Items tagged with Drug-resistant TB
Patient support interventions to improve adherence to drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment: A counselling toolkit (post)
In response to the growing burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in South Africa (SA), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), with local government health departments, piloted a decentralised model of DR-TB care in Khayelitsha, Western Cape Province, in 2007.
Cost–effectiveness of a comprehensive programme for drug-resistant tuberculosis in China (post)
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Wanted: A plan for drug-resistant TB, and funds to make it work (post)
More than 600 physicians and scientists called on President Obama in a letter Tuesday to release a national plan for research and programming needed to fight the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis at home and abroad, and to back the plan with a budget proposal that allots the dollars necessary to effect it.
EECA regional initiative will address drug-resistant TB (post)
One of the grants recently approved by the Global Fund is the first ever regional TB grant in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The EECA is the region with the highest burden of the drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB: Less than 50% of cases have been detected and successfully treated.
WHO publication: Active tuberculosis drug-safety monitoring and management (aDSM) (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently released a consensus document after a meeting on the essential elements for monitoring the safety of anti-TB drugs (aDSM) in Geneva in July 2015.
India: 20 of 26 Sewri hospital staffers with TB have MDR variant (post)
Mumbai: Twenty of the 26 employees of the civic-run Sewri TB Hospital, under treatment for tuberculosis, suffer from the multi-drug-resistant variant, according to civic statistics. Only six are under treatment for regular TB.
Child with drug-resistant TB successfully treated at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center (post)
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center specialists report they have successfully treated and put in remission a 2-year-old, now age 5, with a highly virulent form of tuberculosis known as XDR TB, or extensively drug-resistant TB. The case, researchers say, provides the first detailed account of a young child in the United States diagnosed and treated for XDR TB.
India: 9% children suffering from TB resistant to key drug: Study (post)
CHENNAI: From two deaths every three minutes to having the highest tuberculosis burden in the world, most surveys related to TB in India throw a startling number. And here is one more: Close to 9% of all paediatric tuberculosis patients are resistant to rifampicin, one of the first-line drugs used in the treatment of the infectious disease. This is 6% more than what was previously estimated, a study covering four metros in the country has found.
Fears of drug-resistant TB in Australia after rise in Papua New Guinea cases (post)
There are growing concerns tuberculosis could become untreatable in Australia after a dramatic increase in the number of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases recorded in Papua New Guinea.
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