Tuberculosis - The Aurum Institute

Assessment of facility-based tuberculosis data quality in an integrated HIV/TB database in three South African districts

Murphy, J.P., Kgowedi, S., Coetzee, L., Maluleke, V., Letswalo, D., Mongwenyana, C., Subrayen, P., Charalambous, S., Mvusi, L., Dlamini, S. and Martinson, N., 2022. Assessment of facility-based tuberc...
Smart pill box can help with TB treatment, but it’s not for everyone

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The NIH/DAIDS Cross-Network TB Vaccine Working Group calls for people living with HIV to be included in tuberculosis vaccine development

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Digital X-rays boosting TB diagnosis, assessment finds

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Aurum at the 53rd Union World Conference on Lung Health

The Aurum Institute will join colleagues, partners, advocates and friends at the biggest scientific conference on lung health, The Union World Conference on Lung Health which will take place virtually...
Strengthen health systems to reach epidemic control

Poorly designed health system will consistently produce sub-standard results despite our best efforts, says Lauren de Kock, Aurum Regional Director: Continuous Quality Improvement and Training. “Con...
Working with traditional healers to improve TB case finding in Mozambique hands to end TB in Mozambique

More than 140 traditional healers have undergone training to help with TB case detection in Mozambique. This is part of Stop TB Partnership’s TB Reach Wave 8 project implemented by Fundação Aurum...
250,000 patients to benefit from free access to short-course TB prevention treatment across seven countries

Johannesburg, 24 March 2023 – The Unitaid-funded IMPAACT4TB Consortium, led by the Aurum Institute, announced today that it will provide 250,000 patient courses of short course rifapentine-based pre...
World TB Month: Aurum CAB member survives TB and now helps others do the same

As an Aurum Community Advisory Board (CAB) member and a tuberculosis (TB) survivor, Wellington Radebe is fully equipped in assisting health facilities in Tembisa to end TB within communities and firml...
AIG donates health commodities to Iran clinic and lCH

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Aurum Institute cerebrates 2023 World TB Day with donation to 2 hospitals

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Professor Muki Shey hopes to give back through developing TB vaccine

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SA marks World TB Day

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World TB Day 2023: Aurum Ghana donates commodities to health facilities

On 24 March 2023, Ghana joined the rest of the world in observing World TB Day, a day set aside to increase public awareness of TB, highlight the suffering that the disease continues to cause, and ins...
Deputy President, Paul Mashatile announces 5th NSP at the SANAC World TB Day 2023 commemoration

South Africa celebrated world Tb Day at the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) World TB Day commemoration in Tlhabane stadium, Rustenburg under the theme “Yes, you and I can end TB” which...
Community care model improves uptake of TB preventive therapy, KZN study finds

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World TB Month: Aurum welcomes OPT4TPT consortium to SA

Aurum hosted the OPT4TPT (Optimising the delivery cascade for Tuberculosis preventive treatment among people living with HIV) study consortium to discuss preliminary findings and identify opportunitie...
Partnerships to improve health for mine workers

The Aurum Institute together with the North West Department of Health (NW DOH) and the mining sector officially launched the Tier.Net project at the Sibanye Stillwater mine in Rustenburg South Africa ...
War against TB heightened as efforts to expand access to shorter TB prevention advances elimination

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene expression associated with fluoroquinolone resistance and efflux pump inhibition

van der Heijden, Y.F., Maruri, F., Blackman, A., Morrison, R., Guo, Y. and Sterling, T.R., 2023. Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene expression associated with fluoroquinolone resistance and efflux pump i...