A tuberculosis vaccine that can be inhaled has been developed and successfully tested by scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and Harvard University.

The dry powder Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is as effective as the traditional injectable TB vaccine but it is easier to administer using an inhaler and easier to store

With over 1,100 children being infected with HIV daily, United Nations organizations have appealed to countries to bolster efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmissions (PMTCT) of the virus.

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the UN World Health Organization (WHO), along with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, jointly called on authorities to step up protection for mothers and children at the end of a three-day global meeting on HIV/AIDS in Washington on Wednesday

Rates of multiple-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) continue to rise, reaching record levels in parts of the former Soviet Union and could soar even higher, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report released Tuesday. It is the first estimate of the scope of drug-resistant TB issued by the WHO since 2004.

Other parts of the world, mainly China and parts of Africa are also becoming the breeding grounds for the spread of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and extensively drug resistant TB, said the report. WHO experts are worried that if multi-drug resistant TB penetrates Africa and coincides with AIDS, it will be a "disaster situation

Hawaii health officials tested Tuesday 106 students and faculty of a public school, where one teacher was found to have been infected with tuberculosis.

Department of Health (DOH) officials conducted the tests on Kahuku High & Intermediate School students and teachers who came into contact with the TB-infected teacher as a precaution to contain the disease

The United States joined the government of Tanzania, the World Bank and the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria by funding the distribution of 5.2 million mosquito nets to Tanzanians. The financial assistance was announced by U.S. President George Bush after he visited on Monday a bed net factory and a hospital with malaria patients.

Funding for the mosquito net project will come from a five-year $1.2 billion program initiated in 2005 to reduce by 50 percent malaria deaths in 15 African nations. Bush said vouchers were distributed for 5.2 million mosquito nets to be sold with hefty discounts, aimed at providing protection to pregnant Tanzanian women and their infants and young children