Items tagged with Pediatrics
Where should TB research focus? (post)
At the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting in September 2018, heads of state committed to ending the tuberculosis epidemic by 2030. An agreement was signed at the meeting that promised $2 billion a year for TB research. Infectious Diseases in Children asked two experts — Mario C. Raviglione, FRCP (UK), FERS, Hon RSP (RF), professor of global health at the University of Milan and the Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva, and former director of WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Program, and Lisa V. Adams, MD, associate dean of global health at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth — what research should be a priority in an effort to end the global epidemic of TB in children.
Children with TB: A global public health crisis (post)
WHO estimates that 1 million children become ill with tuberculosis every year, and approximately 230,000 die. Children made up one-tenth of the estimated 10 million people worldwide who developed TB in 2017, but confirming diagnosis in children is challenging, creating critical delays in starting treatment.
Breaking the cycle: Paediatric DR-TB detection, care and treatment in Tajikistan (post)
The Tajik Ministry of Health and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) began a comprehensive paediatric tuberculosis (TB) care programme in 2011. The paediatric TB project in Dushanbe aims to decrease the TB morbidity and mortality rates among children and their family members. In 2013, MSF documented this, producing a report about improving paediatric TB care.
The Union highlights child TB on the International Day of Families (post)
Today, May 15, on the United Nation’s International Day of Families, The Union highlights the urgent call to action against child tuberculosis (TB).
Should European countries screen asylum-seeking children for TB? (post)
Many children seeking asylum in the European Union originate from countries where tuberculosis (TB) infection is prevalent. A new research letter in the European Respiratory Journal investigates whether routinely screening those children for TB is an effective way to protect public health and to make sure that children who are affected are treated and well cared for.
New milestone for children with TB reached as one million treatments of child-friendly medicines are ordered (post)
SYDNEY (June 18, 2019)—TB Alliance today announced that one million treatment courses of child-friendly tuberculosis (TB) medicines have been ordered by 93 countries in the three years since introduction of the products.1 The new medicines, which were first introduced nationally in Kenya in September 2016, are easier for caregivers to administer and for children to take. The announcement took place at the first International Global Health Security Conference in Sydney.
Pediatric immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome common in HIV, TB endemic areas (post)
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) occurs commonly in infants and young children with HIV who are initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) in countries with a high prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis (TB), according to study results published in PLoS One.
Xpert Ultra test offers more rapid diagnosis in pediatric TB (post)
Testing multiple different respiratory specimens with Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra (Ultra) provides a novel and useful strategy for rapid diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis (TB), according to study results published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.1
Results from new trial of the candidate TB vaccine MTBVAC offer hope for control of TB in infants (post)
First trial of a new live attenuated Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine in infants.
TB dropping among US children, adolescents (post)
Pediatric tuberculosis cases in the US have been on a steady decline for at least a decade now, according to findings from a national data analysis.
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