Gambia: MRC Highlights the Fight Against TB and Its Complications allafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Experts speak: what People with TB want researchers to know lshtm.ac.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lshtm.ac.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The third day of World Immunisation Week will concentrate on Tuberculosis, focusing on vaccine development, progress, equity and clinical trials. The webinar, chaired by Toyin Togun from LSHTM, will include a presentation by Jayne Sutherland from LSHTM on TB vaccine development and Richard White from LSHTM on the contribution of TB vaccines to global TB control.
On 24th March each year, the world commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as the causative agent of tuberculosis.
We have taken this opportunity to host a one-day symposium March every year since 2010, to highlight contemporary TB research, control measures and policy initiatives, and to discuss future challenges.