been invited to present at the Grant Implementers Forum in Geneva from 28 February to 1 March...
5th Global Forum on TB Vaccines - 20 February 2018

The 5th Global Forum on TB Vaccines commenced in New Delhi on February 20, 2018. Professor Gavin Churchyard (Aurum Group Chief Executive Officer & Chairman: Technical Expert Group) will be speaki...
New, shorter treatment to prevent TB to be rolled out in five high-burden TB countries

Three-month regimen expected to prevent TB in those at highest risk of developing the disease, including people living with HIV and children under the age of five Today, the Aurum Institute and its p...
New, shorter treatment to prevent TB to be rolled out in five high-burden TB countries

Three-month regimen expected to prevent TB in those at highest risk of developing the disease, including people living with HIV and children under the age of five. 24 March 2020 (Johannesburg, South ...
Aurum Ghana - TB Reach Application Selected For Funding

Congratulations to the Aurum Ghana team! The "TB REACH Wave 6" application, 1109: Engaging private health providers & National Health Insurance to scale up active TB case finding among vulnerable ...
Know Your Lungs - Aurum Ghana Takes on TB

The national “Know Your Lungs” Campaign is an innovative TB and lung health awareness creation drive to increase the knowledge of Ghanaians in TB symptoms and lung health. ...
New patient-friendly tuberculosis preventive therapy to be rolled out in five high-burden TB countries at affordable price

• Fixed-dose combination treatments reduce the pill burden from nine to three pills a week for adults and prevent TB in those at highest risk of developing the disease • Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, M...
World TB Day- TB treatments are notoriously hard to stick to: shorter regimens offer a breakthrough

This article by Prof Violet Chihota, was originally published in The Conversation Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of illness and death around the world. In 2019, 10 million people fell ill with...
TB Sequel Annual Meeting (Zanzibar)

The 2018 TB-Sequel Annual Meeting kicked off mid-July in Zanzibar with a jam-packed agenda. The aim of this project is to advance the understanding of the clinical, microbiologic, and host immune...
Remedi proposal designated Top 100 in 100&Change competition

A proposal for an international research project involving the Aurum Institute has been shortlisted for a $100 million grant. The proposal by the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) was one o...
High risk of Tuberculosis in people living with HIV

The Lancet Global Health journal reports the findings of a study of a host blood test that can find those at high risk of tuberculosis in people living with HIV. The blood mRNA biomarker differentiate...
Aurum launches TB Preventative Treatment rollout in Ghana

Aurum Institute Ghana, recently launched the rollout of 3HP, a new, less toxic, short-course tuberculosis (TB) prevention therapy (TPT). This is part of the IMPAACT4TB project, implemented by a cons...
Launch of Ghana Parliamentary Caucus

The Caucus was launched on Thursday 2nd August 2018 by a collaboration between Afro Global Alliance, Aurum Ghana and Ghana TB Voice Network. It was launched by the First Deputy Speaker of the Parliam...
IMPAACT4TB Website Launch & Newsletter

The Caucus was launched on Thursday 2nd August 2018 by a collaboration between Afro Global Alliance, Aurum Ghana and Ghana TB Voice Network. It was launched by the First Deputy Speaker of the Parliam...
Statement on UN High-Level Meeting on TB

When it comes to preventing TB, we can and must do better. Statement by Gavin Churchyard, CEO of Aurum Institute: We’ve known how to prevent and treat TB for over 70 years. Yet, in 2017 an estimate...
51st Union World Conference on Lung Health

The Aurum Institute is at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health. If you are attending the virtual conference, please join us at the sessions listed below. MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND INFORMA...
Improving availability of patient-friendly tuberculosis preventive therapy

Global partners working to tackle the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic have announced the latest in a package of measures to increase supply security and availability of a short-course TB preventive therapy...