A trial in which adults from four continents took standard-dose efavirenz with or without the anti-TB drug rifampin (rifampicin) found a trend toward higher efavirenz minimum concentrations (Cmin) with than without rifampin. The result does not support the US labeling recommendation to raise the dose of efavirenz from 600 to 800 mg daily in people taking rifampin and weighing 50 kg or more.

GENEVA - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced new results today that show significant gains in the treatment of people living with HIV and in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the virus.

A resource for the continued implementation of the Consolidated Action Plan to Prevent and Combat Multidrug- and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the WHO European Region, 2011–2015.

NEW DELHI: Giving crowd sourcing a whole new meaning, scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have initiated a country-wide venture to build a chemical library with diverse compounds that will successfully drive drug discovery programmes, particularly for neglected diseases like tuberculosis and malaria.

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Out of every four city children diagnosed with TB in the past five years, three were girls, data from the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) showed.

MUMBAI: More than 54 healthcare providers, including seven doctors, from the city's public hospitals are currently undergoing treatment for tuberculosis. Of these, a minuscule number, mainly non-clinical staffers of these hospitals, are battling the drug-resistant form of TB.

NEW DELHI: The prevention and management of tuberculosis - one of the deadliest communicable diseases - has been hit badly in the city due to strike by health workers. Over 600 employees working in the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program have been off-duty for over three weeks raising apprehensions about the spread of the disease. They are demanding regularization in service and hike in remuneration.

A fast-track approach in identifying patients with tuberculosis (TB) may help tackle the spread of the disease in the city. Experts from the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta and Harvard School of Public Health on Monday discussed this model at a workshop on infection control at Sion Hospital.

A workshop entitled “Preparedness for introduction of the new anti-TB drugs in the treatment regimens for multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) in Belarus” was held on 28th August 2013 at the Republican Scientific and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and Tuberculosis. At the workshop, which was organized by WHO with the support of USAID, participants had the opportunity to discuss the imminent emergence of new anti-TB drugs for treatment of multi drug resistant forms of tuberculosis.