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India should heed a teenager’s historic fight for lifesaving TB treatment (post)
Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg have shown us the formidable power of a single adolescent girl with determination. Shreya Tripathi of India, who didn’t live to see her 20th birthday, belongs with Malala and Greta in the pantheon of teenagers whose unswerving principles have brought the powerful to their knees.
Belarus to switch to WHO’s new treatment guidelines for MDR-TB (post)
“The World Health Organization has recently updated its treatment guidelines for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Now all MDR-TB patients (not only those with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, XDR-TB) should get new medicines in line with the WHO's new recommendations,” Vyacheslav Grankov, Communicable Diseases Programme Coordinator of the World Health Organization in Belarus, said.
India: Despite free care, TB takes a toll of patients’ finances (post)
One in four patients affected by Tuberculosis (TB) has to spend out of his/her own pocket to access treatment, which should otherwise be anyway available for free.
TB killed Shreya Tripathi, but her death could have been avoided (post)
India's health ministry wanted to distribute a life saving TB drug only to patients in big cities. A girl from Patna fought the government and won, but it was too late for her.
Shorter treatments transform lives of TB patients in Kyrgyzstan (post)
Kyrgyzstan is one of 30 countries in the world with high rates of drug-resistant TB – 26 per cent of new cases of TB are drug resistant, compared to a world average of four per cent. And a staggering 61 per cent of reinfections are the drug resistant form, compared to 19 per cent globally.
The gendered realities of the TB epidemic (post)
It is scientifically proven that patriarchy shoots everyone in the foot.
Will new TB treatments reach those who need them most? (post)
MADRID — Pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline is pursuing new treatments for tuberculosis but insists it will need support from governments and funding agencies if it is to get them to patients in lower-income countries, the head of its global health unit, David Barros-Aguirre, told Devex.
Venezuela falls under the triple attack of HIV, TB and malaria (post)
April 13, 2019: In 2017, the Canadian-based International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) and Venezuelan NGO Acción Ciudadana Contra el SIDA (ACCSI) released the first “Triple Threat” Bulletin, an X-ray on Venezuela’s health crisis, specifically on tuberculosis (TBC), malaria and HIV. Back then, the findings were grim. You’d expect after a year, someone, and by “someone” I mean chavismo (who—as actioning government for the past two decades—is the sole responsible for the crisis) would have taken action to stop people from dying of preventable, treatable causes.
“Dialogue” highlighted as way forward at closure of WHO Fair Pricing Forum (post)
WHO said that it will launch a public online consultation involving governments, industry and civil society to try to come up with a broad consensus on what actually constitutes a “fair price” for essential medicines.
TB: India’s silent epidemic (post)
Aditi (name changed), 18, sat cross-legged on her private hospital bed in Kolkata. The black scarf covering her mouth did little to hide her emaciated face. Cheeks stained with long-dried tears, she stared at the ceiling unsure of whether she’d live or die – unsure of whether or not there was a real cure for her.
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