Items tagged with Prevention
Calls for urgent action to address TB prevention deficits among children and household contacts of people affected by TB (post)
IMPAACT4TB welcomes gains in TB prevention among people living with HIV, but calls for urgent action to address TB prevention deficits among children and household contacts of people affected by TB.
Bringing it home: Khayelitsha project shows how a focus on family can boost TB prevention (post)
Tuberculosis preventive therapy is highly effective in preventing TB disease and death, yet only a few people have access to it. Tiyese Jeranji reports in Spotlight on how Médecins Sans Frontières in Khayelitsha (Cape Town, South Africa) is helping TB patients and their contacts access preventive therapy in the comfort of their homes as part of a new family-centred care initiative.
Workshop on TB preventive therapy held in Dimapur (post)
Considering the urgent need for prevention of TB among people living with HIV (PLHIV) and to end TB-related deaths, ARK Foundation along with Dimapur Network of Positive People organized a treatment literacy workshop on TB preventive therapy in Dimapur, Nagaland on 20 January 2022.
Model of new TB vaccine shows its potential impact and value in South Africa and India (post)
Two years of battling COVID-19 has been bad news for tuberculosis (TB) programmes. Respiratory clinicians and researchers have had their time and focus directed elsewhere. And TB has taken advantage. In 2021, the number of TB deaths rose for the first time in over a decade.
WHO #EndTB webinar: TB prevention and care among refugees and other populations in humanitarian settings (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO), the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) will host a special #EndTB webinar on 2 March 2022 to launch an interagency field guide on TB prevention and care among refugees and other populations in humanitarian settings.
TB infection protects mice from developing COVID-19 (post)
In mice, the immune response mounted against tuberculosis prevents them from developing COVID-19, according to a new study by Richard Robinson at The Ohio State University, U.S. and colleagues publishing March 24th in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens.
Report of the WHO technical consultation on innovative clinical trial designs for evaluating new TB preventive treatments (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Programme, in collaboration with University College London and other partners, convened a virtual technical consultation from 15 to 17 September 2021 that focused on innovative clinical trial designs that could be used for evaluating new tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatments (TPTs).
20% of multidrug-resistant TB cases in children could be averted by household testing and treatment (post)
New modelling study suggests that testing household contacts and preventive treatment could avert almost 4,000 deaths in children under 15 globally every year.
New guidelines and medicines poised to boost TB prevention efforts in South Africa (post)
In their current form, South Africa’s TB preventive therapy (TPT) guidelines are out of step with the World Health Organization (WHO)’s guidance on TPT that recommends the use of new, shorter course TPT regimens, as well as providing TPT to all household contacts of people with TB.
The IJTLD Clinical Standards for Lung Health (post)
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) published the first four Clinical Standards for Lung Health.
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