Items tagged with Global TB response
Hope for a more reasoned U.S. approach to global TB (post)
The annual global numbers of TB disease cases and TB deaths have been falling slowly since the 1990s. The numbers of U.S. residents newly diagnosed with TB disease every year have also been falling over the same period. In effect, successful TB treatment has saved millions of lives over that period.
CDC consolidates global TB activities in new global health branch (post)
In an effort to increase coordination and collaboration on tuberculosis activities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and maximize the CDC’s impact on global TB efforts, the agency is consolidating TB and HIV activities under a revamped program in the CDC’s Center for Global Health, changing the Division of Global HIV/AIDS to the Division of Global HIV and TB.
June 2015 issue of the IJTLD now online (post)
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) is the official publication of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union).
Global partnerships key to eradicating TB (post)
Developing vaccines for tuberculosis represents a major global health priority and has been recognized as a critically important strategy to meet the World Health Organization’s ambitious goal of eliminating TB as a global health threat by 2035.
XDR-TB patient in U.S. highlights global reach of infectious disease (post)
If an argument is needed against prioritizing United States medical research dollars simply on the basis of disease burden in the U.S., global health advocates in Washington, DC didn’t have to look any farther this week than the National Institutes of Health campus in Maryland. That’s where a woman who recently flew from India to Chicago and has since been diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is now being treated.
July 2015 issue of the IJTLD now online (post)
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) is the official publication of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union).
What is the millennium development goal on HIV and malaria all about? (post)
The goal aims to reverse the spread of HIV and malaria and achieve universal access to treatment. How has it fared since its launch?
Diabetes — a serious threat to ending TB (post)
Tuberculosis continues to be a major public health challenge, affecting 9 million people and claiming 1.5 million lives annually.
Philanthropists unite to accelerate global fight against tuberculosis with combined $20 million gift to Broad Institute (post)
Cambridge, Mass. June 22nd, 2015 — With deadly drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis on the rise, more than 20 philanthropists from New York and Boston have come together to fund a $20 million project at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to help combat the global epidemic.
June 2015 issue of PHA now online (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.
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