Items tagged with Pediatrics
Infectious disease treatment in children: Slow to evolve, impossible to ignore (post)
The pediatric population is one that relies primarily on adults for health advocacy and care, and as such, their protection and medical treatment is an ethical as well as a scientific mandate. Yet despite global improvements in research and disease control, the risk, burden and mortality associated with pediatric infectious diseases remain considerable. “Diseases of poverty,” such as tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS, continue to take a toll on children in the world’s poorest countries.
Time for religious leaders to speak out - No child should die of TB (post)
Statistics about TB in children make shocking reading, especially because TB is preventable and curable. Yet in 2015, 240,000 children died of TB, which is 660 deaths every day, including 40,000 TB deaths among children living with HIV. Eighty per cent of child TB deaths occur in children younger than five. At least 1 million children fall ill with tuberculosis (TB) every year and researchers estimate that as many as 67 million children are infected with TB (latent TB) and are therefore at risk of developing the disease in the future.
New project will dramatically increase pediatric TB prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in Zimbabwe (post)
Harare, 31 May 2018 – The Zimbabwe government in partnership with Unitaid and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) today launched a four-year project to fight tuberculosis among children, a long-underserved group that bears the burden of TB illness and death worldwide. TB, a preventable, curable disease, is the second biggest killer of children in Zimbabwe.
The epidemic we must stop ignoring (post)
Tuberculosis afflicts ten million people every year, and continues to kill more people than any other communicable disease, despite global commitments to eliminate it. But, despite this awareness, TB in children is being systematically ignored, with a quarter-million young lives lost every year.
Neglecting childhood tuberculosis “a human rights violation” (post)
Tuberculosis will be high on the global health agenda in 2018, but tuberculosis in children is often overlooked. Talha Burki reports.
Latent TB treatment: Shorter is better (post)
Game-changing study on treatment of latent TB shows a novel, short therapy is safer and more effective in children and adults than standard therapy.
Study shows children with multidrug-resistant TB can be treated (post)
The results of a large, international systematic review published in the journal PLOS Medicine show that tuberculosis treatment is successful in children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The study was used to inform the World Health Organization guidelines on treatment of MDR-TB in children.
India: TB among children can now be diagnosed in two hours (post)
New Delhi: It may prove to be a major shot in the arms of Health Ministry as the pilot project started to diagnose tuberculosis among the children of the age group up to 2 years has turned out to be a great success. With the help of the new technique, detection of TB among children can now be done in just two-hour, which was earlier not possible.
GCTA Community Chitter Chatter on TB stigma in children (post)
Chinmay Modi, a young man of 25 years from India, living openly with HIV, struggled to get a correct diagnosis for TB for one and a half years before he was finally diagnosed with TB in his lymph nodes when he was 15. He took TB treatment for a year and today he is a strong TB/HIV advocate.
GeneXpert can test stool samples to accurately diagnose TB in children (post)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, October 25, 2018 – Drug susceptible and drug resistant forms of tuberculosis in children can be accurately diagnosed by using existing GeneXpert machines and cartridges to test stool samples for TB bacteria, researchers announced here. Not only can GeneXpert accurately diagnose TB and drug resistance in a fraction of the time it takes to diagnose TB using sputum, Petra de Haas of the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation said, in a study conducted in Indonesia comparing the two samples more TB cases were detected using stool samples than sputum samples.
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