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TBVI regularly shows up in a diverse range of media productions. Here is a short overview (not complete):

• The race against tuberculosis, Projects website and magazine, 7 December 2011

  Want to get to zero Aids-deaths? Deal with TB! Blogposts on the occasion of World Aids day 2011 on i.a. Key Correspondents, Citizen News Service, TB Europe Coalition and Asian Tribune

• New times, new tactics: broadening the argument for TB vaccine development, TBVI blogpost on Journalists against TB, also published on Citizen News Service and Key Correspondents 22 November 2011

• TB vaccine network to connect African and European institutions, Key Correspondents 11 November 2011
  
  
• Call for new vaccines, blogpost on Journalists against TB
  
  
• Overview media outreach related tot the press conference organized by Fundacion Ramon Areces, Spain, 18 October 2011.
  
  
• TB vaccine research: New network connects African, European institutions Africa Science News
  
  
• New TB vaccines: a reality in the next decade, article on Citizen News Service
  
  
• New TB vaccines, a matter of poltical will, TBVI blogpost on Journalists Against TB, also published on Citizen News Service
  
  
• Nieuwe tbc-vaccins een kwestie van politieke wil, article in Dutch medical magazine Medical Facts, 6 July 2011
  
  
• Overview media outreach related to press conference organized by the biopharmaceutical company Biofabri, Spain, 24 May 2011, where the progress of the vaccine candidate MTBVAC01 to phase I clinical trials was announced.
  
  
• The French TV3 on 9 April 2011 had a one hour TV show about tuberculosis vaccines. 42 min. from the beginning, the current TB vaccine development work from Institut Pasteur Lille was explained, including the role of TBVI.
  
  
• TBVI partner Peter Andersen receives prestigious scientific prize, Citizen News Service, 6 April 2011
  
  
• Overview media outreach World TB Day symposium, organized by TBVI and several other partners, 24 March 2011
  
  
• TBC: de moordenaar komt sterker terug, Nederlands Dagblad (Dutch Daily), 25 March 2011
  
  
• New vaccines: A financial booster, article in Financial Times, 24 March 2011
  
  
• TB vaccines: getting them out of the lab, Science and Development Network, 24 March 2011. Also published on Alertnet, 31 May 2011
  
  
• Spotlight on new approach to tuberculosos vaccine funding, TBVI blog post at Citizen News Service: Citizen News Service, 24 March 2011
  
  
• Tuberkuloosi ei ole menneisyyden vitsaus, opinion article by Juhani Eskola in Helsingin Sanomat, Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish), 24 March 2011
  
  
• Developing new TB vaccines: cucial requirements, TBVI blog post at TropIKA, 9 March 2011
  
  
• New vaccines aganist TB seem to be in sight, TBVI blog post at Journalists against TB, 13 February 2011
  
  
• Progress in tuberculosis vaccine research, TBVI blog post at Citizen News service (CNS), 13 February 2011
  
  
• MEPs urge EU to fight tuberculosis worldwide, press release European Parliament 

• New vaccines against TB, where do we stand? TBVI blog post on Journalists Against TB, 25 January 2011 

• Erforschung von TB-Impfstoffen macht Fortschritte - Es fehlt aber am Geld, Ärzte Zeitung, 3 January 2011 (in German)

• Overview media outreach 2nd global forum on TB vaccines, co-organized by TBVI, 21-24 September 2010

• A new blueprint for TB vaccines, TropIKA.net, 13 October 2010

• Funding crucial to tackling global TB epidemic, Irish Times, 1 October 2010

• Eesti on tuberkuloosi vastu voitlemisel teistele eeskujuks, opinion in Estonian medical newspaper Meditsiiniuudised, 28 September 2010

• TB vaccine advocates assess efforts to raise TB vaccine support, Science Speaks, 27 September 2010

• Gulbenkian dá 100 mil euros para ajudar no desenvolvimento de nova vacina, Destak, July 7, 2010 (in Portgese)

• TB conference to map out vaccine plan, SciDev.net, September 20, 2010

• Fighting TB in Asia: Public and private health sector should partner up, Citizen News Service, June 15, 2010

• Research and development of new tuberculosis vaccines: conference update, TropIKA, June 9, 2010

• Symposium shows progress in TB vaccines, Citizen News Service, June 8, 2010

• Tuberculosis vaccine research: progress is being made, TropIKA, June 7, 2010

• Further research into field of new tuberculosis vaccines needed, Citizen News Service, June 4, 2010

• Los recortes en investigación no retrasarán la nueva vacuna contra la tuberculosis, Aragondigital, June 4, 2010

• Seis vacunas en desarrollo en TB tratan de mejorar la actual :: Diariomedico.com :: ESPAÑA, Herenciageneticayenfermedad, June 4, 2010

• Tuberculosis: The quest for vaccine picks up momentum, BioSpectrum, April 28, 2010.

• Inoculations: Drive is on to replace venerable 90-year-old vaccine, Financial Times (free registration required), March 24, 2010 (article in Combating Tuberculosis special report)

• TBVI is developing booster BCG vaccines, BioSpectrum, February 4, 2010

• La tuberculose à mettre à l’agenda, La Libre Belgique, January 26 2010. Former minister of health Catherine Fonck made a proposal for a resolution to include the global fight against TB in the agenda of the Belgian presidency of the European Union in 2010. She supports the activities of TBVI to develop new vaccines.
  
  
• Zeitbombe Tuberkulose, Berlin Medical, September 4, 2009.
  
  
• TB vaccine research gets a boost from Europe, TropIKA.net, August 28, 2009.
  
  
• Bill Gates, el magnate más generoso, El Pais, August 25, 2009.
  
  
• Flevolands bedrijf krijgt miljoenen van Bill Gates, De Stentor, August 20, 2009.
  
  
• Bill Gates geeft 3 miljoen aan tuberculosebestrijder, de Volkskrant and most other Dutch newspapers, August 18, 2009.