New TB website launched

A new website has been launched to help with the diagnosis of TB around the world.

The Joint United Nations Programme on Aids (UNAIDS) has launched the platform, which intends to be a one-stop comprehensive guide to dealing with TB.

Included on the website, located at www.tbevidence.org, are policy information, guidelines, research agendas and up-to-date advice on the disease.

Alasdair Reid, HIV/TB adviser at UNAIDS, explained that there is a link between HIV sufferers and TB, which the new resource will help to combat.

"This is an essential resource for HIV implementers, activists and civil society alike that will keep them updated on the latest developments in TB diagnosis," he said.

"Without a faster, simpler, more accurate TB test we will really struggle to stop people living with HIV from dying of TB."

Other organisations involved in setting up the website include the Stop TB Partnership's New Diagnostics Working Group and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics.

The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, the Global Laboratory Initiative and the Public Health Agency of Canada also participated.

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