News & events

News article 13 Nov 2025 Featured Topic on TB and Gender: WHO Global TB Report 2025 Read about the featured topic on TB and gender in the newly released WHO Global TB report 2025.
News article 18 Jul 2025 Advancing TB Research Capacity in Kenya: LIGHT Partners Lead Scientific Writing Workshop One of the LIGHT Consortium’s core commitments is to strengthen research capacity of individuals, partner institutions, and multi-stakeholder...
Participant explaining his lived experience through a photo News article 13 Jun 2024 Co-creating Solutions: Promoting Gender-Responsive Tuberculosis (TB) Care and Services through Photovoice Author: Andrew Oguntolu and Oluwatoyosi AdekeyeOn 23rd May 2023, the LIGHT Consortium at Zankli Research Centre launched a photo voice enrichment...
News article 4 Apr 2024 The vital role of parliamentarians in developing and implementing gender-responsive TB policies and programmes to address gender disparities in TB in African countries Author: Leyla Abdullahi, PhDThe substantial gender disparities in the epidemiological burden of tuberculosis (TB), with higher incidence among men (5...
News article 8 Feb 2024 New Kenyan strategic plan to harness gender-transformative approaches in ending tuberculosis Author: Leyla Abdullahi, PhDTuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major public health challenge worldwide, while disproportionately affecting men in...
News article 7 Feb 2024 Moving towards gender-responsive approaches to TB in Kenya’s National TB Strategy Authors: Edel Sakwa, Rhoda Pola and Felix MbeteraIn Kenya, a proactive effort is currently underway to enhance initiatives supporting the National...
Event 26 Jan 2024 UK Academics and Professionals to End TB (UKAPTB) Network Meeting: Strengthening partnerships across the UK to end TB The LIGHT consortium supported and participated in the first in-person UKAPTB network (The UK Academics and Professionals to end TB) event which...
Podcast cover featuring podcast title, hosts and guests Media 3 Nov 2023 Community Voices in Political Decisions: Why, How and Steps to Action In this two-part mini-series we are focusing on health systems strengthening- what it is, how to do it and what action is needed to ensure that the...