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Tuberculosis

The UK Can Bend the Curve of the HIV, TB and Malaria Epidemics

Dr Alvaro Bermejo | Posted 02.05.2013 | UK
Read More: Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, US Budget, Here I Am Campaign, Global Fund, G8, UK Impact, Kenya, David Cameron, Aids, UK News
Dr Alvaro Bermejo

David Cameron has identified other priorities for this summit - trade, tax and transparency - and will host a pre-meeting focused on world hunger. These are all vital issues, but the Prime Minister also needs to protect what has already been achieved and should encourage the G8 to deliver on past promises.

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Badger Campaigners Could Trigger Commons Debate On Cull

PA | Posted 24.09.2012 | UK
Read More: UK News, Team Badger, Badger Cull, Brian May, E-Petitions, Bovine Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Badgers, UK News

More than 100,000 people have signed a petition against a cull of badgers to tackle tuberculosis in cattle, in a bid to prompt a parliamentary debate ...

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Tuberculosis: It's Closer Than You Think

Aaron Oxley | Posted 18.11.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: UK, Europe, Belarus, The Global Fund, HIV/AIDS, Health, Tb, Tuberculosis, Public Health, Eu, UK Politics News
Aaron Oxley

So where in the world can you find the highest rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis? I'll give you a clue - it also happens to be one of only two regions in the world where the number of new HIV cases continues to rise every year. It's not Africa. It's not South America or even Asia. It's the European region.

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The Problem Isn't Badgers, It's (Politically Led?) Bad Science

Hilary Burrage | Posted 19.11.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Rural Economy, Farmers, Science, Bovine TB, Badgers, Tuberculosis, Defra, Animal Rights, UK Politics, Badger Cull, UK Animals, UK Politics News
Hilary Burrage

National Farmers' Union and the majority of farmers - but not all - may believe that badger culls will do the trick, and a lot of politicians want to keep the farmers onside. And it will probably pay electoral dividends for a while. But longer term this 'solution' is could even make things worse...

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Badger Campaigners Vow to Fight On After Court Defeat

PA | Posted 11.09.2012 | UK
Read More: UK Courts, Badger Trust, UK News, Brian May, Badger Cull, Bovine Tuberculosis, Bovine TB, Tuberculosis, Badger, Badgers, Wildlife, UK News

A challenge to culls which will kill thousands of badgers has failed at the Court of Appeal. The Badger Trust had attacked Mr Justice Ouseley's dec...

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Cases Of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis On The Rise

PA | Posted 05.07.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Symptoms, Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, UK News, Case, Antibiotics, Health News, At Risk, Tuberculosis, Slideexpand, UK Lifestyle News

Drug-resistant cases of Tuberculosis (TB) are on the rise in the UK, figures suggest. The number of cases of the infectious disease which could not...

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Seeing the Difference Sport Relief Can Make

Suzy Vickers | Posted 20.05.2012 | UK Sport
Read More: Hiv, Sport Relief, UK Impact, Tuberculosis, Charity, South Africa, Comic Relief, Sport Relief Mile, Aids, UK Sport News
Suzy Vickers

Eight years ago, July Letsebe was lying on a bed in his small tin shack, waiting to die. Seriously ill with tuberculosis and - although he didn't know it yet - HIV, he had all but given up hope of surviving for more than a few weeks.

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White Plague: Multidrug Resistant TB Crisis 'Needs Urgent Attention'

The Huffington Post UK | Georgia James | Posted 20.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: TB Treatment, Drug Resistant TB, Video, UK News, Multidrug Resistant TB, White Plague, Tuberculosis, World TB Day, Medecins Sans Frontieres, UK Health News, UK Lifestyle News

For many people, the disease tuberculosis evokes images of the sickly child-protagonists of Victorian novels, bed-bound with “consumption”. Bu...

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Badger Cull: Doing Nothing is Not an Acceptable Option

Jim Paice | Posted 01.04.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Badger Cull, Defra, Animal Rights, Cattle, UK Politics, Agriculture, Farming, Badgers, Tb, Tuberculosis, UK Diary, UK Politics News
Jim Paice

Nobody wants to cull badgers. But equally no country in the world where wildlife carries TB has been able to eradicate the disease in cattle without tackling it in wildlife too.

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Bill Gates Donates $750m To Global Fund To Fight Aids, TB And Malaria

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 26.03.2012 | UK
Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Video, UK News, Davos, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Microsoft, Aids, Malaria, Hiv, Bill Gates, Tuberculosis, World Economic Forum, UK News

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is donating $750m through his charitable foundation to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Gates ...

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Scottish Students Contract Tuberculosis

Huffington Post UK | Posted 21.01.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: UK, Tb, Student Health, Lifestyle, UK News, Tuberculosis, Health, Universities, UK Universities & Education News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Two students on the same college course have contracted tuberculosis (TB), public health experts have confirmed. The patients ...

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Spelman Faces Badger Cull Battle

epolitix.com | Posted 18.09.2011 | UK
Read More: Bovine TB, Animal Rights, Tuberculosis, UK Issues, Caroline Spelman, Badger Cull, UK Politics, UK News

A set piece statement in the House of Commons is hard to file in the 'burying bad news' category, but it looks as thought the government is using the ...

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