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New patient-friendly TB preventive therapy to be rolled out in five high-burden TB countries at affordable price (post)
-- Fixed-dose combination treatments reduce the pill burden from nine to three pills a week for adults and prevent TB in those at highest risk of developing the disease
-- Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe will be the first countries out of a total of 12 to provide the new regimen at a US$15 price thanks to funding from Unitaid, PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
It’s vital to prioritise TB preventive therapy for almost a million South Africans – right now (post)
If tuberculosis is to be eradicated by 2035, enhanced strategies for preventing close contacts of TB patients from developing the disease are urgently needed as an essential service in the healthcare system.
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.
TAG online training course: TB Preventive Treatment | Fundamentals for Activists! (post)
For the third year, Treatment Action Group (TAG), with support from the IMPAACT4TB project, is organizing a self-guided Moodle online training course (2 May - 6 June 2021), TB Preventive Treatment | Fundamentals for Activists!, open to any members of TB civil society and communities. The course equips activists with everything they need to know to advocate for the highest-attainable standard of TB preventive treatment.
Ghana to administer new patient-friendly TB preventive therapy (post)
Fixed-dose combination therapy reduces the weekly pill burden from nine to three for adults and prevents TB in those at highest risk of developing the disease.
Birth region may predict time to TB diagnosis among foreign-born people in US (post)
Researchers found an association between region of birth and time to diagnosis among foreign-born people in the U.S. with tuberculosis, suggesting that where a person was born may predict progression from latent TB to TB disease, they said.
High-level event: Global drive to scale up TB prevention (post)
On 16 June 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) will host a special high-level event to discuss key actions needed at global and country level to scale up TB prevention strategies and drive progress towards achieving the 2022 UN High-Level Meeting target on TB preventive treatment.
Improving availability of patient-friendly TB preventive therapy (post)
August 16, 2021: Global partners working to tackle the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic have announced the latest in a package of measures to increase supply security and availability of a short-course TB preventive therapy (TPT).
Mozambique: Over 3,000 patients under new TB combined preventive therapy (post)
Maputo — 3,413 patients across Mozambique are undertaking the new tuberculosis preventive therapy, coupling strong doses of isoniazid (H) and rifapentine (P), to prevent simple and non-contagious cases from worsening and increasing the number of infected people.
Comparison of 3 preventive TB therapies in patients with HIV infection (post)
Among individuals with HIV infection currently taking antiretroviral therapy (ART), self-administered preventive tuberculosis (TB) therapy with a 3-month course of rifapentine and isoniazid was found to be associated with a significantly increased rate of treatment completion compared with a 6-month course of isoniazid alone, according to results of a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
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