From Nigeria to Pakistan, TB Testing 'in a Coma' After U.S. Aid Cuts

From Nigeria to Pakistan, TB testing 'in a coma' after U.S. aid cuts

Moves by U.S. President Donald Trump have stalled vital research in South Africa and left TB survivors lacking support in India.

Critical TB research in South Africa at risk after US aid cuts

At a tense meeting in Nigeria's capital Abuja, health workers poured over drug registers and testing records to gauge whether US aid cuts would unravel years of painstaking work against tuberculosis in one of Africa's hardest hit countries.

From Nigeria to Pakistan, TB testing 'in a coma' after US aid cuts

Desperate struggle to save endangered programmes is being replicated from the Philippines to South Africa as experts warn that US.aid cuts risk reviving a deadly infectious disease.

From Nigeria to Pakistan, TB testing ‘in a coma’ after US aid cuts

LAGOS/JOHANNESBURG/MANILA: At a tense meeting in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, health workers poured over drug registers and testing records to gauge whether US aid cuts would unravel years of painstaking work against tuberculosis in one of Africa’s hardest hit countries. For several days in May, they brainstormed ways to limit the fallout from a halt to US funding for the TB Local

Confirmation of HLA-II associations with TB susceptibility in admixed African samples

Previously, the International Tuberculosis Host Genetics Consortium (ITHGC) demonstrated the power of large-scale GWAS analysis across diverse ancestries in identifying tuberculosis (TB) susceptibility loci (Schurz et al., 2024). Despite identifying a significant genetic correlate in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-II region, this association did not replicate in the African ancestry-specific analysis, due to small sample size and the inclusio…