Items tagged with Pediatrics

Younger age, coinfection with HIV increases mortality risk for children with TB (post)

Children who do not receive appropriate and timely treatment for tuberculosis, especially those aged younger than 5 years, have an elevated risk for death, according to recent study findings.

Prediction of under-detection of paediatric TB in the Democratic Republic of Congo: experience of six years in the South-Kivu Province (post)

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Study confirms key therapeutic advance for children living with HIV and TB (post)

[Seattle, USA, February 14, 2017] The non-profit research and development organization Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) has released results of a study in South Africa that will make it easier for healthcare workers to treat children living with HIV who are co-infected with tuberculosis (TB). The study, presented as a late-breaker this week at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle, provides essential evidence and data to counter the negative interactions between two critical HIV and TB treatments.

Simple test may predict which children develop severe TB, researcher says (post)

A Stanford investigator and his colleagues found that a screening test for tuberculosis was a good predictor of whether children infected with the bacteria would become sick.

Canadian pediatricians should be wary of TB among Aboriginal children (post)

Pediatricians in Canada should consider tuberculosis disease in children with epidemiologic risk factors and suggestive symptoms or signs of organ involvement, particularly among Aboriginal children, according to a recently published review.

Childhood TB Learning Portal (post)

The Childhood TB Learning Portal offers free interactive online courses in multiple languages including The Union's Childhood TB for Healthcare Workers and the recently developed Childhood MDR-TB for Healthcare Workers, as well as a comprehensive toolbox of childhood TB resources, including those developed in collaboration with the World Health Organization and other stakeholders in tuberculosis control and child health.

Examining the quality of childhood TB diagnosis in Cambodia: a cross-sectional study (post)

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India to see largest rollout of TB drugs this year (post)

Seven years after the World Health Organisation (WHO) approved guidelines to treat tuberculosis in children, India will become the largest country globally to roll out the world's first easily-dissolvable and flavoured TB drugs.

Child-friendly TB tablets to be introduced in India (post)

There is good news for children suffering from tuberculosis as the government has started the rollout of the world's first easily-dissolvable and flavoured drug in five states as part of a pilot programme.

Médecins Sans Frontières TB field research in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan (post)