HCM City has targeted testing at least 17,045 additional people with tuberculosis (TB), including 7,840 new patients with pulmonary TB, next year, according to the city’s TB Prevention and Control Programme.

 Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Mark Dybul has pledged support to Vietnam to sustainably maintain achievements in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. 

 A global fund has raised over $12.9 billion from international donors as part of a campaign aimed at effectively eradicating AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis by 2030,

 More investment is needed to beat tuberculosis - the joint most deadly infectious disease in the world - a coalition of health agencies has said.

The World Health Organization has revised up its estimate of how many people have tuberculosis by almost 500,000. 

 More than 650,000 children worldwide develop tuberculosis each year, research in the journal Lancet Global Health suggests.

 Management on bird flu to be strengthened; Forum on workers’ right to information; HSBC supports disadvantaged children; Illegal timber chopping boards intercepted