Tuberculosis
News Releases and Statements
March 21, 2013
Statement: World TB Day
Dec. 11, 2012
NIH-Funded Trial Launched to Assess Experimental TB Drug
Oct. 18, 2012
Media Availability: Antibiotic Shows Promise in Treating Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
March 24, 2012
Statement: World TB Day
March 20, 2012
Media Availability: NIH Researchers Highlight Progress, Path Forward for Developing TB Vaccines
Jan. 31, 2012
NIH-Funded HIV Clinical Research Sites to Join Pediatric TB Vaccine Study
Sept. 6, 2011
Media Availability: New TB Vaccine Approach Shows Promise in Mice
March 24, 2011
World TB Day
Jan. 25, 2011
Media Availability: Collaboration Fuels Promising New Approach to a TB Vaccine
Sept. 1, 2010
NIAID Media Availability: New TB Diagnostic Proves Effective, Expedient, Study Finds
July 22, 2010
NIH-Funded Study Finds Early HAART during TB Treatment Boosts Survival Rate in People Co-Infected with HIV and TB
July 22, 2010
Q&A: The CAMELIA Clinical Trial
April 12, 2010
Experimental Immune-Boosting Drug Worsens TB in Mice
April 28, 2009
NIAID and Chinese Officials Sign Agreement to Foster TB Research in China’s Henan Province
March 24, 2009
Joint Statement on World TB Day
Feb. 26, 2009
NIAID Media Availability: Lab Tests Show Two-Drug Combination Effective Against Drug-Resistant TB Bacteria
Nov. 27, 2008
Experimental TB Drug Explodes Bacteria from the Inside Out
July 10, 2008
Bulletin: Anti-TB Drug Fails to Benefit HIV-Exposed Infants who were Unexposed to TB at Study Enrollment
April 22, 2008
NIAID Describes Research Priorities to Fight Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
March 24, 2008
Statement of Christine F. Sizemore, Ph.D., Barbara E. Laughon, Ph.D., and Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. on World TB Day
Oct. 24, 2007
NIAID Media Availability: Promising New TB Drug Given Special Status by U.S. and European Regulators
June 6, 2007
Media Availability: NIAID Releases MDR/XDR Tuberculosis Research Agenda
March 23, 2007
World TB Day, March 24, 2007
Sept. 12, 2006
Statement: Successful Public-Private Partnership Between NIAID and Sequella Yields Promising New TB Drug for Clinical Testing
March 21, 2006
Statement on World TB Day, March 24, 2006
March 21, 2006
NIAID Updates "Focus on TB" Web Feature
Dec. 26, 2005
NIAID Researchers Show How Promising TB Drug Works
June 14, 2005
Promising New TB Drug Enters Clinical Trial
March 24, 2005
Statement of Christine F. Sizemore, Ph.D., Barbara E. Laughon, Ph.D. and Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. on World TB Day, March 24, 2005
March 24, 2004
Statement by Christine F. Sizemore, Ph.D., and Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID, on World TB Day, March 24, 2004
Jan. 26, 2004
First U.S. Tuberculosis Vaccine Trial in 60 Years Begins
April 17, 2003
Sloppy Repair Helps TB Bug Resist Drugs
May 21, 2002
World Congress on Tuberculosis Media Briefing
May 7, 2001
A Parasite, a Virus, and a Bacterium: NIAID's Plan to Tackle the World's Leading Killers
Sept. 29, 2000
Government and Industry Team Up to Battle Infectious Diseases
Aug. 17, 2000
Researchers Find Key to Tuberculosis Persistence in the Body (Supported in part by NIAID)
July 6, 2000
Researchers Create Blueprint for Tuberculosis Vaccine Development
June 21, 2000
NIAID-Industry Partnership Leads to Promising New Tuberculosis Drug