Items tagged with Drug-resistant TB
‘Make it stop’: The tender casualties of drug-resistant tuberculosis (post)
In the remote mountains of South Africa, Matsepo rises at 3 am to start the day. She has important work to do, work which is a matter of life or death. Such an early start is necessary for her to wash, get dressed, and prepare tea before waking her feverish, emaciated 5 year-old granddaughter Ntabaleng. She hoists the fairy-light girl onto her back to begin the four-hour walk to the nearest clinic. Ntabaleng’s own mother cannot do this because she is dead, a victim of the same drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) that is responsible for Matsepo’s daily journey with her precious granddaughter. Ntabaleng must go to the clinic for treatment because she has to receive a daily injection as part of her DR-TB therapy. Although it’s usually difficult for her to even muster the energy to lift her head, she wails as soon as the needle pierces her raw buttocks. “Make it stop grandma,” she sobs, “make it stop.”
India: Anti-TB drug cocktail does not work in 70% of patients, says study (post)
In seven out of every ten patients detected with drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB) in Mumbai, four drugs out of the six-drug cocktail are ineffective, according to a study by doctors at PD Hinduja Hospital in Mahim which said that a new drug regime that looked at a patient’s unique requirements instead of a standard prescription for everyone, was needed to control the disease.
Myanmar: Two new drugs launched ahead of World TB Day (post)
March 23, 2016 - Myanmar will have cause to celebrate World TB Day tomorrow, as health organisations start attacking some of the most difficult-to-cure forms of the disease with two new drugs.
Papua New Guinea: Government invests in high quality laboratory for detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis (post)
March 23, 2016 - The National Department of Health (NDoH), in commemoration of World TB Day, is launching the country’s first laboratory for drug susceptibility testing, enabling in-country detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis instead of outsourcing the same offshore.
Curcumin may help overcome drug-resistant tuberculosis (post)
New research indicates that curcumin--a substance in turmeric that is best known as one of the main components of curry powder--may help fight drug-resistant tuberculosis. In Asia, turmeric is used to treat many health conditions and it has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and perhaps even anticancer properties.
The right dose, the right chance: India's battle with drug-resistant TB (post)
Every Monday Dr. Zarir Udwadia runs a free tuberculosis clinic at P.D. Hinduja hospital in Mumbai, the forefront of India’s drug-resistant epidemic.
Private aid agency in South Korea delivers TB medicines to North Korea (post)
SEOUL, March 25 -- A private aid agency in South Korea said Friday that it has delivered medicines to treat tuberculosis to North Korea, the first humanitarian aid to the North after Pyongyang carried out its fourth nuclear test in January.
The burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea: Results of a large population-based survey (post)
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Mumbai: 60% of Sewri hospital workers have multidrug-resistant TB: study (post)
Mumbai: In a shocking revelation, as many as 60% of healthcare workers at Asia's largest tuberculosis (TB) hospital in Sewri have been diagnosed with the multidrug-resistant form of the disease, according to a latest study done by doctors.
Outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis on Daru Island (post)
The growing crisis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is so serious that tuberculosis specialists have called it a “time bomb”,1 and multiple deadly explosions have already been reported globally.2 On Daru Island in Papua New Guinea, an unprecedented outbreak of MDR-TB is occurring.3
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