Africa: Good and Bad News About New TB Vaccines

The tuberculosis (TB) vaccine pipeline is depleted with little progress of candidate vaccines through the pipeline in the last few years. This is creating a serious problem for the next decade of vaccine development, warns Professor Mark Hatherill, director of…

‘Smokers, drinkers susceptible to tuberculosis’

The Bauchi State Agency for the Control HIV/AIDS, Leprosy, Tuberculosis and Malaria says people who smoke or drink much have a high risk of developing tuberculosis. The executive chairman of the agency, Dr Mohammed Alkali Sambo, said this in Bauchi…

US: Tuberculosis Kills 18 People in Nigeria Every Hour

Says the country needs N147bn to tackle scourge 1.9m Nigerians living with HIV/AIDS, says minister The United States Centre for Disease Control (US-CDC) has declared that no fewer than 18 people die in Nigeria every hour as a result of…