Tuberculosis - The Aurum Institute

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 ...
TB prevention must be a priority during COVID-19

Members in Action highlights the many areas of work that our members are championing to ensure a better future in lung health. From our Regions, Scientific Sections and member working groups, to the ...
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...
Prevention has to be a priority for all diseases, not just the pandemic of the moment

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Smart Medication Container Included in GDF product Catalog

Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (GDF) and the Unitaid-funded Adherence Support Coalition to End TB (ASCENT project) announce the inclusion of the first digital adherence technology (DAT) ...
The Aurum Institute awarded grant by NIH for Clinical Trials Unit

JOHANNESBURG, 1 DECEMBER 2020 - The Aurum Institute has been awarded a seven-year grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) to drive the scientific agendas of t...
World Aids Day 2020: Gains against HIV should not be derailed by COVID-19

Let us not lose sight of HIV in the face of COVID-19. This was the World AIDS Day message from Professor Dave Clark, Group Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer: Southern Africa at the...
Generating Evidence: An update in the IMPAACT4TB project

A critical pillar of the IMPAACT4TB project is the ongoing generation of evidence to ensure that decisions about the use of short-course preventive therapies – including 3HP – are based on the l...
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...
New TB treatment to cut pill intake by two-thirds: researchers

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Ghana to benefit from new affordable patient-friendly TB preventive therapy

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Dr Regina Osih on KTN News Kenya: New TB therapy rollout: How Covid-19 pandemic affected TB treatment | Bottomline Africa

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A new TB preventive therapy aims to increase patient compliance

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New publication: BCG vaccination and COVID morbidity and mortality

Lucy Chimoyi In 2020, in the absence of therapeutic interventions to control COVID-19 spread, and a seemingly higher COVID-19 burden in many developed countries, many researchers investigated the ass...
New publication: Aurum staff part of an important TB prevention study

The results of an important tuberculosis study that involved staff from The Aurum Institute’s Clinical Research Division (CRD), has been published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal. The art...
Ascent South Africa conducts site assessment visits

The ASCENT team in South Africa recently visited healthcare facilities as a part of the selection process for sites to be randomized to participate in the ASCENT project. During these visits, the team...
Empowering youth in South Africa through the Ascent project

The ASCENT team in South Africa has completed a training for the first group of interns that will take over research specific duties from the staff of healthcare facilities. This way the healthcare wo...
Ascent South Africa launches at randomization event

The ASCENT South Africa team recently held a successful randomization event which also served as the kick-off of the digital adherence technologies (DAT) project in South Africa. The ASCENT project...
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...
World TB Day: Let’s seize this moment to change the status quo

This article by Dr Kavindhran Velen and Professor Salome Charalambous, was originally published in Spotlight and the Daily Maverick This World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, we divert our attention momenta...