Items tagged with Drug-resistant TB
India: 57% of TB patients given wrong drugs (post)
MUMBAI: Here's why drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) breeds freely in Mumbai: Patients don't get appropriate medication.
Papua New Guinea: Tuberculosis concern should be on par with Ebola, CEO of World Vision says (post)
The risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis spreading through Papua New Guinea and into Australia should be just as concerning as the spread of Ebola in parts of Africa, World Vision chief executive Reverend Tim Costello says.
Tuberculosis: a joint MSF/Ministries of Health symposium to discuss new treatments and approaches in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (post)
A medical forum in Armenia gathers health authorities and specialists to discuss tuberculosis, one of the main public health issues in the region. New drugs and therapeutic approaches give hope of better treatment outcomes. Joint and renewed efforts are needed to obtain a better access to the most effective drugs and new treatment regimens for the resistant form of the disease.
India: Working towards personalised TB treatment (post)
Three major global research centres in India will receive funding coming out of collaboration between the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Department for Biotechnology (DBT), India. The Department for Biotechnology will match the funding provided by UK through MRC and Newton Fund.
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe, 2010–2011 (post)
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UGA researchers discover potential treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (post)
Athens, Ga. - Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a new small molecule drug that may serve as a treatment against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, a form of the disease that cannot be cured with conventional therapies. They describe their findings in a paper published recently in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters.
U.S. Government extends commitment to combat tuberculosis in Ethiopia (post)
New five-year activity will strengthen collaborative effort against drug-resistant TB
XDR-TB in South Africa is largely spread person-to-person, not by failure of drug treatment (post)
The vast majority of people with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) diagnosed in the world’s most extensive outbreak have acquired their infection from another person, not as the result of the failure of treatment for multidrug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (MDR-TB), N Sarita Shah told the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2015) in Seattle, USA, on Wednesday.
New drugs still out of reach for most in India, world TB hotspot (post)
The case of a Mumbai tailor cured of an extremely resistant form of tuberculosis this week has revived debate over a new drug to which the Indian government has limited access, prompting calls for change.
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