KNCV welcomes Worldwide Access Plan for Delamanid

Monday 29 February

In Bangkok on Wednesday, 24 February, Lucica Diutu, Chair of the Stop TB Partnership, and Rajesh Gupta, Senior Director at the Otsuka, jointly announced the launch of a Worldwide Access […]

‘HEALTH FOR SALE’ – Dutch Leadership on Access to Affordable Medicines and Innovation

Wednesday 10 February

On February 5, Aids Fonds, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Health Action International (HAI), KNCV and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) organized an open […]

USAID-supported TB Call to Action awarded to REACH

Tuesday 9 February

REACH, KNCV’s NGO partner in Chennai, India and currently implementing the Eli Lilly Private Public Mix project with KNCV support, has been awarded the “TB Call to Action” project by […]

Jubilee for Netty Kamp

Friday 5 February

During the February international meeting week, we congratulated senior consultant Netty Kamp with 12½ years of service (halfway to her silver jubilee) at KNCV. Executive Director Kitty van Weezenbeek recalled […]

KNCV welcomes Diana Numan

Thursday 4 February

This week Diana Numan joined KNCV as the new Director of the Operations Division. Diana Numan studied economics at the University of Amsterdam. Before joining KNCV, Diana was working as […]

Start of KNCV’s International Meeting Week

Monday 1 February

KNCV central office is buzzing with activity this week, as we welcome staff from across the globe for five intensive days of sharing and fostering a common understanding of KNCV’s […]

Panel debate: From Innovation to Impact

Friday 15 January

On January 26, KIT and KNCV hosted the panel debate ‘From Innovation to Impact’. Guest speakers included Mr. Hans Rosling and Mr. Bill Gates. In 2015 the world community agreed […]

Nigeria Minister of Health reaffirms support to KNCV/Challenge TB

Tuesday 12 January

Our support to TB control in Nigeria is the largest KNCV/Challenge TB project in Africa. The Honorable Minister of Health, Prof. I.F Adewole, the State Minister of Health, Dr.E.O. Ehiamire, […]

Launch of the US National Action Plan for Combating MDR-TB

Thursday 7 January

On January 7, USAID will officially launch the Obama Administration’s National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). On December 22, 2015, the Administration announced a comprehensive set of U.S. […]

Further decline of TB in the Netherlands in 2014.

Friday 18 December

The latest data on tuberculosis in the Netherlands in 2014 have been published by the Center for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands/RIVM. In line with the trend of the past twelve […]

Union 2015: Launch of self-assessment benchmarking tool for Childhood TB

Thursday 3 December

On Thursday 3 December, KNCV presented its Benchmarking tool for Childhood TB policies, practice and planning to the meeting of the Stop TB Working Group at the World Conference on […]

Member of Board of Trustees reappointed to permanent European Integration Committee

Friday 27 November

KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation is delighted to learn that Mirella C.B. Visser (LLM) has been reappointed by Royal decree for a second term as per 1 July 2015 as Member of […]