Items tagged with Drug-resistant TB
Molecular epidemiology and clinical characteristics of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a TB referral hospital in China (post)
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India: Government drags feet on ‘effective’ anti-TB drug (post)
MUMBAI: Bedaquiline, the first anti-tuberculosis drug manufactured after rifampicin almost 50 years ago, has been effective in five Indian patients, shows a new study by a city hospital. But it cannot be prescribed to other drug-resistant TB patients because the Indian government, unlike the West and the World Health Organization, has yet to approve its use.
Inconspicuous consumption (post)
While volunteering for the Peace Corps in Ukraine in 2010, I contracted a severe version of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Two years of painful, isolating treatment taught me the vital role social media may play in finally eradicating this disease.
Lithuania hosts a briefing on MDR-TB in Europe for EU member states (post)
On 10 October, prominent speakers were invited to the Lithuanian Permanent Representation to the EU to brief Health Attachés of the different member states’ representations in Brussels on the issue of Tuberculosis and Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Europe. WHO Europe, the ECDC, the STOP TB Partnership, the TB Europe Coalition, the European Commission and 10 member states (France, Estonia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Belgium, Latvia and Lithuania) were present to discuss the topic and potential for future EU action. Here is a summary of the main points that were addressed:
Namibia: Occurrence and clinical management of moderate-to-severe adverse events during drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment: a retrospective cohort study (post)
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Drug-resistant tuberculosis poses global threat, warn doctors (post)
Strains of tuberculosis that are resistant to most of the drugs used to treat them are spreading rapidly across the former Soviet Union and pose a serious global threat, warn doctors.
PHA supplement: Tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis in Eastern Europe: operational research from the SORT IT Programme, 2012–2014 (post)
Public Health Action is The Union's free access, online journal. The journal aims to promote the vision of The Union, Health solutions for the poor, by disseminating new knowledge on health systems and health services for vulnerable groups, with a priority on tuberculosis, lung health, non-communicable diseases and related public health issues.
India: New study highlights DR-TB burden in people living with HIV, level of primary transmission alarming (post)
A new study points to an alarmingly high burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) among HIV-positive patients at antiretroviral therapy (ART) centres, and provides evidence that primary transmission is the cause of DR-TB in as many as one in four newly-diagnosed TB patients.
Correspondence article “Conflict and drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ukraine” just published in The Lancet (post)
The WHO Regional Office TB and M/XDR-TB Control Programme and the Country Office in Ukraine just published a correspondence article in The Lancet. The article, entitled “Conflict and drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ukraine”, highlights the critical health needs with a focus on the TB and MDR-TB situation in the country as a result of the ongoing conflict.
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