World TB Day @ McGill

Every year, on March 24, the world observes World TB Day. TB is one of the world’s top health challenges with 9 million new TB cases and the deaths of nearly 1.5 million people each year. World TB Day is an occasion to mobilize political and social commitment for further progress towards eliminating TB as a public health problem.

On 24^th March, McGill International TB Centre, and McGill Global Health Programs, endorse the call for a global effort to find, treat and cure all people with TB and accelerate progress towards the bold goal of ending TB by 2035.

• McGill International TB Center
• McGill University Newsroom
• MUHC

OP-EDs:

• It is the global community’s responsibility to help eradicate tuberculosis

Dr. Marcel Behr, Montreal Gazette 

• Tuberculosis control requires new technologies and approaches

Dr. Madhukar Pai, The Tribune 

• Time to scale-up innovations in TB diagnosis and treatment

Dr. Madhukar Pai, Business Line
ARTICLES:

• How can we test and treat the missing millions of tuberculosis patients?

PLoS Medicine 

• Global tuberculosis control requires greater ambition and resources

Journal of Epidemiology & Global Health

• Tuberculosis Diagnostics in 2015: Landscape, Priorities, Needs, and Prospects

Journal of Infectious Diseases

• The feasibility, accuracy and impact of Xpert MTB/RIF testing in a remote Aboriginal community in Canada

CHEST 

• Low rates of recurrence after successful treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Tomsk, Russia

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 

• Re-emergence and Amplification of Tuberculosis in the Canadian Arctic

Journal of Infectious Diseases

• Tuberculin skin test negativity is under tight genetic control of chromosomal region 11p14-15 in settings with different tuberculosis endemicities

Journal of Infectious Diseases

• Insights on the emergence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the analysis of Mycobacterium kansasii.

Genome Biol Evol 

• Annexin1 regulates DC efferocytosis and cross-presentation during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

J Clin Invest 

• Modeling the impact of tuberculosis interventions on epidemiologic outcomes and health system costs

BMC Pub Health 

• TB control requires new tools, policies, and delivery models

Ind J Tuberculosis 

• Enhancing the quality of tuberculosis care in India

Global Policy 
MEDIA RELEASES AND EXPERT CITATIONS:

• DNA test slashes wait times for tuberculosis diagnosis in Iqaluit
  Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Newsroom

• The Most Neglected Disease: Tuberculosis isn’t history, and it’s much more dangerous than malaria or Ebola.
  Slate

• Research shows new TB tester reduces diagnosis time in Nunavut
  Nunatsiaq Online

• Ottawa doctor says new TB test making difference in Nunavut
  Ottawa Citizen

To learn more about TB research at McGill and MUHC, please visit: http://www.mcgill.ca/tb/

March 24, 2015