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North Korea is about to exhaust its tuberculosis drug supply, experts warn (post)
North Korea has yet to report a single case of COVID-19—a remarkable success that, if true, the nation achieved after severing links with the outside world. But that isolation could soon exact a steep toll in other areas of public health: Humanitarian groups warn the isolated country is facing eroding food security, and they are bracing for a rapid spread of tuberculosis (TB), as supplies of first-line drugs against more treatable strains are expected to run out this month.
Updated WHO Information Note: Ensuring continuity of TB services during the COVID-19 pandemic (post)
As the world comes together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to ensure that essential health services and operations are continued to protect the lives of people with TB and other diseases or health conditions. Health services, including national programmes to combat TB, need to be actively engaged in ensuring an effective and rapid response to COVID-19 while ensuring that TB services are maintained.
400 people in South Africa with highly drug-resistant TB to get new three-drug regimen (post)
Treatment of drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (DR-TB) in South Africa has been transformed over the last decade. Most people with DR-TB no longer have to take daily injections and treatment is often completed in nine months, compared to 18 to 24 months in the past. Maybe most importantly, fewer people are dying of DR-TB and fewer people are suffering hearing loss, a common side effect of injections used in the past.
New patient-friendly TB preventive therapy to be rolled out in five high-burden TB countries at affordable price (post)
-- Fixed-dose combination treatments reduce the pill burden from nine to three pills a week for adults and prevent TB in those at highest risk of developing the disease
-- Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe will be the first countries out of a total of 12 to provide the new regimen at a US$15 price thanks to funding from Unitaid, PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Drug cocktail tested on extremely drug-resistant TB (post)
-- Tajikistan becomes the second country in the world to try out the BPaL regimen
-- WHO recommends the novel treatment under operational research conditions
-- New drug regimen is easy to use and more affordable
TB Europe Coalition: A series of webinars on TB and migrant health (post)
The TB Europe Coalition and the Regional Expert Group on Migration and Health in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are coordinating a series of 3 webinars on TB and migrant health. The webinars will address the barriers migrants face when accessing TB and healthcare services across the World Health Organization European Region and the challenges for service delivery.
Huge gaps in TB care for people living with HIV in some countries (post)
All (100%) of people living with HIV newly started on antiretroviral therapy should receive either tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment (blue bar) or TB treatment (orange bar)—together, they represent “optimal TB care”. The green bar shows the percentage of people newly started on antiretroviral therapy who did not receive optimal TB care and are vulnerable to falling ill or dying from TB.
As COVID-19 derails TB progress, advocates demand renewed commitment to end TB (post)
In March last year, I had written about the potential negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on tuberculosis (TB) services. I had expressed concern that TB services is might be one of the biggest casualties. A year later, the verdict is in: the pandemic has had a devastating impact on TB services. According to WHO, an estimated 1.4 million fewer people received necessary care for TB during 2020 compared with the previous year, because of Covid-19. According to the Stop TB Partnership, 12 months of Covid-19 eliminated 12 years of progress in the global fight against TB.
Stop TB Partnership: Virtual Innovation Spotlights (post)
In order to support country programmes, healthcare providers, communities, people affected by TB, and partners during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stop TB Partnership’s External Affairs & Strategic Initiatives team, as part of its Re-imagining TB Care initiative, is organizing a series of Virtual Innovation Spotlights to present and share various digital and health technologies that can be used to:
Webinar: TB and migrant health in Western Europe (post)
On 20 April 2021, the TB Europe Coalition and the Regional Expert Group on Migration and Health in Eastern Europe and Central Asia will co-host a webinar addressing the barriers migrants face when accessing TB and healthcare services across the Western European countries and the challenges for service delivery.
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