Items tagged with Pediatrics
ART reduces risk that children with HIV will die from TB (post)
Just like in adult patients, ART reduces the risk that children with HIV will get or die from tuberculosis, according to data from six African countries.
Webinar recording: Overcoming the drug-resistant TB crisis in children and adolescents (post)
To mark World Children’s Day and World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, the World Health Organization conducted an #EndTB webinar on 20 November 2020 to discuss the impact of drug-resistant TB on children, adolescents and their families.
Tereza Kasaeva: Overcoming the drug-resistant TB crisis in children and adolescents (post)
Оn the occasion of World Children's Day and World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Program delivered a special message highlighting the challenges of overcoming the drug-resistant TB crisis in children and adolescents.
Cost-effectiveness of scaling up short course preventive therapy for TB among children across 12 countries (post)
A study published in EClinicalMedicine assessed the cost-effectiveness of household contact investigation for TB treatment and short-course preventive therapy provision for children under 15 years old across 12 high TB burden countries.
TB vaccine may protect newborns against other infectious diseases (post)
The tuberculosis (TB) vaccine Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) could protect newborns against a variety of common infections, such as upper respiratory tract infections, chest infections and diarrhoea, according to a new study in Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The absolute imperative of identifying and notifying cases of TB (post)
As we approach Valentine’s Day let us resolve to be compassionate and kind, spread solidarity and love in our work, ensure that nobody is stigmatized regardless of any consideration and not ostracize patients if they suffer from a communicable diseases like Tuberculosis. Above all let us resolve to speak up, stand up and step up our efforts for a brighter future for our children in a world free of Tuberculosis. And while gearing up efforts in that direction we must not forget the high proportion of our children suffering from Tuberculosis. To identify and cure those children represents the best manifestation of our love for them.
TB preventive therapy for children and adolescents: an emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic (post)
A comment published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health addressed the issue of the provision of TB preventive therapy for all forms of TB as an emergency measure to combat the devastating effect of COVID-19 on TB not only by averting the development of active TB disease and the ensuing morbidity and mortality in the paediatric population but also by easing the strain of overstretched health-care systems.
New research shows how immune response to TB differs in babies (post)
The immune response to tuberculosis (TB) differs in adults and newborn babies due to the way immune cells use energy to kick into gear in a bid to kill the bacteria. This fresh discovery – just published in leading journal, Frontiers in Immunology – offers hope for improving treatments for what remains a deadly disease.
Development of updated WHO guidelines on the management of TB in children and adolescents (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) is convening a Guideline Development Group (GDG) to advise on updates needed to its recommendations on the management of tuberculosis (TB) in children and adolescents.
Researchers develop test that detects childhood TB a year ahead of current screenings (post)
Researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine have developed a highly sensitive blood test that can find traces of the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB) in infants a year before they develop the deadly disease, according to a study published in BMC Medicine.
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