Items tagged with Drug-resistant TB
Bangladesh: Finding those who are missed (post with simple image)
After the implementation of revolutionary Directly Observed Treatment Strategy (DOTS) for Tuberculosis (TB), Bangladesh has been experiencing a very high rate of cure from TB. However, the country continues to have high burden of TB and considered as one of the 22 countries with highest burden of TB in the world. Experts identified poor detection rate of TB cases as the major challenge to fight TB in this country.
TB still major health concern in Indonesia (post with simple image)
Yulinda Santosa was talking enthusiastically to some people in the room. She was eloquent, cheerful and seemed perfectly healthy. It’s hard to believe that until last year she was still suffering from a serious illness that nearly killed her and forced her to put her life on hold for years.
The Lancet journals: World TB Day media alert (post with simple image)
For World TB Day 2014, The Lancet group publishes a Series of papers to highlight the need for global collaboration to diagnose, treat, and cure people with tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis control needs a complete and patient-centric solution (post with simple image)
A complete and patient-centric solution will not only include care that meets the International Standards for TB Care, but also be delivered with dignity and compassion, grounded in the reality of patients' lives as they navigate the long pathway from symptoms to cure.
TBnet: New consensus reached to help tackle multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB (post with simple image)
The document summarises the current knowledge on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of adults and children with MDR/XDR-TB and their contacts, and provides expert consensus recommendations on questions where scientific evidence is still lacking.
Tuberculosis makes a comeback (post with simple image)
Yerevan, Armenia - In a barren hospital room, Arman lies on a messily made bed as a nurse administers one of two daily antibiotic injections into his forearm. The 35-year-old ex-soldier was admitted nearly 18-months ago, having suffered a relapse of the bacterial lung infection tuberculosis (TB).
South Africans living longer but drug-resistant TB a threat (post with simple image)
Two government reports published in March show that the nation’s health is improving dramatically, but more people are getting sick from forms of tuberculosis that are difficult to treat.
European Voice: New policy report on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (post with simple image)
Report, titled "The fight against tuberculosis", discusses the rising incidence of MDR-TB, the need for more effective treatments, new vaccines and better diagnostics and what needs to be done at a European level to tackle this preventable disease.
TB Europe Coalition: It’s about time the European Union takes responsibility for drug-resistant TB (post with simple image)
With EU elections coming up soon, there is a great opportunity for the new European Institutions to take concrete initiatives on drug-resistant tuberculosis: the only ingredient missing so far is political will.
TB Europe Coalition: Drug resistant tuberculosis a cross border threat: EU must act now! (post with simple image)
The TB Europe Coalition released a call to action urging the European Union to take immediate action against drug resistant tuberculosis, which is a serious cross-border health threat.
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