Items tagged with TB epidemiology
A dose-response relationship of smoking with TB infection: A cross-sectional study among 21008 rural residents in China (post)
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New report shows drug-resistant TB set to increase in four high burden countries (post)
Over the next 20 years, cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) are set to rise in India, the Philippines, Russia, and South Africa - the four countries which already bear the highest burden.
The history of tuberculosis: from the first historical records to the isolation of Koch’s bacillus (post)
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South Africa is making progress against its most deadly disease (post)
South Africa is making progress against tuberculosis (TB) but much more needs to be done. This was the message presented by Dr Nazir Ismail, the head of the Centre for Tuberculosis at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD). He was speaking at the South African Aids Conference in Durban on Wednesday.
TB prevalence stands at 128 per 100,000 in Gambia (post)
Results of the Gambian Survey of Tuberculosis Prevalence in 2016 revealed that 128 in 100,000 people have Tuberculosis, according to a medical report by the internationally-acclaimed Medical Research Council (MRC) in The Gambia.The survey conducted with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Programme (NTLP) of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare showed that the burden of the disease remained high during the period under review.
School and household TB contact investigations in Swaziland: Active TB case finding in a high HIV/TB burden setting (post)
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New Central Asian NGO network for cross-border TB control (post)
On June 6-7 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Central Asia met in a regional workshop in Almaty, Kazakhstan to create a network for tuberculosis (TB) control.
Where health care won’t go: a TB crisis in the Black Belt (post)
An article published in Harper's Magazine discribes a TB outbreak in the United States in Marion, Alabama.
"... Marion, a town of 3,500..., has been grappling with a historic outbreak of a disease that has vanished from worry in much of the United States. Thirty-four active cases have been found; if that doesn’t seem like a lot, consider that the rate of infection — what the World Health Organization uses to determine severity — is almost a hundred times the national average, and higher than the rates in India, Kenya, and Haiti. Nearly 200 more in Marion were discovered to have latent tuberculosis, meaning that they were infected but had not developed active symptoms... "
TB control in New York City: the importance of vulnerable populations (post)
A study published in The Lancet Public Health examined the drivers of historical trends in tuberculosis in New York City between 1950 and 2015, and projected future trends up to 2025.
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