Items tagged with Prevention

RESIST-TB webinar: VQUIN and TB-CHAMP results (post)

RESIST-TB will host a webinar on 11 April 2024 to present results from the two randomized, controlled trials -- VQUIN and TB-CHAMP -- that used levofloxacin for preventive therapy in adult and pediatric household contacts of people with multidrug- and rifampicin-resistant TB (MDR/RR-TB).

1/4/6x24 Mid-campaign report launch webinar - recording now available online (post)

The 1/4/6x24 Campaign and the Stop TB Partnership co-hosted a webinar on 27 March 2024 to launch the Campaign’s new report: Getting Better Faster: Delivering on the Promise of New TB Treatments. The report highlights progress and gaps in scaling up access to shorter, safer TB regimens — one month or once weekly for TB prevention, four months for drug-susceptible TB, and six months for drug-resistant TB — by the end of 2024.

Who should receive preventive treatment for TB? Individuals of all ages with positive skin or blood test (post)

A new study suggests that countries should prioritize treatment for exposed individuals with evidence of TB infection, regardless of age — except in high-burden settings, where all exposed individuals should be considered for treatment.

South Africa: Slow progress after decision to make TB prevention pills more widely available (post)

Besides preventing illness and death, TB preventive treatment (TPT) is estimated to be highly cost-effective. Yet, uptake of TPT is not what it could be in South Africa. Tiyese Jeranji asks how much has changed since the Department of Health last year decided to make TPT much more widely available.

TB preventive therapy: What factors influence treatment discontinuation? (post)

Although time to treatment discontinuation did not significantly differ between patients with latent tuberculosis on the basis of treatment regimen, interruptions in therapy varied by social and demographic factors.

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Guidelines for intensified tuberculosis case-finding and isoniazid preventive therapy for people living with HIV in resource- constrained settings (document)

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Guidelines for Tuberculosis Preventative Therapy among HIV individuals of South Africa (document)

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Tuberculosis Strategic Plan for South Africa 2007-2011 (document)

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National Policy Guidelines for HIV/TB Collaborative Activities (document)

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