Tuberculosis (TB) has been a disease for centuries with various challenges [1]. Like other places where challenges and opportunities come together, TB challenges were the inspiration for the scientific community to mobilize different groups for the purpose of interest. For example, with the emergence of drug resistance, there has been a huge volume of research on the discovery of new medicines and drug delivery...
Despite the significant progress of tuberculosis (TB) and nontuberculous mycobacteria research in Brazil, at the beginning of the millennium there was still a weak cooperation among the various actors in this area: industry, universities, research institutes, civil society and health services, including the National TB Program (NTP). In 2001, REDE-TB - the Brazilian TB Research Network - was created as a multid...